Raghavendra Kulkarni

Room 318-F, Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center

Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University

College Station, TX-77843

Ph: (979) 845-8799         email: kulkarni@ee.tamu.edu


 

Country

India

Degree Pursuing

Doctor of Philosophy

Advisor(s)

Dr. Silva-Martinez, Jose

Education

*B.E. Electronics and Communication Engineering 

SJCE, University of Mysore, November 1997

 

*Master of Technology (VLSI Design Tools and Technology),

IIT Delhi, India. (Aug 1999 –Aug 2001)

Areas of Interest

Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Design, High speed interface circuits, Low power baseband filter design, Mixed Signal System Design.

Current Work

Analog Baseband design for DVB-H tuner system.

Courses

ELEN 474   VLSI circuit design                              

ELEN 607   Advanced Analog circuit design techniques      

ELEN 620   Broadband Circuit Design

ELEN 671   Solid State Circuits

ELEN 605   Linear control systems

ELEN 646   Statistical Communication Theory

Experience

* Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX (June 2005-Dec 2006) Design Engineer Intern  Designed the Analog Front end circuits (HS driver, HS squelch, HS receiver, termination calibration circuits with DAC) for High Speed USB (2.0) in TI 65nm.

*LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (July 2001-July 2004)  Design Engineer Sr. Digital  circuit & I/O buffer design, high speed SDR/DDR memory interface design, LVDS interfaces & high speed I/O signal integrity analysis. Successfully designed the entire SDR/DDR memory interface circuits on Domino MPEG-2 encoder SoC.

*Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (December 2000-May 2001) Graduate Engineering Intern: Design analysis of high speed latch/filp-flop circuits and timing techniques for Montecito Microprocessor.

*Compaq Software Design Center (Nov 1997-Jan 1999) – Software Design Engineer. Unix & C programming for OS Development for Digital UNIX on DEC Alpha servers.