Resume of Ram Annamalai

RAMANATHAN ANNAMALAI

75, St. Alphonsus street, #202
Boston, MA 02120-1650.
Home Phone :(617) 739-7476

Email: ram@ece.neu.edu
URL:http://www.ece.neu.edu/personal/ram/
Office Phone (Lab) : (617) 373 5353

EDUCATION

M.S.E.E Computer Engineering (Expected Graduation : May 1998)
Northeastern University.

B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Graduation : Apr 1996)
PSG College of Technology, India.

Sep 96 - Present
GPA : 3.95/4.0

Aug 92 - Apr 96
Percentage : 88.5
Class Rank : 1/47

KEY COURSES

Graduate
VLSI Design, Digital Computer Architecture, Digital System Design usign HDLs, Digital Hardware Synthesis (Audit), Software Engineering, Parallel Architectures for Signal Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Data Communication Networks, Linear Systems Analysis (Audit).

Undergraduate
Computer Networks, Personal Computer Systems, Object Oriented Programming and C++, Digital Electronics, Microprocessors and Microcontrollers.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Sep 96 - Present

Teaching Assistant, Computer Engineering, NEU.

Lab TA for undergraduate Digital Systems laboratory that involves

design of 4-bit logical/arithmetic Calculator,
schematic entry and simulation using Workview Office Tools and
hardware testing on Xilinx XC4000 FPGA Demoboard.

Teaching Assistant for the course Computer Engineering

Apr 95 - Jun 95 (Internship) LARSEN & TOUBRO Limited (Group XI), Mysore Works, India.

Design and Building of a "High Frequency Function Generator upto 20 MHz":

The heart of the function generator is an analog IC : MAX038.
Design of control circuitry for chip control signals for selection of output waveform and duty cycle.
Design of Output high bandwidth amplifier.
Implementation and testing of prototype

Nov 94 (Internship)

UMS Radio Factory, Coimbatore, India

Study of TV Antenna Boosters, Voltage Stabilizers.

COURSE PROJECTS

Graduate

Simulation of Predictive Sequential Associative cache using ATOM tracing tool
Implementation of Placement Algorithm for placement of VLSI standard cells in Java
Design of ALU using CAD tools MAGIC and OCTOOLS, simulation using IRSIM

COMPUTER & PROGRAMMING SKILLS

Languages: C, C++, Java, dBase, FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Assembly for 8086.
Others: LaTeX, HTML, Javascript, Perl
Operating systems/environments: UNIX, X/Motif, Solaris, Windows 95 & NT, MS-DOS, MS-Windows.
Software tools: Matlab, MS Word, MS Excel.
CAE tools:

Mentor Graphics (QuickHDL,Quicksim,DFL,Mistral-2 DSP tools)
Synopsys Behavioral Compiler
Workview Office
Magic

HONORS AND AFFILIATIONS

Best Outgoing Student of EEE Department, PSG Tech, for the year 1995-1996 (Colluri Award).
Best Project Award in the EEE Department for the year 1995-1996 for "PC Based Signature Verification System using Neural Networks".
Gold Medalist of Bachelor of Engineering 1992-96 batch, PSG College of Technology (for Best Academic Performance).
First place in BhavishyaJyothi scholarship'92 from the National Institute of Information Technology, Coimbatore.
IEEE Student Member, Memeber of IEEE Computer Society, Signal Processing Society.

Ramanathan Annamalai

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