Mentors

Amul Atri, Chief Advisor (VLSI)

Mr Atri has more than 25 years of experience in Semiconductor industry in integrated circuit design and management of IC Design/Technology centres.

He started his career as LSI Design engineer in July 1982 at Semiconductor Complex Ltd (a public sector unit of Govt of India) in Mohali and worked there till 1997 in different capacities from design engineer to design manager. Mr Atri subsequently worked with Sand Microelectronics (Hyderabad) as GM, Motorola VLSI Design Centre (Gurgaon) as Centre Head, Maxim India (Bangalore) as Director (India Design Centre) and Spectra Linear India (Bangalore) as Managing Director.

Mr Atri has wide experience in digital and analog circuit design, Microcontroller architecture, physical design, design methodology, device modelling, interface with foundry & test engineering, product definition, new product introduction and project management. Mr Atri worked on various designs and technologies like oscillator design, weak inversion/ subthreshold modelling and circuit design, calculator and microcontroller architectures, gate array and standard cell families, RAM & ROM design, I/O design, telecommunication ASICs and new technology test vehicles.

Mr Atri was also associated with various projects sponsored by Dept of Electronics (now DIT) and Dept of Science & Technology as project manager & review committee member and VLSI Design conferences. Mr Atri was co-author of a technical publication in analog IC design and gave lectures at various seminars and training courses conducted at IITs, Universities and DRDO organizations.

Mr Atri holds M.Sc (Physics with Electronics) and studied M.Tech (CS) at IIT Bombay.

Mohan Rao, MTech - Senior Mentor ( Wireless Communications )

Mohan Rao is a Senior Mentor focusing on Wireless Communications & Network services and training at eTI Labs. He served as Senior Scientist (F) at LRDE(DRDO) for thirty years and was responsible for building RF based communication equipments that includes Radars, RF devices, and Antennas . Before LRDE Mr.Rao was with IIT-Kharagpur as Scientific Officer.

Mr. Rao holds a MTech (Electronics) from Birla Institute Of Technology, Ranchi

Rajiv Pujar, MTech - Senior Mentor ( Embedded, Mobile Apps & Networking )

Rajiv Pujar is CEO of eTI Labs and he is responsible for managing high Technology services, and strategy management.
He brings more than 17 years of product design and R&D experience to the company. He has developed carrier-grade products catering to Mobile & wireless communications, Semiconductors, Embedded systems, Networking and IP Telephony. Rajiv’s knowledge and experience in diversified technologies from embedded systems to mobile applications would be key in strengthening the company service initiatives.

Prior to founding eTI Labs, Rajiv served at Tyfone, US based company as Vice President of Technology. Rajiv was Director of software engineering at XORA USA, prior to Tyfone.

Rajiv was a Senior Technical consultant at Cisco Systems, USA. Prior to Cisco, he was at Zilog, USA as the Technical Manager in the connectivity product group,

Rajiv has authored and published number of technical papers. He graduated from BVB College of Engineering & Technology (BE in IT), Hubli and holds M.Tech ( IT) from SJCE , India.

Madhusudhana Rao, MTech (IIT–Delhi ) – ( R&D )

Madhusudhana Rao is a Mentor for DSP & R&D Services at eTI Labs. He is responsible for the design and development of Embedded systems, development of DSP Algorithms and providing training in the field of DSP. He brings more than 12 years of both academic and industrial experience to the organization.

Prior to joining eTI Labs, Madhusudhan worked as a Specialist (DSP) at Tata Elxsi, Bangalore. His responsibilities included undertaking of R&D services, developing DSP algorithms (Speech Processing), designing and testing of DSP system blocks with MATLAB. He was also involved in product development services of Tata Elxsi.

Prior to Tata Elxsi, he was working as a Senior Systems Engineer at CISC Tech Pvt Ltd (R&D Centre of Creative Technologies Pvt Ltd), Bangalore. He was working there in the field of Embedded System Product Development.Prior to CISC Tech, he was working at Aureole Technologies, Bangalore as Design Engineer (DSP).

He also worked as a faculty member in several academic institutions in India, which includes BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, Sree Vidyaniketan College of Engineering, Tirupati and NBKR Institute of Science and Technology, Nellore. He taught Digital Signal Processing and the related subjects in these institutions and guided many academic projects for the under-graduate students

Madhusudhan was graduated from JNTU College of Engineering, Kakinada and has done MTech at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Vijay Kumar ,MTech – Mentor (Embedded Systems)

Vijay Kumar is a Mentor/Senor Technical Manager for Embedded Systems Design services at eTI Labs. He is responsible for Embedded Systems Design & Development and Training .He brings more than six years of R&D experience to the company.

Prior to joining eTI Labs, Vijay served at Shaambala Value Systems as Senior Consultant. He was responsible for their development and testing services that include customized Linux device drivers for Ethernet cards, UART, USB devices, Fleet management, Inventory, Bluetooth programming and testing of mobile phones.

Prior to Shaambala he was at RVCE, as the Faculty/Research Fellow and was responsible for training, R&D Services and project proposals. He handled courses such as C, C++, VHDL and operating system for undergraduates of RVCE. He handled Microcontrollers and DSP (TMS320) labs. Has handled many undergraduate projects in the areas of embedded systems, DSP and VHDL.

Prior to RVCE he was a Project Trainee at Center for Development of Telematics, where he had worked on variable rate satellite modems using cadence signal processing work system.

Vijay graduated from BVB College of Engineering & Technology (Instrumentation Technology), Hubli and holds M. Tech (Digital Electronics) from SDM College of Engineering, Dharwad.

Ram P - Mentor (Windows CE)

Ram is a Mentor for Windows Embedded Systems Design services at eTI Labs. He is responsible for WIN CE Systems Design & Development and Training .He brings more than Seven years of R&D experience to the company.

Prior to joining eTI Labs, Ram served at Sasken as Senior engineer and worked on USB,SDMMC,PCI interfaces and developed products based on VxWorks, Windows CE , Windows Mobile and Windows NT

Ram holds a BE ( E&C) degree from BVB College of Engineering & Technology, Hubli

Michel A - Mentor (J2ME)

Michel is a Mentor for Mobile Application services and training at eTI Labs. He is responsible for J2ME, Brew and Symbian applications development and Training .He brings more than four years of R&D experience to the company.
Michel holds a BTech (CS) from Madras University.

Guruvinder Singh - Mentor (VLSI)

Guruvinder is a Mentor at eTI Labs and he is handling Semiconductor VLSI Design services and Training.

He has got two years of experience in the area of VLSI Design with knowledge in Synthesis, Static Timing Analysis (STA), Digital Design Fundamentals, PLD Architecture, VHDL and Verilog, Verification using Vera & SystemVerilog, DFT etc.

Guruvinder holds a BTech (E&C) from Kurushseta University

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