Last Updated on Dec 28, 2012

Dr. C. P. Ravikumar

TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INDIA Bagmane Tech Park, Opposite LRDE, C.V. Raman Nagar, Bangalore 560093, INDIA Ph: 91-80-25099727 FAX: 91-80-25048213 E-mail: cpravikumar@hotmail.com

My biographical Information	Brief Biography
My research	My teaching
My Publications	My Books
My Professional Activities	I am on Twitter
TI India University Program	I am on Facebook
My work at IIT Delhi	My blogs on TI University Program site
Seminars delivered recently	Courses taught at IIT Madras

 

Biographical Information

• 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 UVCE, Bangalore University (1983)

• Professional Experience

·        Infosys Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India (1983-1985)

·        Processors Systems India, Bangalore, India during (1987)

·        Research assistant and teaching assistant, Department of EE-Systems, USC (1987-1991)

·        Assistant Professor,Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi (1991-1995)

·        Research Associate, EE-Systems, USC (1995-1996), and Summer of 1997

·        Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi (April 1996-March 2000)

·        Professor in Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi (March 2000 – July 2001)

·        Vice President (Training), Controlnet India Pvt Ltd (Goa), an ASIC Design Services Company (October 2000 - June 2001)

·        Texas Instruments India, since July 2001. Joined as Senior Technologist in ASIC Division. Presently leads the TI India Technical University and directs the TI India University Program

·        Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras (since 2008)

 

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). He received an award from Zinnov for his work on eco-system development in India (Universities).

Research Interests

I have conducted research at USC, IIT Delhi, and at TI India in the following areas. Please click here to see the list of my research publications.

• 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

• VLSI Design Automation

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

• High-Performance Computing

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 a softcopy.

 

Journal Publications

Conference Publications

Books and Tech Reports

Professional Activities

 

Contribution to Journals

Contribution to Conferences

Contribution to Professional Societies

Contributions to Curriculum Development

 

Contributions to Professional Societies

 

• Honorary Secretary of the VLSI Society of India (August, 2003 – August, 2011)
• Founder and Honorary Secretary of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Bangalore Chapter (since 2004)
• Senior Member, IEEE (since 2004), Member of IEEE since 1989
• Fellow, Indian Microelectronics Society (since 2003)
• Speaker in the IEEE India National Distinguished Lecturer Program (since 2009)
• Member, IETE (since 1994)
• Member, ISTE (since 1998); invited member of review committee for ISTE Publications (2008-current)
• IEEE TTTC Group Vice Chair, Asia and South Pacific Region (since 2004)
• Member of the University Relations Sub-committee of India Semiconductor Association (since 2005)

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Journal-related Activities

• Founder and editor of “UniTI” Newsletter published by Texas Instruments India (University Program) (2008-2012). Presently, editor of the electronic newsletter of TI India University Program
• Founder and editor of VSI Vision, the periodical of the VLSI Society of India (2003-2006)
• Member, Editorial board, International Journal of VLSI Design published by Ablex Publishers, New Jersey (1991-2001)
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Electronic Testing – Theory and Applications (JETTA) (2001 – 2011).
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Low Power Electronics (JOLPE), since 2007.
• Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Processor Architectures, CSI Communications, Jan 2006
• Editor of Special Issue on Storage Area Networks (Computer Science and Informatics, Journal of the Computer Society of India), 2004
• Member, Editorial Board, Computer Science & Informatics (Journal of the Computer Society of India)

Curriculum Development

 

• I have organized several curriculum development workshops and developed new courses at IIT Delhi
• I have been on the Boards of Study for several Universities in India

 

Teaching

 

University of Southern California	I taught a course on VLSI Design for undergraduate students twice in the Department of EE-Systems. I was also a teaching assistant for “Computer Organization” and “Computer Architecture” classes at USC.
IIT Delhi	I have taught several courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students at IIT Delhi. Please click here to see more.
IIT Madras	As an adjunct faculty at IIT Madras, I have taught courses in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Please click here to see more.
IETE, New Delhi	I have taught courses on “Parallel Processing” several times for the Masters’ students of the IETE
BITS, Pilani	I taught a course on “VLSI Testing” at BITS Pilani in 2008
BITS Pilani – Distance Education Program	I have taught courses on “VLSI Testing” and “CAD of ICs” for the Distance Education Program of BITS Pilani conducted in Bangalore

 

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)
• 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
• 1-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

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Invited Seminars given in the recent past

(Click here to see the complete list of talks in the past few years )

