Prashanth Paramahans

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Url: http://students.iiit.ac.in/~manik
E-mail: manik@research.iiit.ac.in
Contact No: +91 9908297385

Career objective
Design, research and development in the areas of Analog Desgin and Low power ASIC design.

Education

• MS by Research (VLSI), IIIT-Hyderabad, July, 2009 (expected); CGPA: 7.8
• BE (Electronics and Communication), Vasavi College of Engineering (affliated to Osmania University),Hyderabad, May 2007, 80%
• Intermediate, Sri Chaitanya Jr. College (BIE),Hyderabad, 2003, 91.2%
• Class 10, St. Mary's High School,Hyderabad 2001, 83.67%

Academic & Research Experience

• April-2009 to present: Graduate Research Assistant, IIIT-H. Thesis Supervisor Prof. M. Satyam.

Primary Research & MS Thesis

• Researched on Adiabatic/charge-Recovery based Digital Circuits.The work was mostly concerned with finding new circuit architectures for lowering the power consumption of Basic Adiabatic gates.
• Proposed a Non-Differential input, Single clock powered Adiabatic logic family for low power applications.

Academic Achievements & Professional Memberships

• Secured 98.6 percentile in GATE.
• Received full tuition fee waiver for all semesters of MS by Research at IIIT-H.
• Teaching Assistant for Basic Electronic Circuits,Analog and Mixed Signal IC design and VLSI Design courses.
• Conducted practical sessions for Full Custom IC layout and Design.

Course work
Analog & Mixed Signal IC Design,Adaptive Signal Processing,Computer Architecture, Digital Design using HDLs ,CMOS RF IC Design.

Other Areas of Interest
Semiconductor device Modelling,Analog IC Design & layout, Memory Design, Other Low power design techniques.

Computer Skills

• Transistor level simulators  : - SPICE ( Hspice, Tspice etc),Cadence SPECTRE
• RF Circuit Simulators  : - Agilent ADS, Synopsys HSPICERF
• IC Layout Tools  : - Tanner L-Edit,Cadence Virtuoso, Synopsys Cosmos LE
• HDLs used and related tools  : -Verilog(Synopsys VCS,Design Compiler),VHDL(ModelSim,Xilinx ISE )
• Programming Languages Used  : - C/C++
• Architectural Simulator Used  : - SimpleScalar.
• OS platforms Used  : - UNIX (Linux), Windows.

Projects

• Design of a Low Noise Amplifier for Bluetooth frequency range.
  August-2008 December-2008 Course project in CMOS RF IC Design; The project involved the Analysis and Design of a low noise amplifier for bluetooth applications.The design was optimised for standard Noise level requirements for Bluetooth.
• Subthreshold Operation of MOS devices
  august 2007 – December 2007
  Course project in Analog & Mixed signal IC Design;Studied the operation of MOSFET in weak inversion region (subthreshold) and designed small digital modules that use the MOS device in weak inversion.
• Automatic Audio level controller for a public address System
  December 2006 – March2007
  B.E Project : The project involved the design of an automatic audio level control system for maintaining optimum loudness level of a public adress system used in any given space. The Design and Simulation was done on MATLAB.