Arvind Nataraj Sivasankar

CPU Verification Engineer @ Qualcomm

About

I am currently a Senior CPU Engineer at Qualcomm Nuvia. I completed my M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering(Aug 2021- Dec 2022) at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, specializing in Computer Architecture & VLSI. I interned at Apple's GPU Design Verification team during summer '22. I have 3 years of experience working as a Design Verification engineer.

Country

United States

City

Atlanta

Industry

Computer Hardware

Skill

Functional Verification, SystemVerilog, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), Project Management, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI), Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), System on a Chip (SoC), C, Microsoft Excel, C++, Embedded Systems, Embedded C, Matlab, Python, Verilog, Assertion Based Verification, Computer Architecture, SystemVerilog Assertions, Synopsys VCS

Experience

CPU Verification Engineer

Qualcomm

2023-2 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

Santa Clara, California, United States

GPU Design Verification Intern

Apple

2022-5 - 2022-8 · 4 mos

Orlando, Florida, United States

Design Verification Engineer

Qualcomm

2018-7 - 2021-6 · 3 yrs

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Worked on functional verification of sub-blocks like buses, registers, interrupts, timeout slave. • Developed test plans, tests for verification(including SystemVerilog Assertions), and achieved coverage closure. • Involved in constrained random bus verification and gained knowledge of AMBA bus protocols(AHB,AXI,APB). • Developed Python scripts to automate constraint generation for bus matrix verification, which replaced the need to manually write constraints for test cases, saving time by 70% and avoiding manual errors. • Added several new register testing flavors which discovered a number of key design bugs.

Summer Intern

Analog Devices

2017-5 - 2017-7 · 3 mos

Bangalore

• Designed an LCD/RF add-on board(PCB) for MCU COG-ADuCM3029 and developed its driver software. • Involved in a smart farming IoT project - interfaced an add on board containing temperature, humidity, light sensors with ADuCM3029 and calculated parameters, providing details about crop health and its environment.

Summer Intern

Analog Devices

2016-5 - 2016-7 · 3 mos

Bangalore, India

• Worked on an IoT project aimed at low power air quality assessment, particularly measurement of Carbon Monoxide(CO) and Particulate matter(PM2.5) concentration levels in air using gas sensors. • Interfaced gas sensors with MCU ADuCM3029, optimized processor current for low power application.