Seminars delivered in 2012

Introduction to MSP430 Microcontroller	SJCE, Mysore	Jan 11	inauguration of the two-day faculty development program on Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller
How TI Technology helps in developing low-power high-performance and low-cost embedded systems	Texas Instruments, Bangalore	Jan 12	Talk delivered to interns
Introduction to MSP430 Microcontroller	Texas Instruments , Bangalore	Jan 18	Inauguration of the two-day faculty development program on Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller
Multicore Processors	Texas Instruments, Bangalore	Jan 24	Delivered at Texas Instruments
It’s always 430 somewhere!	IP University campus, New Delhi	Feb 9	Seminar in Department of Computer Science
Skill Development in the country in the area of Embedded Systems	MCIT, New Delhi	Mar 3	Invited panelist at the workshop organized by Department of Information Technology, Government of India
C2000 Microcontroller in Power Electronics Applications	Amritha School of Engineering, Bangalore campus	Mar 13	Inauguration of the two-day faculty development program on C2000 microcontroller
Introduction to MSP430 Microcontroller	Texas Instruments, Bangalore	March 2012	inauguration of the Takeoff with MSP430 launchpad – a self-learning lab program organized at Texas Instruments
It’s always 430 somewhere! on Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller	Father Rodrigues Institute of Technology , Navi Mumbai	Mar 27	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
C2000 Microcontroller in Power Electronics Applications  Father Rodrigues Institute of Technology	Father Rodrigues Institute of Technology , Navi Mumbai	Mar 27	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
It’s always 430 somewhere!	BNMIT, Bangalore	March 28	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
It’s always 430 somewhere!	CT Institute of Technology, Jalandhar	Apr 3	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
It’s always 430 somewhere!	KSSEM, Bangalore	Apr 10	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
Texas Instruments C2000 Microcontroller in Power Electronics Applications at	PESIT, Bangalore	April 23	Seminar in the Dept of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Trends in Electronics and Communication	Nitte Minakshi Institute of Technology	May 3	Seminar in the Dept of ECE for teachers
Embedded Systems	Sir MV Institute of Tech	May 3	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
Power Efficient Signal Processing	KSIT, Bangalore	May 4	Keynote talk at ICVSP 2012
It’s always MSP430 somewhere!	CT Inst of Tech, Jalandhar	Jun 4	Inauguration of TI India Univ Prog workshop
It’s always MSP430 somewhere!	NIT Jalandhar	Jun 4	Seminar in Dept of ECE
It’s always MSP430 somewhere	IIIT Hyderabad	Jun 14	Seminar for ECE students
OMAP Heterogeneous Multicore Platform for Low Power Mobile Devices	IGIT Delhi	Jun 16	Seminar in Summer Workshop
ARM based Embedded Processor Platforms from TI	CDAC Hyderabad	Jun 20	Talk for the participants of the faculty development program
Power Efficient Signal Processing	MJCET Hyderabad	Jun 28	Inauguration of IEEE CAS chapter
Power Efficient Signal Processing	PSG Polytechnic College	Jun 30	Keynote address at VECOS 2012
Importance of System-level Design and Analog	CDAC Bangalore	July 2	Faculty Development Program
Inspiring innovations in Analog System Design	CMRIT, Bangalore	July 23	Inauguration of workshop on Analog System Design
It's Always MSP430 somewhere	St Joseph’s College of Engineering (Mangalore)	July 23	Webinar
Power Electronics applications of C2000 Microcontroller with special emphasis on Motor Control	NIT Calicut	Aug 6	Inauguration of two-day workshop on C2000 microcontroller
It’s always MSP430 somewhere	VIT Chennai	Aug 8	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
Embedded Systems	Anna University College of Engg, Chennai	Aug 8	Seminar in the Dept of ECE
Texas Instruments For Embedded Applications and Industrial Automation  -	SRM University, Chennai	Aug 18	Seminar in the Dept of Control & Instrumentation
Power Electronics applications of C2000 Microcontroller with special emphasis on Motor Control	TCE Madurai	Aug 30	Inauguration of workshop on C2000 microcontroller
Chief guest address : Trends in Electronics & Communication –	TCE Madurai	Aug 30	Inauguration of EEE association
Introduction to TI Microcontrollers	SCOE Pune	Aug 31	Seminar in Dept of ECE
Trends in Electronic Measurement & Instrumentation	MIT Chennai	Sep 6	Seminar in Dept of Instrumentation
Trends in Electronics and Communication	Tejaa Shakti College of Engg & Tech	Sep 15	Web-enabled Keynote talk at NCICCG’12
Analog System Design	TCE Madurai	Sep 7	Webinar
Introduction toTI Microcontrollers	RVCE Bangalore –	Sep 27	Seminar in Dept of ECE
TI's Low power Wireless Connectivity Solutions	Anna Univ College of Engg, Chennai	Oct 5	Inauguration of workshop on Wireless Connectivity
Research Methodologies	KSSEM Bangalore	Oct 12	Keynote talk at workshop on Research Methodologies
Introduction to TI semiconductor solutions and their applications	DJ Sanghvi College of Engg, Mumbai	Oct 18	Seminar in Dept of ECE
Introduction to TI Microcontrollers at SPIT	Mumbai	Oct 18	Tutorial in ICCICT 2012
Introduction to TI Microcontrollers	Chitkara University , Punjab Campus	Oct 20	Inauguration of Multiworkshop on TI microcontrollers
Applications of MSP430 Microcontroller	TI Campus	Oct 22	Address to the student participants of the Saturday workshop
VLSI and Communication- a fractal relation	BIT, Bangalore	Oct 30	Keynote talk at Conference on VLSI and Communication Systems
30 years of DSP - Milestones and Road Map	Chitkara University, Rajpura, Punjab Campus	Nov 1	Keynote Talk at SIBIP-2012
Embedded Systems	UIET, Chandigarh	Nov 2	Seminar in Dept of ECE
Low Power High-Performance Low-Cost Embedded Systems using TI Embedded Processors and Analog	Cranes Varsity, Bangalore	Dec 27	Seminar

 

Courses taught at IIT Madras

 

As an adjunct faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras, I have taught the following courses:

• DSP and Embedded Systems (jointly with Prof. S. Srinivasan) – 2008
• CAD of Integrated Circuits (jointly with Prof. A. Ravishankar) - 2009
• Special Topics in VLSI Design (jointly with Prof. A. Ravishankar) – 2010, 2011 and 2012