This document contains the resume of Venkateswarlu Kota. It summarizes his objective of seeking a challenging career in emerging technologies, and lists his educational qualifications including an M.Tech in VLSI & ES with a 7.79 CGPA and a B.Tech in ECE with 74.97%. It also outlines his custom layout design training and 6 digital and analog layout projects completed with challenges addressed for each. Finally, it provides details of an academic MIPS processor design project and personal details.

1. VENKATESWARLU KOTA
E-mail: shanmukhavenky.org@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9492778695
Institute of Silicon Systems Pvt. Ltd.
OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a challenging career wherein I can integrate my technical and analytical skills
to produce some original contribution of my own in the emerging technologies.
EDUCATION PROFILE:
 M.Tech in VLSI & ES from GMR Institute of Technology (Affiliated to JNTU
Kakinada) with an aggregate of 7.79 CGPA in 2015.
 B.Tech (ECE) from BVC Engineering College (Affiliated to JNTU Kakinada) with an
aggregate of 74.97% in 2012.
 Intermediate from GRC Junior College (Board of Intermediate) with an aggregate of
86.40% in 2005.
 SSC from Smt.GMD High School (Board of Secondary Education) with an aggregate
of 73% in 2003.
CUSTOM LAYOUT DESIGN SUMMARY:
Completed intensive training in VLSI-Custom Layout Designing from
Institute of Silicon SystemsPvt. Ltd., Hyderabad from28th December, 2015 to 8th
April, 2016.
Cadence Tools:
Experience in Custom Layout Designing using Cadence tools.
 Virtuoso Layout (L/XL) Editor - Floor Planning and Routing
 Assura & PVS Verification - DRC & LVS
 Targeted Technology - TSMC 130nm and GPDK 45nm
CUSTOM LAYOUT PROJECTS:
DIGITAL LAYOUT DESIGNS:
Project 1: Standard Cell Layout Designs
Cells Designed: INVERTER, NAND, AND, NOR, OR, EX-OR, and DFF.
Targeted Technology: TSMC 130nm
Role: Developing the Standard cells for given Spice Netlist and verify errors.
Challenges: Creating devices manually, maintain equal Cell height for all cells in-terms of
no. of metal track, carving, maintain Half DRC rules and De-bugging errors (DRC and LVS).

2. VENKATESWARLU KOTA
E-mail: shanmukhavenky.org@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9492778695
Institute of Silicon Systems Pvt. Ltd.
ANALOG LAYOUT DESIGNS:
Targeted Technology: GPDK 45nm
Role: Development of layout from schematic, providing critical matching for devices and
verifying DRC and LVS for both top level and bottom level blocks.
Project 2: Level Shifter
Description: It is a conventional level shifter which is used to shift the voltage levels.
Challenges: Taken care of PSUB2(for isolating substrate) and drawing the layout in
optimized way.
Project 3: Operational Amplifier (Op-Amp)
Description: It is a DC differential amplifier which produces high gain by providing proper
feedback.
Challenges: Critical matching for Diff-pair and current mirrors, signal flow, provide
dummy's to protect the critical devices, provide guard rings, layout compactness and protect
critical nets from noise coupling.
Project 4: Band Gap Reference (BGR)
Description: It is a circuit which provides a constant voltage irrespective of temperature
variations and input violations.
Challenges: Floor planning, power routing, taken care of EM and IR drop, BJT’s & device
matching with respect to PVT and protecting critical nets (shielding) from noise coupling.
Project 5: Digital to Analog Converter (8-bits)
Description: It scales digital reference signal as an analog output signal according to the
digital input given (Switches to R-2R network).
Challenges: Providing proper matching for resistor network (R-2R), match the critical nets to
meet the same delay, device matching with respect to PVT, taken care of EM and IR drop,
taken care of critical nets, antenna effect, provide proper bias from sources and signal flow.
Project 6: PLL Phase Locked Loop (PLL)
Description: A phase-locked loop is a feedback system combining a voltage controlled
oscillator (VCO) and a phase comparator so connected that the oscillator maintains a constant
phase angle relative to a reference signal.
Challenges: Floor planning, power routing, taken care of EM, device matching with respect
to PVT as well from (STI, LOD, and WPE), protecting critical nets and capacitors matching.

3. VENKATESWARLU KOTA
E-mail: shanmukhavenky.org@gmail.com
Mobile: +91-9492778695
Institute of Silicon Systems Pvt. Ltd.
SKILLS GAINED:
 Writing a SPICE level net list of a given circuit
 Debugging DRC and LVS violations
 Matching with respect to PVT
 Shielding
 ESD Effect
 Antenna Effect
 IR and EM Effects
 Floor Planning and Power Routing
 WPE, STI and LOD Effects
 Latch-up
 Noise Coupling
 Device Formation
ACDEMIC PROJECT:
Title: “Design of A Synthesizable Pipelined MIPS Core for Embedded Applications”
Description:
The use of soft core processors has become inevitable in electronic and mechanical
industries for embedded applications. In my project soft-core reconfigurable pipelined MIPS
processor is developed, which is used in all embedded on-chip applications. Specifically,
synthesizable VHDL model for un-pipelined and pipelined MIPS Processor is simulated. This
design is useful for all synthesized to verify the synthesizability. Modelsim is used for logical
verification and synthesizing is carried out using Xilinx- ISE14.2 tool. The results prove the
proper functioning of the processor and found to occupy less area compared to previous one.
PERSONAL PROFILE:
Father’s Name : Ramudu K
Mother’s Name : Lakshmi K
Date of Birth : 01-05-1987
Languages Known : English, Telugu
Current Location : Hyderabad (Flexible to migrate)