Vishal R.

• Contributed to the design and optimization of a 5nm CPU and memory subsystem, focusing on performance and power efficiency. • Led multi-scenario timing closure, signoff, and ECO flows across various CPU blocks to ensure robust functionality and timing accuracy. • Gained hands-on experience in Static Timing Analysis (STA), including core timing analysis & reporting, graph-based & path-based analysis, SI-crosstalk, and OCV analysis, while assisting in timing feedback creation and constraint validation. • Addressed DRC violations related to max capacitance, max transition, noise, and timing violations (setup & hold) through effective debugging and resolution strategies. • Automated repetitive tasks such as violation analysis and report generation by creating TCL scripts, improving workflow efficiency. • Performed timing correlation between physical implementation (IC Compiler-II) and golden signoff (PrimeTime), identifying and resolving miscorrelation issues by analyzing tool databases. • Developed a TCL script to identify and report bad pin placements at both top-level and hierarchical sub-tiles, enhancing design accuracy. • Worked on power analysis for Clock Tree Synthesis (CTS) and optimization, ensuring power efficiency in high-performance CPU designs. • Monitored weekly power build runs for the 5nm GPU design, tracking design changes and identifying discrepancies to ensure optimal power performance.

•Worked as a part of Radio Frequency Baseband Division Team at National Remote Sensing Centre, Hyderabad, India. •Designed and simulated a conformal X-Band dielectric rod antenna (DRA) with an operational frequency of 8.25 GHz using high-frequency structural simulator (HFSS). •Analyzed the effects of mutual coupling in DRA arrays by simulating at different scan angles. •Conducted a study on metamaterials as a decoupling network and realized them using double split-ring resonators (SRRs) using Ansoft HFSS and MATLAB. •Investigated magnetic resonance of SRRs experimentally and numerically along with the dependence of their geometric parameters on the resonance frequency of SRRs. •Simulated large number of SRR arrays between DRA elements showed a significant reduction in mutual coupling. •Thesis on project title “Electromagnetic Coupling Reduction in Dielectric Rod Antenna Array using Single Negative Magnetic Metamaterial” successfully completed and submitted to NRSC.

Recieved Graduate Merit Scholarship Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.