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Dr. C. P. Ravikumar

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INDIA

Bagmane Tech Park, Oppositte LRDE, C.V. Raman Nagar, Bangalore 560093, INDIA
Ph: 91-80-25269451
FAX: 91-80-25048213
E-mail: cpravikumar@hotmail.com

 

  

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Biographical Information

(See below for a short bio)

  • Education

·        Ph.D. (Computer Engineering) from the University of Southern California (1991)

·        M.E. (Computer Science) from the Indian Institute of Science (1987)

·        B.E. (Electronics) from Bangalore University (1983)

 

 

 

Brief Biography

 

C.P. Ravikumar is presently the Technical Director of University Relations at Texas Instruments, India. He also leads the TI India Technical University which provides learning opportunities to employees of TI India. He is also an adjunct faculty at IIT Madras.  Before joining TI India in 2001, Ravikumar was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (1991-2001). He also held a visiting position at the University of Southern California (1995-1996) and the position of Vice President (Training) at Controlnet India Pvt Ltd (2000-2001).  He obtained his Ph.D. (Computer Engineering) from the University of Southern California (1991), M.E. in Computer Science with highest scores from Indian Institute of Science (1987) and B.E. in Electronics with a Gold Medal from Bangalore University (1983). He has published over 200 papers in leading International conferences and journals. He founded the VLSI Design and Test Symposium (VDAT) and was the General Chair of this event for 15 years, from its inception in 1998 to 2011. He is the author/editor/coauthor of over 12 books in areas of VLSI and has contributed several book chapters.  He is the editor of the Journal of VLSI and Electronic System Design and on the editorial board of the Journal of Electronic Testing – Theory and Applications and the Journal of Low Power Electronics. He has won the best paper award at IEEE International Conference on VLSI Design (2002) and VLSI Test Symposium (2005). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, honorary secretary of IEEE CAS Bangalore chapter (2004-current) which he founded, and the honorary secretary of VLSI Society of India (2003-2011).

 

 

Research Interests

  • Embedded Systems
  • VLSI Test

Testing for Nanometer-related Failures, Low-power Testing, At-speed Testing, Test Compression, Yield Improvement

Low-power test, variability issues in test

Test Vector Validation

Memory Testing , Hierarchical Testing

Built-in Self Test , IDDQ Testing , Functional Testing of Microprocessors ,
Testing of core-based systems , Fault Diagnosis

Design flow analysis and optimization, System-level Synthesis, High-level Synthesis
Low-power Design Techniques, Deep Submicron Design and Test, Embedded Systems

Distributed Computing, Distributed/Parallel algorithms for Resource Discovery
Parallel Algorithms, Heterogeneous Multiprocessors, Storage Area Networks, Embedded Systems
Routing and Multicasting , Interconnection Networks

 

 

 

Publications

 

Most of the papers can be downloaded from IEEE online library or from appropriate conference archives.  You can also visit www.scholar.google.com and get the citation information on my publications.  Sorry, I don’t have downloadable PDFs on my site. If you need any specific paper, I may be able to send the softcopy.

 

Journal Publications

Conference Publications

Books and Tech Reports

 

 

 

Professional Activities

 

·        Honorary Secretary of the VLSI Society of India (August, 2003 – August, 2011)

·        Honorary Secretary of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Bangalore Chapter (since 2004)

·        Senior Member, IEEE (since 2004); Member of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Education Societies.

·        Fellow, Indian Microelectronics Society (since 2003)

·        Speaker in the IEEE India National Distinguished Lecturer Program (since 2009)

·        Member, IETE (since 1994)

·        IEEE TTTC Group Vice Chair, Asia and South Pacific Region (since 2004)

·        Member of the University Relations Sub-committee of the India Semiconductor Association (since 2005)

 

 

 

Conference Activities

 

·       Recent Conference-related activities – Please click here… to view.

 

 

 

Journal-related Activities

 

 

 

Tutorials

·        Full-day tutorial at VLSI Design Conference 2011 with Prof. Kewal Saluja on “Overview of Modern VLSI Design and Test Practices”

·        Full-day tutorial on “Advances in VLSI Design” at MNIT, Jaipur (Aug 9, 2010)

·        Full-day tutorial at VDAT 2010 on “An overview of VLSI Design and Test”

·        Half-day tutorial at WECON 2009 on “Designing Embedded Systems using Beagleboard”

·        Half-day tutorial at VLSI Design and Test Symposium, 2009 on the topic of “Test Power Reduction”.

