Dhayalan Vadivelu

About Dhayalan Vadivelu

Specialized expertise in the field of post-silicon validation, debug & failure analysis, and production- Team Leadership as well as Individual contributor. Direct hands-on engineering experience in post-silicon validation, HW board review, system integration debug, bring up, prototyping boards, production testing, and power/signal integrity. Experience in design and development of automation frameworks and automation testing strategies in the post-silicon validation domain from scratch. 20+years of hands-on experience in bring-up and validation of complex SoCs, did bring up of more than 20 SOC\'s of Smart Phone, Audio, Video and Camera based applications. Experience in bring up, power and performance analysis of CPU, GPU and Micro controllers. Expertise in Mixed Signal IPs, Power Management ICs, Clock, ADC, DAC and Low power optimization Several years of hand in experience with Power and performance, PDN analysis and PVT Characterization. Excellent analytical, debugging, problem-solving, root-cause analysis and team player with excellent technical skills, dedicated to creating solutions. Expertise in building and managing post-silicon validation engineering teams, project planning, budgeting, execution, development flows and methodologies. Pre-silicon validation using Xilinx/Altera FPGA board and Cadence Palladium emulator accelerators Using Cadence Emulators tools for RTL-level /Gate-level design Verification. System level validation on Pre and Post silicon environment. Low Power optimization and measurement for the multi-core Qualcomm\'s Snapdragon SOC’s. ands-on experience in using lab Equipment like Multi meter, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, Signal generators, Spectrum Analyzer, Bus Protocol Analyzers, JTAG debuggers. Expertized Industry standard memory devices Media cards like MMC/eMMC, SD, SDIO, Memory Stick/Pro, Compact Flash and SATA Hard Drives. Developing low-level drivers for SPI, I2C based Serial Flash devices E²PROM, Data Flash and other Flash devices like NAND, NOR memories. Programming experience with Qualcomm\'s and TI’s Multi channel Power Management Units (PMIC) Developing low drivers for various LCDs, OLED and Imaging sensors. Experience with Audio CODEC’s such as AIC32, AIC3254. ADC Characterizations, Current Sensors, Temperature Sensors and Voltage Sensors. Experience in low level device drivers, Firmware development for Smart phones, Camera Interface modules. Power and performance optimization of CPU and GPU benchmarks Android based Smart phones.

Experience

1. Senior Staff Engineer

   高通

   Oct 2021 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

Education

• Bharathidasan University

  MCA, Computer Science and Application

  1994 — 1997

Skills

• Device Driver
• Embedded Systems
• System on a Chip (Soc)
• Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (Asic)
• Soc
• Rtos
• Silicon Validation
• Low Power Systems
• Post Silicon Validation
• Device Drivers
• Vlsi
• Rtl Design
• Debugging
• C
• Programming
• Semiconductors
• Arm Architecture
• Digital Signal Processors
• Firmware
• Serial Ata (Sata)
• Verilog
• Embedded Software
• Asic
• Arm