Vikram Kuralla

About Vikram Kuralla

High performing professional with 24 years of experience in the field of VLSI covering the complete product life-cycle, right from Architecture to Silicon.* Experience in the areas of SOC Integration, Synthesis, STA, DFT, Physical Design and Post Silicon activities.* Execution of Turnkey ASIC & SOC Designs in different domains like Client Compute, Artificial Intelligence, Base band Radio, and Networking chips on leading edge process nodes.* Experience with Test Chip Designs for Foundation IP ( standard cells, memory, IO, Analog), right from architecture till IP qualification on Silicon.* Experience with development as well deployment of EDA flows and Methodologies focusing on improving PPA and Quality.* Strong experience in Building and managing teams.* Mentoring & Coaching

Experience

1. Director - Silicon Design

   AMD

   Jul 2021 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Leading SoC\'s & Chiplets on latest technology nodes* Development and Adoption of AI/ML Methodologies in VLSI Design Flows, targeting Productivity Improvements and Cost Savings

Education

• University of Madras

  BTech, ECE

  1998 — 2002

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  M.S - VLSI Engineering, VLSI

Skills

• Rtl Coding
• Hardware Architecture
• Systemc
• Verilog
• Static Timing Analysis
• Synopsys Tools
• Ncsim
• Modelsim
• Place & Route
• Cadence Virtuoso
• Logic Design
• Timing Closure
• Floorplanning
• Cadence
• Ic
• Signal Integrity
• Arm Architecture
• Semiconductors
• Rtl Design
• Debugging
• Low-Power Design
• Integrated Circuit Design
• Microprocessors
• Arm
• Perl
• Eda
• Formal Verification
• Vlsi
• Uvm
• Fpga
• Asic
• Specman
• Dft
• Pcie
• Clock Tree Synthesis
• Mixed Signal
• Logic Synthesis
• Vmm
• Primetime
• Open Verification Methodology