Nikhil Surdi

About Nikhil Surdi

A VLSI design engineer with a Master\'s degree and 9+ years of experience in the semiconductor industry. Experience includes defining the specifications, architecture, micro-architecture, integration and RTL design for networking SoC and IPs like Ethernet PCS, RS & Firecode FECs, Interlaken, USB and PCI Express. Worked as design engineer for HBM(DDR) and NAND Flash (ONFI, Toggle) memory protocols which includes FPGA design and validation.I am a coding enthusiast. Learned PERL for automation and learned VBA for mathematical modelling of the FECs and analyzing impact of various IP configurations on latency & gate count. Also learning Chisel (A Scala based HDL) through online courses.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Design Engineer

   Cadence

   Nov 2025 — Present · Pune, IN

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

  Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Electronic systems

  2008 — 2011

• Maharashtra Institute of Technology

  B.E., Electronics and Tele-communication

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Verilog
• Pcie
• Semiconductors
• Toggle
• Nand Flash
• Microelectronics
• Rtl Design
• Vlsi
• Static Timing Analysis
• Asic
• Logic Synthesis