Makarand Mijar

About Makarand Mijar

Extensive Product-Development Experience in Electronics-Hardware since 2010.Currently into Systems Engineering Profile for Power-Management ICs used in Smartphones, Laptops, Smartwatches & other IoT devicesAlso serving roles for Technical Product Lead + People ManagerWork Profile- Rich experience in Post-Silicon Validation of various Analog/Digital IPs (Power-ON/Reset Controller, embedded processor, IC Interfaces, Voltage-Regulators, Clocks, GPIOs, etc) within complex multi-functional Power-Management ICs (PMICs)- Solid command over PMIC functionality/feature-support useful for Integration into any product/Chipset- Good grasp of Overall Chipset Architecture, HW/FW/SW feature partitioning, Debug-tools support & limitations- Clear understanding of VLSI Product Conceptualization to Commercialization Process, Schedules - and sound managerial experience in assigning resources, allocating bandwidth & prioritizing tasks- Past experience in Front-End design-cycle for ASIC Flow & complete FPGA-Flow: involving architecture-design, Verilog-RTL coding, intensive block/top/system-level simulations, IO-Planning, synthesis, porting, area fitting, timing closure, hardware testing, software-release, support and bug fixing- Expertise in Automation for Post-Si Hardware-Validation using LabVIEW, VB, C#, F#- Experience in Embedded Hardware Design for Real-Time Digital interfacing and Control of Analog Systems, with stability and performance analysis. Domain Knowledge-VLSI – Power-Management, ASIC/FPGA FlowsNetworking - L2 Ethernet, VLAN based SwitchingRoles-Systems - Complex Multi-Chip interaction for various Smartphone/IoT applicationsPost-Si Validation - Analog/Digital IPs, PCBs, Extensive BU (Bring-Up) SupportTechnical Skillset-SW-Programming: Verilog, VB, C#, F#, PERL, SHELL-Script, LabVIEW, Java, MATLAB, Assembly LanguageHW-Tools: Oscilloscope (various advanced functions), Multimeters, Power-Supplies, Electronic Current-Loads, Function Generators

Experience

1. Engineer, Sr Staff Mgr

   Qualcomm

   Dec 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   PMIC HW/SW Systems Specification & New feature/use-case support

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  M.Tech., Power Electronics

  2009 — 2010

• Fergusson College

  Higher Secondary Certificate, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Electronics, English

  2002 — 2004

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  B.Tech., Electrical Engineering

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• X86 Assembly
• Hardware Architecture
• Java
• Very-Large-Scale Integration (Vlsi)
• Analog
• Rtl Design
• C
• Vlsi
• Perl
• Verilog
• Matlab
• Vbscript
• Shell Scripting