Nikhila Chandrashekhar

About Nikhila Chandrashekhar

Nikhila is a ASIC Design Verification Engineer at SanDisk Corporation in the Enterprise SSD Solutions team. She is responsible for Verification of various Top level modules, including several IPs in the 3d nand BiCS memory controller Snowbird. She has a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering (VLSI) from the University of Southern California. She has formerly worked as an intern in the Enterprise Storage Solutions team at SanDisk, and has interned at various branches of Bosch Ltd. With this experience under her belt, she possesses the right technical skills and functional expertise to be a productive and contributing member in the VLSI industry.As a designer and verification engineer, she can comprehend a problem well and come with up with creative solutions to solve it. She is also great team member, a responsible leader and a highly motivated and positive person.HIGHLIGHTS:* She has a technically sound background, with experience as a graduate Intern at Sandisk Corporation (ASIC Development) and 4 internships prior to this.* She has a completed a diverse set of academic projects in areas including RTL Design/Verification/Synthesis, NetFPGA, VLSI System Design, Computer Organisation, Layout Design and Static Timing Analysis.* She also has 3 paper presentations and 1 publication to her credit.* Her interests include: RTL Design/Verfication/Synthesis, Digital & Logic Design, NetFPGA and Implementation, Computer Organisation, PCIe.SKILLS:* Languages : Verilog, System Verilog, Perl, Shell Scripting, C, Embedded C, C++, Assembly Level Language, VB, MATLAB* Hardware: Xilinx Virtex 2 Pro, 32 bit Power PC Processor, Rexroth PLC, Microcontrollers(Atmel 8051,NXP AT89V51RD2)* Software & OS: Xilinx ISE,Synopsys Tools, CADENCE Virtuoso, Schematic L, Layout GXL, Chip Assembly Router, MentorGraphics- ModelSim, MathWorks, Orcad Demo, AutoCAD 2011. OS : Unix, Windows, Mac OS.

Experience

1. Asic Design Verification

   Google

   Nov 2022 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

Education

• University of Southern California

  Master of Science (MS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2013 — 2014

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2009 — 2013

• Harvard Business School Online

  Business/Managerial Economics/Credetial Of Readiness

  2016 — 2016

Skills

• Microprocessors
• C++
• Cadence
• Awk
• Xilinx Ise
• Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (Fpga)
• Matlab
• Hardware Architecture
• Assembly Language
• Xilinx
• Systemverilog
• Fpga
• Microcontrollers
• Assembly Level Programming
• Cmos
• Sed
• Netfpga
• C
• Very-Large-Scale Integration (Vlsi)
• Shell Scripting
• Embedded C
• Autocad
• Synopsys Tools
• Pcie
• Visual Basic
• Modelsim
• Perl
• Cadence Virtuoso
• System Verilog
• Memory
• Verilog
• Pspice
• Microsoft Office
• Vlsi