·        Teaching the course on “DSP and Embedded Systems” (jointly with Prof. S. Srinivasan of IIT Madras) for the students of Dual Degree Program in Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras

·        4-day tutorial on Design for Test at Noida, organized by VLSI Society of India  (Jointly with Prof. S.M. Reddy, U. of Iowa and Nilanjan Mukherjee, Mentor Graphics)

·        1-day tutorial on “Embedded Systems-on-Chip – Recent trends and future directions” on March 17, 2007 at Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Rajasthan (as part of the DST-sponsored workshop on Models of Computation)

·        Innovative Practices session at VTS 2007 (Joint organizer with Srivaths Ravi)

·        1-day tutorial on Embedded Systems  at TIMA conference, National Institute of Technology, Trichy, Jan 4, 2007

·        3-day tutorial on DFT organized  by VLSI Society of India on the topic of Design for Test at New Delhi, December 2005 (Jointly with Vishwani D. Agrawal)

·        Delivered a 1.5-day tutorial on Design for Testability of Digital Systems at VNR VJIET, Hyderabad, September  2006

·        Delivered a 2-hr tutorial on “Industrial Perspectives in Design for Test”,  August 2006, Bangalore

·        Delivered a 1-week course on DFT at BITS, Pilani during Feb 2006

·        Delivered a half-day tutorial on VHDL at the VLSI Education Workshop organized by NIST, Berhapmpur, October 2005.

·        Delivered a half-day tutorial on “System-on-Chip Design & Test”  at the VLSI Education Workshop organized by NIST, Berhapmpur, October 2005.

·        Invited Tutorial on “CAD of Integrated Circuits” at VLSI Education Workshop, Mysore, May, 2004

·        Tutorial on Challenges in System-on-Chip Design at the IEEE TENCON 2003, Bangalore, 2003

Invited Seminars given in the recent past

  • Jan 3, 2011 – Informal discussion with students of M.Tech (VLSI) at Anna University College of Engineering, Chennai
  • Jan 3, 2011 – Invited talk on “Fifty years of semiconductor innovation,” at KCT Inst of Tech, Chennai
  • Jan 3, 2011 – Invited talk on “Multicore SoC for next-level Power/Preformance” at MIT Anna University, Chennai
  • Mar 24, 2011 – Talk on “Embedded Systems” at Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad
  • Mar 3, 2011 – Talk on “Semiconductor Technologies for Biomedical Applications, “ Anna University College of Engineering, Chennai
  • Mar 3, 2011 – Talk on “Evolution of DSP Architectures” at IIT Madras
  • Mar 4, 2011 – Talk on “Multicore SoC for next-level Power/Performance” at NIT Trichy
  • Mar 19, 2011 – Talk on “It’s always 430 somewhere” at Anna University College of Engineering, Chennai
  • Mar 20, 2011 – Talk on “It’s always 430 somewhere” at Anna Univeristy College of Engineering, Chennai
  • May 6, 2011 – Talk on “Evolution of DSP Architectures” VIT University, Vellore
  • May 17, 2011 – Talk on “Betterment of Rural Communities through ICT”, IETE Chapter, Chennai
  • Jun 6, 2011 – Talk on “Modern Practices in Digital Design,” Sri Vishnu College of Engineering, Bhimavaram
  • Jun 7, 2011 – Talk on “Embedded Systems,” Osmania University, Hyderabad
  • Jul  25, 2011 – Talk on “TI India University Program,” BMS college of Engineering, Bangalore
  • Aug 8, 2011 – Talk on “Why should we teach MSP430 in the Universities?,” Ambedkar Inst of Tech, Bangalore
  • Aug 29, 2011 – Talk on “Texas Instruments DSP and MSP430 for Embedded Systems,” IIST, Trivandrum
  • Aug 29, 2011 – Talk on “Embedded Systems,” (in Kannada language) delivered at Samvada, National College, Jayanagar, Bangalore
  • Sep 3, 2011 – Talk on “ARM Based Embedded Platforms from Texas Instruments” at the one-day conference on “ARM-based Embedded Platforms from TI,” held at IIT Madras
  • Sep 8, 2011 – Talk on “SoC Design – Challenges and Opportunities,” Anna Univ College of Engg, Guindy, Chennai
  • Sep 10, 2011 – Talk on “SoC Design – Challenges and Opportunities,” AMNE 2011 organized by IMAPS Bangalore, BIT, Bangalore
  • Oct 10, 2011 – Talk on “TI India University Program,” VIT Vellore
  • Oct 12, 2011 – Talk on “Power Electronics Applications using the Texas Instruments C2000 Microcontroller,” IIT Delhi
  • Oct 13, 2011 – Talk on “From VLSI Design to Embedded Systems – A Natural Progression for India,” at CEERI Pilani, Rajasthan
  • Oct 14, 2011 – Half-day workshop on “Applications of MSP430 Microcontroller” at BESU, Kolkata
  • Nov 4, 2011 – Talk on “Embedded Systems” for 4th year students of Electrical Engineering, IIT Madras
  • Nov 22, 2011 – Talk on “ARM Based Embedded Platforms from Texas Instruments” delivered at the two-day faculty development program on Stellaris Microcontroller, Bangalore
  • Nov 29, 2011 – Talk on “ARM Architecture and Programming” delivered at the two-day workshop on Stellaris microcontroller held in Bangalore
  • Dec 2, 2011 – Talk on “Recent Trends in Electronics and Communications” – Keynote talk at NCRTE 2011, Walchand College of Engineering, Sangli
  • Dec 12, 2011 – Talk on “It’s always 430 somewhere!” – introduction to MSP430 microcontroller for the participants of the workshop on MSP430 microcontroller held at Delhi Technical University

List of talks in the past few years is available here …