Dr. Santosh Shinde

Assistant Professor,
Department of Electronics,
Shivaji University,
Kolhapur - 416 004.
email - sas.vlsi[at]gmail.com

Education_______________________________

v  Ph. D. (VLSI Design) (2009) Specialized in Network on Chip Design, Title of the thesis: “Development of Reconfigurable FPGA based Systemc for Circumventing SPAM Email”

v  Masters in Electronics, M.Sc. (2006) Specialized in Communication Electronics and Computer Networking, . Title of Dissertation: “Device Control through SMS”.

v  Bachelor in Electronics,  B.Sc. (2004),  Secured Distinction .

Awards, Honors and Fellowships_____________________________

•   Research Fellowship awarded by University Grants Commission (UGC) India  under the grant scheme for supporting meritorious Ph.D. work.
•  Aklavya Scholarship (Dedicated for the Outstanding Students) for securing highest marks at Graduation

Technical Skills___________________________________

• Expertise in VHDL Verilog  HandelC and SystemC programming.
•  Experience in FPGA based System on Chip and Network on Chip Design.
•  Well Familiar with ASIC design flow, verification and validation and timing analysis, place and route and design for test.
•  Sound knowledge in Embedded C, ANSI C, and C++, Matlab programming.
•  Experience in Digital and Analog circuit design, Verification, Embedded System Programming, software development (C, C++, Assembly language, Embedded C and) in the field of information technology, Networking, Communication, Security, consumer electronics and research and development.
• Experience in developing test system and test suites for testing electronic systems.
•  Experience in Assembly programming - 8086, 8085, 8051 and PIC.
•  Well familiarity with  interfacing such as ADC, DAC, sensors and test equipments like oscilloscope, function generator, etc.
•  Good understanding of the communication protocols such as CAN, I2C, RS-232, RS-485.
•  Practice in working with the diverse Engineering Packages like Synopsis Design Compiler, Mentor Graphics – Modelsim,  MATLAB, Simulink, HSPICE, ORCAD-PSPICE, KEIL, Xilinx Webpack, Xilinx Embedded design Kit (EDK) , DK design suit for HandelC.
•  Good practice in building microprocessor/microcontroller based applications including circuit design as well as programming using assembly language and Embedded C.
•  Good understanding of the error control coding schemes such as Convolution encoding, and RS encoding Viterbi decoder.
•  Good understanding computer systems architecture and systems programming, Data structures and algorithms.
•  Experience on encryption algorithms such as RC4, AES-128 bit, DES, RC5, etc.
•  Experience on Design System on Chip (SoC) application for networking such as web server, POP client, SMTP server.
•  Good Understanding of embedded TCP/IP stack and working with LWIP stack.
•  Well Familiar with Designing Soft IP cores and their reuse in FPGA.
•  Working with Different soft microprocessor cores like MicroBlaze, PicoBlaze and PowerPC.
•  Xilinx FPGA used: - Spartan family XC3s400, XC3s200, XC3S500E. (Xilinx Spartan 3E Starter Kit).
•  Operating Systems: - Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux (Redhat ,openSUSE and Ubuntu), Unix.