gautam govardan

santa clara, california

About

A Digital Hardware Engineer in Wireless Division at Apple

Country

united states

City

santa clara

Industry

computer hardware

Skill

embedded systems, microcontrollers, c, verilog, vhdl, matlab, c++, debugging, python, programming, fpga, digital signal processors, labview, electronics, mixed signal, eclipse, microsoft office, microsoft excel, microsoft word, customer service, xilinx ise, cadence virtuoso, android development, powerpoint, android application development, visual studio, cuda, openmp, perforce, os x, ubuntu, soldering, eagle pcb

Experience

santa clara, california

teaching assistant

university of wisconsin-madison

2014-8 - 2014-12 · 5 mos

As a teaching assistant for micro controllers lab, I tutored the undergraduate electrical engineering students to develop hardware and firmware for Cortex M3 based microcontroller and interface with peripherals such as graphics LCD, LEDs and Zigbee wireless module

engineering intern

thalchemy corporation

2014-6 - 2014-12 · 7 mos

* As a Engineering Intern * Developed firmware for sensor hub for continuous sensor monitoring of motion MEMS sensors on Cortex M4 device * Implemented motion detection algorithms on the sensor hub and optimized the firmware for low power operation

applications engineer

cypress semiconductor corporation

2010-7 - 2013-7 · 3 yrs 1 mo

* As an Applications Engineer: * Developed low-power system level designs using the analog, digital and communication blocks of Programmable System on Chip (PSoC) * Developed custom IPs such as RC5 decoder for IR TV remote for the on-chip PLDs of PSoC * Developed system level applications using communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, UART and USB * Performed functional validation of hard IPs such as DMA and GPIO ports with the NI-DAQ setup using Python scripting * Documented and published application notes and example projects on analog and digital blocks

student intern

national semiconductor

2008-7 - 2008-11 · 5 mos

As a Student Intern, worked on developing a precision weighing scale using a 24-bit delta-sigma analog to digital converter interfaced to a load cell

hardware engineering intern

apple

2015-1 - 2015-8 · 8 mos

* As a hardware intern in iPhone team * Designed system for testing components to be used in future products, which involved using the communication protocols USB, I2C and I2S. Laid out schematics for the design, developed firmware for the USB devices and wrote scripts for automating the test setup * Developed a stand-alone embedded platform for internal testing application using Cortex M4 processor and deployed RTOS for scheduling of tasks * Validated the functionality of the hardware blocks for upcoming product