Last Updated on Mar 26, 2009

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

 

  

 

Biographical Information

 

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 (since August, 2003)

·        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)

·        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)

·        Honorary member of the Board of Studies for

1.     Visweswaraya Technological University, Karnataka

2.     Anna University, Chennai

3.     Chitkara University, Uttarakhand

4.     SJCE, Mysore (Autonomous Institution)

 

Conference-related activities

 

Journal-related Activities

 

Tutorials

·         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 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

·         Invited talk on “Embedded Systems” at National Engineering Conference, Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, Bangalore, Mar 19, 2009

·         Invited talk on “Challenges in the design of VLSI Systems” at Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, Chennai (March 13, 2009)

·         Invited talk on “Fifty Years of Semiconductor Innovation” at Pragyaa 2009 Student Technical Conference, Sri Guru Govind Singhji Institute of Technology, Nanded, March 6, 2009

·         Keynote Talk entitled “Industrial Applications in the coming years - Why we need to spend higher energy on low-power” at ISCO 2009, Karpagam Engineering College, Coimbatore, Feb 7, 2009

·         Talk entitled “Embedded Systems” for 4th Semester students of RNS Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Feb 5, 2009

·         Talk entitled “Semiconductor Innovation for Tomorrow’s Medicine” at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore, Jan 2009

·         Keynote Talk entitled “VLSI + Communications + Wireless Networks = Embedded Systems” at VCAN conference, Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, October 2008

·         Talk entitled “Semiconductor Innovation for Tomorrow’s Medicine” at the School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur, Nov 7, 2008

·         Talk entitled “Challenges of VLSI Design,” as part of the Industrial Lecture Series at IIT Madras, October 2008

·         Talk entitled “Introduction to Design for Test,” IIT Delhi, August 2008

·         Talk entitled “DSP and Embedded Systems – The Next Frontier,” delivered at the VSI workshop on DSP and Embedded Systems, August 2008, VNR-VJIET, Hyderabad

·         Keynote Talk, “DSP and Embedded Systems – The Next Frontier,” Delivered at the Faculty workshop on DSP and Matlab held at RNSIT, Bangalore, August 2008

·         Keynote Talk, “Embedded Systems – The next frontier,” Delivered at the Faculty Workshop on DSP and Matlab held at PESSE, Bangalore, July 2008

·         Keynote Talk, “Embedded Systems – The next frontier,” delivered at MSRSAS, Bangalore, July 28, 2008

·         Keynote Talk, “Signals and Systems  - The next frontier,” delivered at Anna University, May 2008. Also delivered at Reva Institute of Technology (June, 2008).

·         Keynote Talk, “How Computing, Communication and Control are changing and what we can do to keep abreast” delivered at Karpagam Engineering College, Apr 2008

·         Technical Talk, “Design Challenges for modern command-communication-control systems,” Anna University Campus, Feb 22, 2008.

·         Technical Talk, “Design Challenges for modern command-communication-control systems,” Easwari Engineering College Campus, Feb 22, 2008.

·         Technical Talk on “Variability Issues in Test,” at IMAPS Conference, Bangalore IINC 2007 (Nov 23, 2007)

·         Technical Talk on “Challenges in VLSI/Embedded Systems Design” given to final-year students of IIT Madras as part of the “Professional Practices” class, Nov 2007.

·         Technical Talk on “Challenges in VLSI Design” given to students of final year Electrical Engineering of Anna University, Nov 2007.

·         Technical Seminar on “Glitch-aware Test Pattern Generation” at RICE University, May 2007

·         Keynote talk, National Conference on ‘Design Techniques for Modern Electronic Devices, VLSI & Communication Systems DTVC-07’, NIT Hamirpur, May 14, 2007

·         Talk at RV College of Engineering, Feb 28, 2007 on “Embedded Systems on Chip”

·         Invited speaker at SIT Tumkur, 18 Feb 2007 – Talk on “Professional Practices for the Microelectronics Professional”

·         Invited talk on “The challenge of low power test – just when you thought low power design was under control” at TIMA, NIT Trichy, Jan 5, 2006

·         Delivered a seminar on “Challenges in VLSI Test” at RV College of Engineering, Bangalore during Oct 2006

·         Delivered a seminar on ”Challenges in VLSI Test” at Interra Systems, Kolkata, Sep 2006

·         Delivered the keynote talk on “Challenges in VLSI Design and Test” at Quintessence 2006, a National Level Technical Symposium held at  Easwari Engineering College, Chennai, 29 Aug 2006

·         Delivered a seminar at Computer Engineering, University of Southern California – May 2006 (“Hierarchical Scan Architectures”)

·         Delivered an invited talk on the topic of “Talent Creation in VLSI” as part of the Industry Forum, VLSI Design Conference, Jan 2006.

