Nilam Sachan

CEO

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India22 yrs 10 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years of experience in semiconductor industry.
  • Led a team of 12 engineers across multiple product areas.
  • Awarded 2 US patents and the Synopsys ACE award 2023.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor Architect with extensive experience in RTL design and DFT automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product DevelopmentProject ManagementArchitectural DesignDftTechnical LeadershipSystemcAlgorithm DevelopmentC++Data Structures

Other Skills

Cross-functional Team LeadershipCommunicationAttention to DetailArchitectureInterpersonal CommunicationCross-Cultural Communication SkillsCross-functional CoordinationDistributed Team ManagementTechnology IntegrationProblem SolvingTeam LeadershipProduct ServiceCross-team CollaborationProduct DeliveryTeam Management

About

Experienced RTL Restructuring, SoC Integration, IP-Packaging and RTL-DFT Product Development Architect with 20+ years of proven success in the semiconductor industry. Specializes in digital design optimization, system-on-chip (SoC) integration, DFT Scan/memory insertion at RTL, and IP packaging for high-performance and low-power applications. Adept at managing complex projects, leading cross-functional teams, and delivering innovative solutions that drive product success. Currently leading geographically dispersed team of 12 young engineers, managing/leading 3 different product areas. Awarded 2(US) patents Won Synopsys ACE award 2023 Paper on Faster SoC assembly ATC - 2010

Experience

22 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Synopsys inc

2 roles

Senior Manager R&D

Promoted

Dec 2019Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Responsible for building and scaling RTL Restructuring, RTL editing & feedthrough insertion flow inside RTLA. Leading geographically dispersed team of 12 young engineers, Owning 3 different product areas. Enabling multiple innovations by providing platform for RTL generation capability which is helping in faster design closures as lengthy iterations get reduced at RTL level. Solving many high value problems and working in different product areas leading to faster design turnaround. We developed & delivered multiple core flows/features which are used by many customers in production flows.
  • Automatic alteration of design hierarchies in RTL for better PPA(Power, Performance and Area).
  • end-2-end flow for LEC post RTL restructuring
  • built unique solution for functional safety Dual-Core-Lock-Step(DCLS) at RTL
  • built solution for isolation logic insertion at RTL
  • Developed industry first solution of automatic restructuring of Verilog configurations to keep them sync with restructured RTL
  • Developed many key features of port optimizations and bus-splitting at RTL leading to physical area improvement
Product DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipProject ManagementArchitectural DesignCommunicationAttention to Detail+14

R&D Engineer, Staff

Aug 2015Dec 2019 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India · On-site

  • Actively participated in the technology overlap, gap analysis between Synopsys and Atrenta products for building new flows/products.
  • Technically lead high performing team of 5-7 members
  • managed/contributed/lead following products
  • 1)RTLA Product (Simply Better RTL)
  • The Synopsys RTL Architect product represents the industry’s first physically-aware RTL analysis, exploration, and optimization system with signoff technology integration.
  • Architected and built flow from scratch for bringing much needed differentiation of PPA aware RTL restructuring solution for making design closure. Complete technology integration was single handedly done by me including the product packaging/release and flow validations etc.
  • Built the flow for RTL editing and physical aware feed-through insertion flow in RTL.
  • 2)TestMAX Manager(Comprehensive RTL Integration Environment for Design-For-Test (DFT))
  • Synopsys TestMAX Manager extends DFT automation to the RTL implementation phase to provide a comprehensive RTL integration flow while extending into the system and field-testing domain. TestMAX Manager provides a Tcl based framework for the interoperability of the Synopsys TestMAX family of products, enabling flow automation and customization along with design introspection and editing capability.
  • Architected and built product flow from scratch for this product for DFT IP insertion, hookup and DFT inserted RTL generation and validation.
  • Architected and built product flow from scratch for this product for pre-post DFT RTL modifications and validation.
  • 3) GenSys Product (RTL Restructuring and Design Assembly)
  • Synopsys GenSys product provides an environment to enable “correct-by-construction” RTL design assembly and includes management and modification tools for RTL restructuring that enables improved productivity for front-end designers.
  • Supported standalone customers and releases
  • Integrated core technologies from GenSys into RTLA & TestMAX Managers to bring unique differentiation
Architectural DesignCommunicationAttention to DetailHands-on Technical LeadershipArchitectureTeamwork+10

Atrenta

5 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2011Aug 2015 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Managed/lead/contributed to the development of GenSys product from scratch.
  • GenSys : A platform tool for RTL Restructuring, Derivative design, SoC Integration and IP Packaging
  • Helped during pre/post sales activities for GenSys which includes presentations, demonstrations, evaluations, support at various customer sites across the globe. Visited TI-Nice, France in 2007 & 2008 for supporting customers in setting up product in their flows
  • Developed core algorithms for RTL restructuring(group/ungroup/reparent)
  • Developed regex based infra to make auto-connections for faster SoC assembly
  • Developed expression tree conversions algorithms from various input formats (Verilog/VHDL<=>Tcl<=>Perl<=> xpath)
  • Canonical XML save/restore algorithm extendable to any additional schemas
  • Added IPXACT (1.2, 1.4, 1.5, IEEE 1685-2009) support from scratch in GenSys platform
  • Developed XML source code viewer/editor/validator and cross-probe support in GenSys platform
Python (Programming Language)SystemVerilogCommunicationAttention to DetailTechnical LeadershipArchitecture+21

Project Leader

Oct 2008Dec 2011 · 3 yrs 2 mos

CommunicationAttention to DetailArchitectureProblem SolvingProduct ServiceProduct Delivery

Lead Engg.

Promoted

Apr 2007Oct 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

CommunicationAttention to DetailArchitectureProblem SolvingProduct Service

Senior Software Engg.

Apr 2006Apr 2007 · 1 yr

  • Contributed for product(1Team:System) development for SystemC linting containing more than 250 rules. Developed multiple rules/policies covering best practices for SystemC coding guidelines, LRM etc. Developed lexical parser needed for multiple rules.
GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)CommunicationAttention to DetailLexical SemanticsArchitectureSystemC+7

Software Engg.

May 2005Apr 2006 · 11 mos

  • Contributed for product(1Team:Embedded) development for C/C++ linting containing more that 300 rules. Developed multiple rules/policies covering best coding practices for C/C++ code for wide range of applications mainly used by semiconductor leaders like TI etc. Developed custom policy framework where customers could customize the checks as per their requirement without dependency on new executable to be shipped for minor enhancements.
Data StructuresGNU Compiler Collection (GCC)CCommunicationAttention to DetailArchitecture+9

Electronics and radar development establishment, defence research and development organisation

Scientist 'B'

Aug 2003May 2005 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Created Radar trajectory simulator in VB.NET. Used VxWorks RTOS and embedded environment for real time simulation
Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET)CommunicationAttention to DetailArchitectureVxWorks

Education

Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 1999Jan 2003

MVIC, Lucknow

10+2

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