KRISHNA KISHORE BALAM

10, East Quincy Street, Apartment H,

Rapid City, SD 83706.

Phone: (605) 718 5106.

E-mail: [email protected]

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OBJECTIVE:

         To secure a promising position that utilizes my skills and offers both challenge and good opportunity for growth.

EDUCATION:

• Master of Science in Electrical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD.

      GPA–4.0/4.0      Sep 2003– Present                                                                    

• Bachelor of Technology, Electronics & Communications Engineering, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and technology, India.

      GPA – 3.7/4.0    July 1999 – May 2003                                                                     

COURSE WORK:       

       VLSI Design, HDL Design, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Hardware Design, Advanced VLSI Design, Advanced Digital System Design, 

       Advanced Numerical Analysis, Signals and Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Digital Image Processing, Analog Communications, Digital 

       Communications, Data and Computer Communications, Cellular and Mobile Communications, Computer Organization, Operating Systems,

       Switching Theory and Logic Design, Pulse and Digital Circuits, Antenna Wave Propagation and Satellite Communications.

RELATED SKILLS:

         Languages: C, C++, HTML, DHTML.

       Operating Systems: MS-DOS, Windows-95/98, 2000, XP, UNIX, and Linux.

       Scripting Languages: UNIX Shell scripts, PERL.

       Packages: MS-Office and MS-FrontPage.

       Protocols: UTOPIA.

       IC Design Tools: Mentor Graphics, Cadence, Tanner, Synopsis.     

       HDL Languages: Verilog and VHDL.

       Design Tools:  Xilinx ICE, Modelsim, Leonardo Spectrum, and FPGAdv.

WORK HISTORY:

 ·   Working as a Teaching Assistant at South Dakota School of Mines and technology. Job duties include assisting the professor in the      

     computer simulation of digital circuits and Analog Circuits using both PSPICE and MATLAB and grading the assignments.

•  Working also as a Ticketing Official with Aramark at South Dakota School of Mines and technology.

   ·    Working as an instructor in the Signal Processing and EDA Labs:  Duties included teaching the students,

         correcting their reports and assisting in the assembly of electronic circuits.

·         Taught Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Programming to students at school and college level and helped in improving the grades.

      90 percent of the students I taught, got through the BSE with distinction.

PROJECT PROFILE:

        UNDERGRADUATE PROJECTS:

      Title: Design and verification of general purpose UTOPIA Universal Test & Operations PHY Interface for ATM).

      Organization: TTM India Pvt.Ltd.

      Description:

• It can operate in both Single PHY and Multi PHY modes.
• It supports cell level and octet level hand shaking.
• It also supports short cell (52 bytes), long cell (54 bytes) and normal cell (53 bytes).
• It has programmable parity generation along with data.
• It has 2 parts master and slave. Both master and slave have transmit and receive parts.

      Language used: Verilog

      Responsibilities: Design and Implementation of the receive master and transmit master along with verification.

      Title: Design and Development of Articulated Robotic Arm Using 8086 Microprocessor.

      Institution:  Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology.

      Description:

• Main aim of this project is to develop an articulated robotic arm using DC stepper motors and program them using 8086 Microprocessor.
• First part of the project was to develop a mechanical model using aluminum sheets.
• Second part was to program the stepper motors using 8086 Microprocessor to desired motion.

Language Used: C and Assembly language.

      Responsibilities: Design Driver circuits and Program microprocessor to achieve desired motion.

   GRADUATE PROJECTS:

      Title: Design of RS232 Transmitter and Receiver

      Institution:  South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

      Description:

• This project has 2 parts namely transmitter and Receiver. These 2 parts are integrated into

    one module

• This module has transmit and receive parts. The functionality of transmit serial engine is

    to serialize the transmit data. The receive serial engine takes in the serial data and gives it

    as a parallel data.

• Serializer also checks for validity error, parity error and stop errors and gives an interrupt

    to the master.

Language Used: Verilog.

Responsibilities: Design of Transmitter and Receiver for RS232.

      Title: Design of 16-bit simple ALU.

      Institution: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

       Description:

·         This project has a simple 16 bit ALU which performs signed addition, subtraction, multiplication.

·         The aim of the project is to Design ALU at transistor level and designing IC Layout and

       simulating it. 

Tools Used: Mentor Graphics (Design Architect, Accusim, IC station, Mach TA).

Responsibilities: Design of 16-bit ALU.

      Title: Design and Implementation of a simple neural network Robotic Arm Controller

      on a single FPGA chip.

      Institution: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.

       Description:

·         The aim of the project is to design a Neural Network Circuit that controls the motion of a robotic arm.

Language used : Verilog.

Tools Used: Xilinx ICE and Modelsim.

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Topped in VLSI Design, HDL Design in South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

    in Fall 2003.

• Among top 1% of students in the Sreenidhi Institute of Science and technology in B.Tech (Electronics and Communications).
• Among top .5% (500/100,000) in the Engineering, Agricultural and Medical Common

    Entrance Test (EAMCET) - Common Entrance Exam for AP State's top Engineering Colleges,

    and got admission into SNIST affiliated to JNTU College of Engineering.

HOBBIES:

          Cooking, Playing Soccer and Cricket, Watching Movies. 

STRENGTHS:

             Organizational skills, Teamwork, Punctuality, Patience.

HONORS / AWARDS:  

• Member, IEEE, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology.
• President, Indian Society for Technical Education Hyderabad Students Chapter 2001.
• Treasurer of India Club at SDSMT Fall 2003.

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