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Anand Sudhini

Livermore,CA

Summary

A results-oriented Product Leader with a strong technical background in Product Development & Ownership of advanced SOCs & GPUs. Specialized in ATE bring up, Data Analysis, Characterization, Yield improvement, EFA/PFA, Design & DFX enhancements, Defect modeling, IC reliability, CHTOL, Fab process & cost reduction. Seeking an Engineering Manager opportunity at Nvidia to further develop the team and myself professionally.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Product Development Engineer

NVIDIA
02.2018 - Current

Product Owner:

  • Leading all T254 Pre-Si product development through active collaboration internally & with the external partner, writing collaboration documents, defining & aligning on product milestones & ownership.
  • Leading the development of ATE HW including CP & FT load board designs by overseeing schematic creation, pinout determination, power delivery planning, and review of SI/PI simulations.
  • Defining ATE test plans for NPI & MP, CHTOL/SHTOL test plan, Test sequence development for shared IPs, HSIO screening methodology & define merge flow methodology for ATE & CHTOL.
  • Define ATE Fusing/binning strategy & Data sharing POR for the final product.
  • Recommend solutions, built proposals, prepared supporting information and delivered F2F presentations to define POR for all test related activities

Sr. Product Engineer:

  • Responsible for managing NPI from product definition and characterization, through specification validation, to product launch and ramp to MP.
  • As CP/FT lead, I effectively oversaw the test program development for CP/FT, consistently enhancing quality and test coverage while minimizing Test Times & overall D0.
  • Led critical Si debug to root cause yield issues affecting multiple products & drove CIPs incl. SYNC macro issue(CIP:2857429), Jtag_Extest (CIP:2773410)
  • Developed test plans for introducing new test features while also leading the creation of new test methods and updating existing ones.
  • As a qual lead, set aging margins with SSG, drove qual fail debug incl. EFA/PFA analysis & foundry teams to release new BKMs. Led program development & debug for CHTOL/PKG quals.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to address quality, reliability, and production issues while engaging with multiple engineering groups—Design, Layout, Foundry, SSG, and FA—to guide towards practical solutions

Senior Reliabiity Engineer

NVIDIA
02.2014 - 02.2018
  • Led all HTOL Board design activities including Schematic Capture, Layout Check/Review for all C-HTOL boards across Nvidia products using design tools ALLEGRO and AUTOCAD.
  • Led all C-HTOL Board/Pattern Bring-Up (Logic, Mbist, CLKPLL) of all Nvidia products (GPUs and Tegras)
  • Partnered with the HTOL socket vendor to create high-power HTOL sockets, which entailed designing, analyzing simulation outcomes, and ultimately choosing the optimal socket
  • Automated board design file verification process & HTOL analysis with Python.
  • Strong understanding of reliability failure modes & aging mechanisms including TDDB, BTI, HCI, EM.

Reliability Engineering Supervisor

ISE Labs
04.2008 - 02.2014
  • Managed the reliability ENG team of 2 engineers & 2 technicians, overseeing the design and assembly of Burn-In boards for MCC, INCAL, and AEHR test systems, ensuring compliance with customer netlist and specifications..
  • Led HTOL bring-up, validation, and debugging processes using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers.
  • Responsible for Schematic Capture, Layout Checking and Reviewing using design tools including ALLEGRO and AUTOCAD.
  • Responsible for Developing Test Plans to perform Functional and Reliability Testing on IC’s using C/C++ on Linux Test Platforms

Education

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY
01.2008

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

JNTU
Hyderabad
06.2005

Skills

Launch & Ramp from NPI to MP (CP/FT/Char/Qual/FA)

Yield debug, EFA/PFA (Mbist, ATPG fails)

Load board design, IC reliability, Device physics

DFx improvements for Test & MFG

Strong HSIO circuit knowledge

Design Tools: Allegro & Autocad

Testing Tools : Verigy (93K), T2K (Advantest)

Reliability Systems and Tools : MCC, AEHR, Incal

Programming Languages: PERL, Python

Analytics: MS Excel, Optimal Plus, JMP

Accomplishments

  • Introduced new DECD (Die Edge Crack Detection) feature from ideation to design to ISM macro & test-wrapper implementation for early detection of die cracks resulting from thermal compression bonding & advanced 2.5D/3D packaging. POR for all future Nvidia products. Patent filed & pending approval.
  • Drove the design fix for Synchronizer macros across all Nvidia products following the debugging of High P2P variation on ATPG vmins, resolving Hold Time issues by ensuring scannability of all flop stages within SSYNC macros. Automotive products were particularly susceptible due to their elevated concentration of SYNC macros.
  • Helped guide technical innovation to solve some of the pressing MFG issues through new unique DFM circuits like DCAP, IMON, DECD.
  • Drove multiple initiatives/methodologies including AMT_2.0, optimizing Pattern Robustness.

Timeline

Senior Product Development Engineer

NVIDIA
02.2018 - Current

Senior Reliabiity Engineer

NVIDIA
02.2014 - 02.2018

Reliability Engineering Supervisor

ISE Labs
04.2008 - 02.2014

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

Syracuse University

Bachelor of Science - Electrical Engineering

JNTU
Anand Sudhini