North Carolina State University - Physics
RF Design Engineer at Itron, Inc.
Aparna
Prabha Ramakrishnan
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Actively seeking full-time opportunities in Analog/RF IC design starting June 2019.
High School Diploma
Science
AISSE
Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Relevant Projects
(1) Study of sliding mode control of a dc-dc converter and performance comparison with classical control methods such as voltage and current mode control. This involved simulation study using MATLAB-Simulink and Orcad PSPICE. A boost converter hardware prototype was developed in the laboratory.
(2) Implemented a linear predictor using MATLAB. This involved the development of basic DSP data structures such as lattice filters and modeling of different vocal tracts using the same.
(3) Implemented a Digital PLL using Arduino platform.
Coordinated teaching sessions in Digital Signal Processing and MATLAB.
Volunteered to conduct classes on C language as part of IEEE Women in Engineering initiative.
Conducted teaching sessions in Labcenter Electronics, Proteus 8 Professional.
Master of Science - MS
Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Relevant Projects
(1) Reconfigurable N-path mixer first receiver
(2) Design of CMOS direct-conversion receiver using 45nm technology
(3) Circuit and layout design of a 64 bit (8x8) SRAM using 15nm FINFET technology.
(4) Design and analysis of a CMOS operational amplifier
(5) Speed controller for a BLDC motor using Simulink
(6) Design and analysis of a bidirectional DC-DC converter for a battery charging application.
Graduate Student
Research
HARMONIC PERFORMANCE OF N-PATH MIXER-FIRST RECEIVERS WITH CIRCULANT SYMMETRIC BASEBAND FEEDBACK (MS Thesis, Advisor: Dr. Brian Floyd)
iNTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS LAB (INCS2) (July2017–current)
•Designed a circulant - symmetric baseband (CSB) feedback for a re-configurable N-path mixer-first receiver architecture to improve the harmonic suppression and bandwidth tuning in GF45RFSOI. •Demonstrated higher order response using ciruclant - symmetric baseband feedback employing R-RC circulants.
•Validated impedance translation of baseband with higher order RC network using circulant - symmetric baseband feedback theory.
Graduate Teaching Assistant
•Teaching assistant for ECE403: Electronics Engineering
•Course content includes circuit design and analysis using PN junctions, FETs, BJTs for junior/senior ECE students.