Gopalakrishnan Vijayakumar Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Working on AR products.

Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Nl

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

♦ Responsible for firmware design, development, debugging, performance optimization, pre-silicon validation and post silicon chip bring-up for 802.11 Wi-Fi System-on-Chip (ARM microcontroller running ThreadX RTOS) * Designed and implemented firmware for transmit power control, RF access drivers, RF/Baseband calibrations, antenna configuration, SPI EEPROM/Flash drivers and calibration data processing. * Debugged and root-caused, complex systemic performance and interoperability issues in the areas like USB driver, MAC data path, PHY calibration, digital pre-distortion for power amplifier, pre-fetch unit (PFU), DFS, etc. * Optimized performance for improving UDP/TCP throughput numbers * Involved in low power and power save firmware design and implementation * Completely redesigned the common hardware firmware initialization which are shared between Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in combo chip-set.♦ Technical lead for managing manufacturing (MFG) Wi-Fi firmware for all Marvell Wi-Fi client chipset (32-bit ARM Cortex M/R running ThreadX RTOS) which is used for PHY/MAC/SOC validation, Wi-Fi TX and RX performance test, manufacturing line calibration process and design verification test across temperature * Architected the overall MFG firmware framework for new chipset. * Mentored and managed the design/implementation of incoming new feature requests with internal team members. * Managed the MFG firmware releases to external customers and external Marvell teams. * Co-ordinated with MFG QA leads, MFG software GUI tool leads and applications engineering team for new feature requests, customer issues and customer failure analysis. * Experienced in ‘The Project Success Method’ for project management.♦ Managed the overall MFG Client software program with the leads from QA team, software GUI tools team, Applications Engineering team and Systems/PHY validation team.

San Jose, Ca, Us

♦ Provided application level support to customers using Cypress products which included creating reference designs, schematic reviews, code examples, providing firmware solutions, debugging customer application firmware and host software. * Worked on 8051/ARM cortex-based microcontrollers, system-on-chip designs based on analog, digital and sensor circuits, complete USB portfolio including host, hub, transceiver and peripheral controller, other communication protocols like I2C, SPI and UART.* Designed and implemented reference design for USB Webcam and Fingerprint scanner using Cypress USB controller. This low-cost solution helped in design win worth of $149,000 per year (C Firmware, Schematic, I2C, Image Sensor)* Developed firmware for USB HID (Human Interface Device) mouse and keyboard using 8051 based USB controller (C)* Designed and implemented reference design to enable USB connectivity for FPGA based designs (Firmware in C for 8051 based Cypress USB Controller)* Created firmware and GUI for High Speed USB Data acquisition system (C Firmware, VC++, DMA)* Developed reference design for a Glucose Meter iPod Accessory on ARM Cortex M3-based Cypress Programmable System-on-Chip (PSoC) with an example iPod app to communicate with the accessory (C Firmware, Apple iOS SDK)♦ Managed the World-wide USB Applications Engineering Support team of up to 5 direct reports.♦ Responsible for Employee recruitment, coaching and development in Cypress USB product applications and technical problem solving♦ Authored several articles on Cypress USB controller and Cypress USB driver libraries 1. INTEGRATING USB IN IMAGE SENSING APPLICATIONS 2. INTEGRATING HIGH SPEED USB FUNCTIONALITY FOR FPGA- AND ASIC-BASED DESIGNS.

San Jose, Ca, Us

♦ Developed and assisted customer applications based on a wide range of Cypress products including FX2LP – USB peripheral controller, PSoC1, PSoC3 and PSoC5 – Programmable System on Chip.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

♦ Automated batch jobs using scripts and contributed to the unit and integration testing.♦ Attained high credentials with a GPA of 5/5 in software training (C and C++).

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Engineering

B.E, Electronics And Communications