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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Jülich, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Developed design with soft-core microprocessors to rapidly prototype control-loop algorithms for FPGA-based real-time simulators. Implemented models using High-Level Synthesis designs for RTL co-simulation and.
• Conceptualised heterogenous architecture of control and data-logger soft-cores dedicated to running control algorithms at switching frequency and logging simulation data.
• Developed automation scripts on Linux for code generation, synthesis, and bitstream generation stages.

Kreisfreie Stadt Aachen Area, Germany

• Integrated Xilinx FPGA boards into VILLAS co-simulation platform by designing an architecture built on top of Aurora 8B/10B serial protocol.
• Engineered automation scripts for design generation and bitstream compilation leading to version-agnostic local toolchain use.
• Developed FPGA designs in Verilog/VHDL and bare-metal driver programs in C/C++ for FPGA firmware.

Control And Instrumentation Lab

• Implemented advanced tracking filters in MATLAB, like Distributed Extended Kalman Filter, Shifted Rayleigh Filter, and Sequential Monte Carlo methods, for the Bearings-only Tracking problem.
• Simulated performance of modern filters on real field manoeuvre data from Indian Navy, and prepared comparative study.

Remote

• Built Verilog model of historic EDSAC computer from original but incomplete documentation in collaboration with experts from The National Museum of Computing, UK.
• Programmed and simulated EDSAC architecture and ISA on myStorm Lattice iCE FPGA board using open-source toolchains, like Yosys and iverilog.
• Designed and implemented modified-UART communication protocol to support external embedded I/O interfaces for Hardware-in-Loop application.
• Demonstrated final work product at ChipHack 2017 workshop and presented at ORConf 2017 digital design conference in Hebden Bridge, UK. Recevied full sponsorship.

• Designed unified model for abstraction of status registers, configuration bits, and memory protected areas in SPI Flash-memory chips across diverse chip manufacturers.
• Developed CLI to expose new features, and tested infrastructure using Raspberry Pi and microcontroller development board.

Master Of Science - M.Sc.

Bachelor Of Technology - B.Tech.

Class Xii Maharashtra Higher Secondary Certificate

Class X Central Board Of Secondary Education