Santa Clara, CA · building in silicon
Hi, I’m
Shashank.
ASIC design engineer at NVIDIA working on ARM-based CPU RTL, power, and timing.
About
my work.
I’m a CPU design engineer at NVIDIA, working on RTL for ARM-based processors.
I have worked in CPU design, physical design, ASIC testing, EV charging, and network visualization.
Things I’ve
worked on.
Selected experience by role
and year.
NVIDIA · Santa Clara
ASIC Design Engineer
RTL design for ARM architecture-based processors. I work across out-of-order scheduler and execute pipeline blocks, shaping features with Verilog and improving power, timing, and architecture along the way.
Meta Platforms · Sunnyvale
Silicon Physical Design Intern
Optimized cell placement from RTL hints and integrated a Python-based RTL generation flow for ML accelerators, seeing 1–5% improvement in average power.
NVIDIA · Remote
ASIC Design Intern · CPU
Implemented decode-stage RTL features for multithreading and instruction decode, then automated global flows and internal reporting with Perl, Makepp, Bash, and REST APIs.
Analog Devices · Bengaluru
Engineering Intern
Built a digital fault-injection workflow for an ASIC battery-management system. Designed six SPI tests and reached 96% coverage.
Team Chimera · Formula SAE
Team Chimera · Formula SAESafety Circuits Engineer
Designed, prototyped, and tested component-level safety circuits for an electric race car, including the brake system plausibility device and the insulation monitoring device. Built the dashboard driver information system on a PHYTEC ARM single-board Linux computer, bridging the Kelly motor controller and the LinearTech BMS over CAN. Electrical Systems Officer at Formula Bharat 2020.
Selected
projects.
Work across hardware,
software, and systems.
SIGHTED
Architecture · low power
Streaming architecture for always-on vision
A programmable streaming architecture for low-energy, human-centric vision applications. Published in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
Read the paper ↗POWER
Wearables · energy transfer
Health wearables powered through the body
Bootstrapping battery-free health wearables using power transferred across the body. Presented at IEEE Body Sensor Networks 2024.
Read the paper ↗CHARGING
Embedded · cloud · mobile
Smart Charging Systems for EV
An embedded system, cloud server, and mobile app for Level 1 and 2 EV charging. The algorithm optimizes for cost, environment, and time. Patent pending.
Read the paper ↗VISUALIZER
Python · GEM5
On-chip network traffic visualizer
A Python tool for finding bottlenecks and link usage in Garnet2.0. Presented at the GEM5 Workshop 2022.
TESTING
Python · iVerilog
Test vector reordering for an FSM
An adaptive low-power test pattern generator using A* search. Achieved 94% fault coverage on the test circuit.
See the publication ↗BALANCING
MATLAB · Simulink
Cell balancing for lithium-ion packs
Designed and simulated passive and active cell balancing techniques for lithium-ion batteries, comparing their performance.
ALERTNESS
Java · Android
Driver alertness system
Detects a distracted driver from the road. Built at the Smart India Hackathon 2019 finals, where the idea was picked as one of the top four.
See the code ↗PyPODEM
Test generation with the PODEM algorithm, paired with a fault simulator that checks the patterns it produces.
See the code ↗PyDeductiveSim
A deductive fault simulator that propagates fault lists through a circuit to measure coverage.
See the code ↗Out-of-order
pipelined processor
Five-stage simulation with reorder buffers, forwarding, and Gshare branch prediction.
Real-time image
filtering
Efficient matrix operations and data acquisition for medical imaging on FPGA.
Read the paper ↗Always
learning.
Wins and
scores.
Competitions, papers,
and exams.
- 2022IEEE RoboTech HackQualcomm second place and Best Electrical Project · IEEE Georgia Tech
- 2020Best PaperOptical fibre communication using an open-source expEyes-17 device · International Conference on Multidisciplinary Technologies and Challenges in Industry 4.0
- 2020Second place, e-Yantra RoboticsMaze-solving robot challenge at IIT Bombay, from over 1000 teams
- 2019First place, Infineon HackathonOptimised an encryption system on an embedded target, in a team of four
- 2019Top four, Smart India HackathonDriver assistance system for identifying a distracted driver · Government of India
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