VISVANATHAN (Vishu) SUBRAMANIAN
309, Hunt Club Road, #6500E, 
Blacksburg, VA 24060, USA
Ph: (+1) 540 – 818 – 2828	
Email: vishu@vt.edu
Web: http://personal.vsnl.com/vsubramanian
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OBJECTIVE :

	
	To secure a fulltime position with specific interest in Digital Logic, ASIC Design/Verification for Communication Systems
	

EXPERIENCE :	

# 01/01- Present:	
Research Assistant,Center for Wireless Telecommunications,Blacksburg, USA  
		
** Broadband Wireless Gateway for Disaster Response Networks
- Designed 120 Mbps Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) gateway to aid emergency response operations
- Involved from conception to system integration 
- Board features a Motorola PowerQuicc II Communications Processor and Xilinx Virtex FPGA.
- I/O Features: 100 Mbps Fast Ethernet, RS 232 Host Interface, QPSK mapped wireless interface 
- Used VHDL, Synplicity and Xilinx Foundation Tools for FPGA Synthesis, and OrCAD for Schematics.
- Organized initial concept demonstrations and road shows for government and industrial partners/sponsors

# 04/99 - 06/99 :
Summer Intern/ Member,LAN Traffic Analysis Group
Center for Electronic Design and Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

** NDIS Intermediate Protocol Driver Shim
- Wrote a Virtual Device Driver (VxD) for an Ethernet Network Interface Card
- Used Windows 95 Device Driver Kit and Network Driver Interface Specification

** Blood Hound – An Ethernet Network Analyzer and Sniffer Application 
- Developed an Ethernet Network Analyzer to capture Ethernet Packets and extract statistics on higher level protocols
- Used C/C++ and MFC s to develop analyzer and easy-to-use graphical interface
- Used the analyzer to study the performance of TCP/IP based applications in Ethernet Networks.
	

EDUCATION:


# MS - Electrical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA (GPA: 3.4) DEC 2002

** Relevant Coursework:	
Digital System Modeling with HDLs, VLSI Design, Advanced VLSI Design, Analog VLSI, Computer Architecture, Basic Semiconductor Devices, Computer Networks, Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing, Satellite Communications.

** Relevant Projects:	
	- Analog VLSI Design of Flash Analog-to-Digital Converter
	- VLSI Design of a Bio-Chip to Measure Iron Content in Fluids
	- VLSI Design of a eight bit De-bouncer chip
	- Modeling Sobel Edge Detection Filter in VHDL
	- Simulation and Comparison of MANET Routing Protocols
	- Amateur Earth Station Design for AMSAT AO-40
	- Improving IEEE 802.11b Performance for Light Load

# BE – Electronics and Communication Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India (GPA: 3.8) MAY 2000

** Relevant Coursework:	
Digital Electronics & Logic Design, Microprocessors & Applications, Digital Signal Processing, Introduction to VLSI Design, Analog Electronics, Communication Engineering, Computer Networks, Antennas & Wave Propagation, Internet & JAVA Programming, OOPs

** Relevant Projects	
	- Design of PCI Target Sequencer

	
SKILLS:	

# Operating Systems :	Solaris, HP-UNIX, Linux, Windows9x/NT/2K
# HDLs:	VHDL, Verilog, SystemC
# EDA Tools:	Synopsys, CADENCE, View Logic, HSPICE, PSPICE, Avant! Tools, OrCAD, Protel 
# FPGA Tools:	Xilinx Foundation Tools, Synplicity
# Programming:	C, C++, FORTRAN, Perl, HTML
# Packages/Tools:	MATLAB, Win95 DDK
# Skills/Protocols/ Standards:	LMDS, PCI Specification, Motorola PowerQuicc II Communication Processor Family, Intel i960 Architecture, Xilinx Virtex FPGA, IEEE 802.3, TCP/IP, IEEE 802.11, GSM, GPRS
	

PUBLICATIONS :	

# Visvanathan Subramanian, JG Tront, CW Bostian, SF Midkiff, " A Configurable Architecture for High Speed Communication Systems”, Military and Aerospace Applications of Programmable Logic Devices (MAPLD) International Conference, September 2002.

# Visvanathan Subramanian, JG Tront, CW Bostian, SF Midkiff, “ Rapid Prototyping of Broadband Wireless Communication Systems”, 12th VT MPRG Symposium on Wireless Personal Communications, June 2002.
	

MEMBERSHIPS/ACTIVITIES:	

# Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
# Finalist, QUEST – Search Engine Design Contest, organized by IEEE SJCE, Mysore, India Chapter – 1999.
# Secretary, PSG Tech Astronomy Club, Coimbatore, India (1999-2000)
# Chief Editor, Journal of PSG Tech ECE Association, 2000
# Editor, Impulse - PSG Tech College Magazine, 2000
	

REFERENCES:	
	Available on Request