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Rafath Achugatla

Portland

Summary

Actively Seeking internships in Digital Design and Verification / Computer Architecture starting immediately.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Portland State University
Portland
01.2025 - Current
  • Working as a Graduate Teaching for Digital Design course.
  • My responsibilities Include leading discussions, grading assignments and providing feedback, providing support and assisting with course planning.

RTL Design and Verification Intern

LUCID VLSI
India
01.2022 - 12.2022
  • Certified RTL Design and Verification trainee. Obtained hands on experience in design and verification projects.
  • Acquired strong fundamentals in Digital Design, VLSI design concepts. Developed and Implemented a class-based verification environment, utilizing stimulus generation techniques to successfully debug and verify RTL logic.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Portland State University
Portland, Oregon
03.2026

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
Tirupati, India
05.2021

Skills

Languages : Verilog, SystemVerilog, C, Python

Methodology : Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) Design/Verification Skills : RTL Design, SV Tstbench, Constraints, Randomization, Assertions, Coverage, OOPS, STA

Concepts : DRAM, Caches and Coherence Protocols, Pipeline, Branch Prediction

Protocols : AMBA APB, AXI, MESI, MESIF, PCIe

Tools : ModelSim, QuestaSim, Xilinx Vivado, Synopsys VC Formal, Synopsis Verdi and GitHub

Projects

UVM environment-based verification of Asynchronous FIFO, Designed a synthesizable RTL for asynchronous FIFO and developed a UVM-based testbench. Functional Verification of APB Protocol, Prepared a verification plan to verify the functionality of the APB protocol. Simulation of DDR5 Memory Controller Scheduling Algorithm, Simulated a DDR5 memory controller for a 12-core 4.8 GHz processor. Simulation of Level 1 Split Cache with MESI protocol and LRU, Simulated a Split L1 Cache for a 32-bit processor. Transaction/Bus Functional Modeling of Intel 8088 Bus, Simulated and implemented an interface for the Intel 8088 microprocessor. Design and Verification of leading zero detectors, Arbiter, Designed different leading zero detectors variants and developed exhaustive self-checking testbenches.

Timeline

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Portland State University
01.2025 - Current

RTL Design and Verification Intern

LUCID VLSI
01.2022 - 12.2022

Master of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Portland State University

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering College
Rafath Achugatla