Mallikarjuna Rao

About Mallikarjuna Rao

More than 8 years experience in semiconductor/VLSI industry. With 6 years EDA/CAD specialization, 2 years of functional verification and design/services experienceArea of Specialities-Front end CAD flow development Scripting in Perl & TCLFormal verification Logic Equivalency checkingAutomation of ECO implementation Complete Low power verification from RTL to gate, post routeLow Power aware equivalence checkingPower intent languages (CPF)Synthesis Functional verification using OVM/UVMESL modeling flows Register testing automationIPXACT for register automationRTL linting

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Qualcomm

   Dec 2025 — Present

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

  Master of Technology (M.Tech.), VLSI

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Power Management
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Eda
• Cad
• Rtl Coding
• Rtl Design
• Ncsim
• Logic Synthesis
• Fpga
• Asic
• Systemverilog
• Amba Ahb
• Low-Power Design
• Arm
• Verilog
• Cmos
• Debugging
• Semiconductors
• Timing Closure
• Vhdl
• Modelsim
• Soc
• Static Timing Analysis
• Specman
• Vlsi
• Dft
• Cadence
• Ic
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Open Verification Methodology
• Functional Verification
• Formal Verification
• Physical Design
• Tcl
• Analog
• Usb
• Primetime