Yash Khatavkar Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, California, United States

Designing tools, analyzing waveforms, building tests and environments to facilitate the verification of the Tachyum Prodigy.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Worked with the nanotechnology lab to help facilitate the construction of novel perovskite solar cell devices.In my time at the lab I have undertaken multiple projects to help facilitate FES depositions and learn more about semiconductor manufacturing.Some projects I have undertaken include:Homogenous heating surface,• Rebuilt an inefficiently built homogenous heating surface by researching the thermodynamic properties of various materials to reduce the maximum temperature differential from any two points from 5% to less than 1% while reducing temperature loss by 25%. In addition, built and tuned a PID control circuit for effective operation to be used in nanofilm depositions.2D-Gantry• Designed and constructed a 2D gantry for precision depositions of nanofilms. Programmed and configured stepper motors for precise motor control to ensure even heat distribution across deposited area for precise crystalline structure growth.Perovskite Testing Framework• Constructed a testing framework for the efficient testing of novel perovskite solar cell devices created through FFES deposition aimed to prevent damage to the low MOHs rated contacts.FES Nozzle Optimization• Prototyped and Designed a new FES nozzle which aims to reduce jet climbing and increase deposition uniformity.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

• Selectively incorporated necessary components of the processor for a limited instruction set to reduce area and power consumption for maximizing vehicle performance.• Prototyped and developed reduced instruction set RISC processor as well a comprehensive set of testbench files for the verification of the functionality of the necessary ISA. • This processor was then pipelined to optimize performance through processor parallelization while implementing Branch prediction to minimize cycles/instructions. Comprehensive timing analysis was conducted to avoid trap states.