Anshul Mehta
                Electrical engineering Department,
                 Stanford University

Email:         [email protected]
Website     www.geocities.com/cherry_anshu
Nationality: Indian

I am doing my Masters at Stanford University in the field of Digital VLSI (EE department).I wish to study further and  pursue a career in this field.

    Professional Preparation

       Pursuing Masters, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

        Completed B.E.(Hons)Electrical and Electronics Engineering, BITS  
  Pilani, India (2000-2004) with a CGPA of 10.00 

     Professional Experience

Practice School - I Project: Interfacing Of LCD and Matrix Keyboard using micro controller AT89C52
Duration: 2 months (May 2002 – July 2002)

     The project was carried out at Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC),
        Mumbai.

     The project deals with the study of Atmel 89C52 micro controller and interfacing  it with 32 bit   
         Liquid Crystal Display (LCD HD 44780) designed by HITACHI and a tactile 4*4 matrix  
         keyboard. A menu had to be made which would be displayed on the LCD and depending upon the
          keyed input the necessary action had to be performed and the displayed on the LCD.

       It involved various interactions with the research scientists at the control and instrumentation 
        division of BARC.

      The entire idea was conceived and implemented successfully.

      An in depth idea on carrying out research as well as a useful insight in teamwork
           was obtained. 

Practice School - II Project: Design, Simulation and Testing of Analog and Mixed Signal Circuits
Duration: 6 months (Jan 2004 – June 2004)

     I worked as a trainee in National Semiconductors (Indian Design Center), which was a part of the curriculum of my undergraduate studies. I worked in Analog and Mixed signal group on RFIDS and PLLs. I characterized various blocks of RFID tags like shunt and series regulator, charge pump, oscillator, demodulator, modulator, State machine and various bias circuits. It has helped me to understand the various analog and digital circuits. It helped me to understand the principle of backscattering used in modulation.

      I studied and helped in designing the Voltage controlled oscillator of the MNP divider PLL for 1.8 V voltage level. I studied all the components of PLL including phase frequency detector, charge pump and loop filter.

  Projects Completed at BITS:

  Design of Switched Capacitor Circuits
  Duration: One semester (January 2003 – May 2003)

       The project brings out the advantages of switched capacitor circuits and also describes the various applications .I designed switched capacitor integrator (inverting and non inverting), stray insensitive integrator and a low pass filter. It also involved the designing of a cascode operational amplifier. It made me understand the importance of switched capacitor circuits in analog signal processing.

   Design and implementation of robotic arm
   Duration: One semester (August 2002 – December 2002)

      The aim of the project was to design a robotic arm having three degrees of freedom and interface it with a digital camera. This project deals with controlling the motion of a robotic arm with the help of stepper motors. The robotic arm has a gripper, which lifts the object from its initial object and places it at the desired position .The initial position of the object is determined by taking an image of the surroundings and then processing the image.  

     Design of Optoelectronic Receiver using a SAGCM Avalanche  
     photodiode
     Duration: One semester (August 2003 – December 2003)

         In this project an analytical model of front end of an optical receiver composed of Separate Absorption, Grading, Charge Multiplication (SAGCM) InP-InGaAs Avalanche photodiode and a preamplifier to estimate the temperature dependence of the signal to noise ratio has been developed. Signal to noise ratio (S\N) versus temperature (-20°C to 80°C) characteristics have been plotted for various bias voltages of the photodiodes. From which it can be inferred that receiver performance shows an optimized signal to noise ratio for a given design and operating condition. An analytical approach is made to estimate the sensitivity versus bit rate for various temperatures in a digital receiver using SAGCM avalanche photodiode.

        I intend to publish a paper on the present topic under the guidance of Dr. V.K.Chaubey. It is in the process of review. 

Software scalable chip – Universal Micro Systems (UMS)
Duration: One semester (August 2003 – December 2003)

       This project deals with the study of the UMS chip and its application in telecommunication. It dealt with parallel processing of frames of digital data with the help of UMS chip.

        Achievements and Honors

            Year 2004 - Awarded the Gold medal for electrical and electronics
            engineering (undergraduation) at BITS, Pilani.

        Year 2004 -Awarded the Stanford fellowship award for MS in Electrical       Engineering.

        Year 2003  - Presented a paper at APOGEE (a national level event) at BITS, Pilani on the topic “Subthreshold regime of MOSFETS “ which dealt with the translinear principle and an understanding of the MOSFETs in the perspective of device physics.

         Year 2002 – Designed and modelled a visitor counter which was presented at electrical and electronics exhibition in APOGEE (a national level event) at BITS, Pilani.

         Year 2000-2004 –Received BITS merit scholarship for maintaining a CGPA of 10.

         Year 1998 –Awarded Dhirubhai Ambani’s scholarship for excellent performance in SSC examination. 

       Synergistic Activities 

         Member of Hindi Drama Club Member of Hindi Drama Club, BITS Pilani. Participated in national level inter collegiate fests like OASIS and APOGEE.

         Member of Hindi Press Club, BITS Pilani.

         Best cadet at NCC All India Training Camp

         National level athlete 

     Technical Skills

           Programming in C language.

           Pspice, Tanner and cadence tools, Matlab and verilog.

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