Sundaram Dodia

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 4 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in ARM-based Mobile SOC hardware emulation.
Proficient in FPGA emulation and validation techniques.
Strong background in graphics system validation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Validation Engineer with expertise in ARM and FPGA technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

EmulationArmFpga EmulationValidationVerificationSilicon Validation

Other Skills

Mobile SOCMultimediaModem coresSCEMIDPIJTAGUVMHardware accelerationTestbenchGraphics architectureCVerilogH.264MPEG2Silicon Debug

About

 Solid experience of ARM based Mobile SOC hardware Emulation\SIMXL\Validation Environment  SoC prototyping on Synopsys/Mentor Graphics emulation platforms for full SoC, Multimedia and Modem cores  Good understanding of SCEMI and DPI based transactor design and its implementation on Emulation  Good understanding of JTAG based ICE test environment on ARM based SoC architecture  Highly competitive and always seeking opportunities to enhance my skills by working on cutting edge Technologies

Experience

13 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Qualcomm

4 roles

Senior Staff Manager - Infra IP/Memory subsystem

Promoted

Nov 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 7 mos · Banalore India

Staff Engineer

Nov 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

Lead Engineer , Sr FPGA Emulation

Jul 2017 – Oct 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

SOC Verification acceleration & ICE model building for Mentor Veloce Emulation platform

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

This activity involves FPGA Emulation of Multi Million SoCs , creating SCEMI & DPI based transactor interface between design and testbench, running performance tests in TBX flow. Similarly enabled VI/ICE builds with Physical & Virtual JTAG Interface for validation/software tests.

FPGA EmulationSCEMIDPIJTAGValidation

Synopsys inc

Emulation Engineer

Jul 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore Area, India

Deployment of Synopsys verification group solutions in customer's SOCs. Primarily Mobile SOCs based on ARM Microprocessors, Multimedia subsystem and Modem cores.

ARMMobile SOCEmulationValidationMultimediaModem cores

Emupro consulting pvt ltd

Design Emulation Engineer

Jan 2014 – Jul 2014 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Hardware acceleration testbench from UVM based verification environment

UVMHardware accelerationTestbenchVerification

Intel corporation\wipro technologies

2 roles

Silicon System Validation Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2011 – Dec 2013 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Project: Graphics System Validation team (Pre Silicon Emulation and Post Silicon Validation) for Intel's next generation integrated graphics device.
Intel Corporation --Bangalore
GPU System Validation of Graphics pipeline:-
Responsibilities includes Test Execution, Failure debug in Pre Silicon and post silicon Validation Which Involves validating 3D,Media sub-system (VC1, AVC, MPEG2, and H.264), and Validation environment improvements.
Skills: Graphics architecture, C, Basics of Ruby Scripting, Verilog, H.264, MPEG2, FPGA Emulation, Silicon Debug

Graphics architectureCVerilogH.264MPEG2FPGA Emulation+2