Shreenidhi V
RTL Design & Verification | Digital IC Design | FPGA → ASIC
Electronics & Communication Engineering student focused on RTL design and functional verification — building hardware accelerators, custom peripheral IPs, and SystemVerilog logic from testbench to Sky130 ASIC tapeout.
01 / ABOUT
Hardware Acceleration & Digital IC Design
Currently building hardware accelerators and digital IC design flows (Verilog/SystemVerilog → Sky130 GDSII).
Deepening expertise in RTL-to-GDSII physical design (synthesis, floorplanning, place-and-route, STA).
Targeting frontend VLSI roles: RTL Design and Design Verification.
RTL Design
Synthesizable FSMs, compute accelerators, and bus interfaces in Verilog & SystemVerilog.
Design Verification
Self-checking SystemVerilog testbenches, protocol validation, and golden model co-simulation.
Physical ASIC Flow
Synthesis to GDSII layout using Yosys, OpenROAD, and Sky130 open PDK tooling.
02 / TECH STACK
Tools & Infrastructure
HDLs & Verification
EDA Tools & Flows
Protocols & Concepts
Programming & Platforms
03 / FEATURED PROJECTS
Featured Projects & Architectures
QVision — Hardware-Accelerated QR Engine
RTL modules — UART receiver, Reed-Solomon ECC decoder, dual-port framebuffer controller with 640×480 @ 60Hz VGA output — for a real-time FPGA-deployed QR decoding pipeline, carried through a complete RTL-to-GDSII flow to a taped-out layout.
Streaming Image Processing Accelerator
Pipelined Sobel edge-detection accelerator verified against a Python/OpenCV golden model with zero pixel mismatches across 222,720 pixels. Synthesized to Sky130 HD (79,968 cells), closed timing in OpenROAD at 33MHz with 0.87ns setup slack.
UART Controller
Synthesizable, parameterized full-duplex UART controller with configurable baud-rate generation (115,200 baud). Verified with SystemVerilog testbenches, taken through the Vivado implementation flow to a Basys3 FPGA bitstream.
DMA Controller
Dual-channel AXI4 DMA controller with a self-checking SystemVerilog testbench, built around a full study of the AXI4 protocol's five channels.
Student Enrollment Portal
Full-stack university academic records system with JWT-based auth, student/course/enrollment CRUD, and an AI-powered Academic Advisor chat interface (Llama 3 via Groq) for policy queries. Deployed frontend on Vercel, backend on Render.
Smart Vehicle ECU System
Software simulation of a four-ECU automotive network (Airbag, Obstacle, Anti-Theft, Fuel) over a software-emulated CAN bus with ID-based arbitration. Includes UART/I2C comparison stubs and a 20-case automated test suite driven by Python and CSV vectors; compiles clean under GCC -Wall -Wextra.
CREATIVE LIVE HDL SIMULATOR
Creative RTL & Live Waveform Simulator
Caffeine-to-Verilog Accelerator
Sky130 HD · 250mg Espresso Dose · 400 MHz Overclocked · Zero Bugs
Specialized Hardware Compute Engine converting caffeine molecules into synthesizable Verilog code at 400MHz with zero timing violations.
module caffeine_accelerator #(
parameter CAFFEINE_DOSE_MG = 250
)(
input wire clk,
input wire rst_n,
input wire [7:0] espresso_in, // Concentration level
input wire start_brewing,
output reg [9:0] brain_freq_mhz,
output reg bugs_found,
output reg synthesis_pass
);
typedef enum logic [1:0] {
NO_COFFEE = 2'b00,
BREWING = 2'b01,
OVERCLOCKED = 2'b10,
TAPE_OUT = 2'b11
} state_t;
state_t state;
always @(posedge clk or negedge rst_n) begin
if (!rst_n) begin
state <= NO_COFFEE; brain_freq_mhz <= 10'd50;
bugs_found <= 1'b1; synthesis_pass <= 1'b0;
end else case (state)
NO_COFFEE: if (start_brewing) state <= BREWING;
BREWING: begin
brain_freq_mhz <= 10'd100;
state <= OVERCLOCKED;
end
OVERCLOCKED: begin
brain_freq_mhz <= 10'd400; // Overclocked!
bugs_found <= 1'b0; // All bugs annihilated
synthesis_pass <= 1 me;
state <= TAPE_OUT;
end
TAPE_OUT: synthesis_pass <= 1'b1;
endcase
end
endmoduleINTERACTIVE CIRCUIT BUILDER
Digital Logic Gate Sandbox
| Input A | Input B | Output Y |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 |
04 / EDUCATION
Academic Foundation
B.E. — Electronics & Communication Engineering
Bangalore Institute of Technology, Bengaluru
RTL Design, Functional Verification & Digital IC Architecture
Sky130 Open PDK, Yosys, OpenROAD & Vivado
05 / CONTACT
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