·         Delivered a talk on the topic of “Challenges of Testing Digital VLSI Systems” at VTU, Belgaum, Jan 2006

·         Delivered a talk on the topic of “Signal Integrity Issues in VLSI Test” at the VLSI Signal Integrity Workshop, Bangalore, December  2005

·         Delivered an invited talk on the topic of “Practicing Transition-Fault Testing with Physical-Design-Friendly Flows” at UT Dallas, November 2005

·         Delivered an invited talk on the topic of “Indian Semiconductor Industry” at the IEEE TTTC Technical Forum in honor of Prof. Sudhakar Reddy, November, ITC, 2005

·         Delivered an invited talk on the topic of “Multiprocessor Architectures for Embedded SoC” at Mindtree Technical Festival, 2005.

·         Delivered a keynote talk on the topic of “Multiprocessor Architectures for Embedded SoC” at INDICON 2005,  IIT Madras

·         Delivered an invited talk on the topic “Embedded System Design for Low Power using a Genetic Algorithm” at the ISA-IEEE Day, August 2005

·         Delivered an invited talk on the topic “Testing of Nanometer Chips” at VEDAS 2005, Salem, July 2005

·         Delivered a talk on “Challenges in the System-on-Chip Design” to students and faculty of VTU Belgaum and KLE Belgaum, June 6, 2005

·         Invited talk on “Recent Advances in VLSI Test”,  at the National Workshop on Challenges in VLSI. DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, India. May 2005.

·         Invited talk on “VLSI CAD Tools” at the VSI Workshop on VLSI Education, SJCE, Mysore. May 2005.

·         Invited Talk on “Recent Advances in VLSI Test (Scan Test Compression),” at the VSI Workshop on VLSI Education, Jaipur. March 2005.

·         Invited Talk on “Recent Advances in VLSI Test” at Apogee Student Technical Festival, BITS Pilani, February 2005

·         Invited talk on “Low Power Design Techniques” at the VSI Workshop on Low Power Design, Bangalore, Feb 2005.

·         Coordinated a Panel on “VLSI Education” at the VLSI Design Conference Industrial Forum, Kolkata, January 2005

·         Inaugural Talk at ECBLITZ 2004, the Student Technical Festival, PSNA College of Technology, Dindigul, entitled “Design, Verification, and Test in Nanometer Technologies,” 24 September, 2004

·         Invited Talk at ISRO Satellite Center, on “Challenges in Digital System Testing” at Bangalore, August, 2004

·         Invited Talk on  “Implementation Fabrics for Programmable Systems-on-Chip,” at VEDAS-2004, Sona College of Engineering, May 2004.

·         Invited Talk at IETE, Bangalore, on “Testing in the Nanometer Zone”, February 2, 2004

·         Invited Talk on “Design for Manufacturability” at the Workshop on Reconfigurable Computing at MNIT, Jaipur, March 2004

·         Keynote talk at 17th International Conference on VLSI Design. January  2004, Mumbai, entitled “Multiprocessor Architectures for Embedded System-on-Chip Applications”

·         Invited talk at IIIT Hyderabad on the topic of “Testing DSM Chips”, December, 2003

·         Invited talk at the inauguration of IEEE Chapter at MSRIT, Bangalore, entitled “Design, Verification, and Test in Nanometer Technologies”

·         Invited talk at the 3-day Workshop on VLSI and MEMS, SJCE, Mysore, May 2003 (held in cooperation with IEEE Chapter, SJCE, and IEEE Electronic Devices Society)

·         Panelist at the Student Festival held at SJCE, Mysore, April 2003 (Topic : Industry-Academia Interaction)

·         Invited talk delivered at SASKEN, Bangalore, on “Impact of Nanometer Related Timing Failures on At on At-speed Testing speed Testing” 2003.

·         Invited talk at SJCE, Mysore on the topic of Multiprocessors for Embedded Systems, Oct 2003

·         Keynote talk at the two-day workshop on VLSI held at RVCE, Bangalore, 2003

·         Invited talk entitled “Impact of Nanometer Related Timing Impact of Nanometer Related Timing Failures Failures on At on At-speed Testing speed Testing” at National Seminar on SoC, SASTRA Tanjavur, 2003

·         Panelist at the panel discussion held at National Seminar on SoC, SASTRA, Tanjavur, 2003 (Topic: SoC – Reality or Hype?)

·         Invited talk entitled “Multiprocessors – Past, Present, Future” at IIT Delhi, February, 2003

·         Invited talk entitled “Challenges in VLSI Test at BITS, Pilani as part of APOGEE 2003, Student Festival, February 2003

·         Moderator of panel discussion on “Challenges in Developing an Effective VLSI/embedded Systems Curriculum” at Workshop on VLSI Design for Embedded Systems, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, December 2003

·         Invited Talk on “Real-Time Projects Semiconductor & Chip Design” delivered at National Public School, Bangalore, July 19, 2003

·         Invited talk on “Introduction to Semiconductors” delivered at National Public School, Bangalore, August 2002

·         Invited Talk on “The Challenges in Designing Embedded System-on-Chip” delivered at the Two-day workshop on VLSI and Embedded Systems at MGR Engineering College, Chennai, 2003

·         Invited Talk at Novell on “Perspectives on Testing Hardware-Software Systems”, July 2002

·         Invited Talk on Trends in VLSI Design delivered at CRL, BEL, 22 May 2002