VLSI, Software, Prog Mgmt and IP Legal matters with two plus decades of exp. M. Tech CS IIT Kanpur, Masters in Business Law (MBL), National Law School (NLSIU), Exec MBA, IIM Kolkata, Reg. Patent agent VLSI Front-End:SoC architectural analysis and microarchitecture development, RTL design in Verilog, SystemVerilog, Verification in HDL, HVL using UVM, OVM, Testbench design and implementation; Automation in TCL, Perl & shell for build and regression; Low power methodologies; Formal equivalence; IP design and chip-top level integration, DFT, IO padring, PCI-Express, USB and other IO controllers, Digital Imaging pipeline, DSP cores, ARM (R4), HDMI, AXI/APB, HyperTransport, DRAM, SRAM and XD. Sensor mechanical control. VLSI Synthesis and Physical Design:ASIC and server synthesis, STA, ECO; Floorplanning, IO & Power planning, IR drop analysis, Placement, Global and Detail Route, CTS, DFM/DFY, signoff, traditional and advanced node (3D FET) designs, DRC/LVS; PDK and Techfiles (LEF/TLU+/QRC). Experienced in EDI, ICC and IBM PD (ChipBench, PDS, MAR, RAPIDS); Std cell design, Cadence Virtuoso, Process variation & SSTA.FPGA and Emulation:Multi-FPGA based full chip and full-system emulation. FPGA synthesis, P&R and bitfile programming in Xilinx platform.EDA:Expertise in industry standard EDA tools in front-end & back-end designs. Experienced in EDA algorithms, specifically in physical design domain – including floorplanning, placement, routing etc.Software:OO software architecture and development, Agile methods. C/C++/Java, RAD. Cloud stack knowledge of propitiatory & open cloud standards; OpenNLP, UIMA; PaaS, IaaS systems; SOA, RIA, JSON, RDBMS, Exposure with WebSphere, UML, Eclipse, Spring, Ant, Maven, JUnit. Design patterns for architecture and middleware. Virtualization and hypervisors. Data-warehouse and OLTP. Firmware:Firmware development, device drivers for USB and other protocols, board bringup; RTOS; OS internals – Linux, x86 assembly.Management;Completed EPBM from IIM Calcutta on with subjects including strategy, marketing, finance, HR and ops etc. Studied and practiced PMI/PMP. Focused on quality with formal training in Six-Sigma Black Belt.