From: bhingard@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Siddharth Bhingarde)
Subject: Looking for a position in VLSI CAD area
Keywords: VLSI, CAD, Place and Route, UNIX/C guru
Organization: Western Michigan Univ. Comp. Sci. Dept.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:02:10 GMT



Dear Prospective Employers:

I am looking for a job in the area of VLSI CAD. Enclosed find my resume
for your perusal. 

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FOR THE EMPLOYERS IN CALIFORNIA:
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I am planning on attending ICCAD92 at Santa Clara during November 8-12, 1992. 
If you have a suitable position and if you are interested in interviewing me 
I shall be available during the ICCAD week. You may send me an email to
schedule an interview.

Sincerely,

-Siddharth

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                               Siddharth Bhingarde
              1940, Howard Street, Apt. \# 492, Kalamazoo, MI 49008.
                 Phone home: (616)-387-7418, work: (616)-387-5645 
                          email: bhingard@cs.wmich.edu
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CAREER OBJECTIVE:

     To work in a research and development environment in place and route area.
     In particular, to develop new partitioning, placement and  routing 
     algorithms for standard cells, FPGAs and MCMs and to design layouts.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

  o  M.S. (Computer Science), Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, 1992,
     GPA 4.0/4.0.
     - Area of Concentration: Design and analysis of algorithms for VLSI place 
       & route.
     - Topic of Thesis: Optimal cell design and over-the-cell routing for 
       standard cell designs.

  o  B.Sc. (Computer Technology; Hardware and Software), Watumull Institute, 
     University of Bombay, India, 1989, First Class with Distinction. 

COMPUTER KNOWLEDGE:

  o  VLSI Design Automation Tools and Languages: MAGIC, HED, L-Edit, Spice, 
     VHDL.

  o  Languages and Software: C++, C, C  and Bourne Shell, X-Windows, X-View, 
     SunView, Interface Builder and Various other Utilities on NeXT, TCP/IP, 
     Pascal, sed, awk, yacc.

  o  Machines & Operating Systems: SUN/UNIX, NeXT/MACH, VAX/(VMS, ULTRIX), 
     PDP11- 44/RMX 11-M+, IBM PC-AT Compatible/(XENIX, MS-DOS).

EMPLOYMENT:

  o  May. 1992 - present: Development Engineer, Cascade Software Technology 
     International, Inc., Kalamazoo, MI.  Responsible for:
     - developing hierarchical layout design methodology in an interactive and 
       flexible VLSI layout design system, on SUN/UNIX using C/X-View.
     - developing advance graphics interfaces for database systems, on SUN/UNIX 
       using C/X-View.

  o  Sept. 1991 - Apr. 1992: Research Assistant, VLSI research lab, Department 
     of Computer Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
     - research on new algorithms for VLSI design automation.
     - research on optimal cell designs for over-the-cell routing. 
     - developed an integrated three-layer global, channel and over-the-cell 
       routing system called OSCAR, for standard cell designs, on SUN/UNIX 
       using C/X-View.
     - implemented an algorithm for pin assignment.

  o  Jan. 1991 - Aug. 1991: Systems Analyst (part time), Faculty Resource Lab., 
     Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.
     - developed an interactive tape backup utility on VAX/VMS using DCL and 
       pascal.
     - provided consultancy to the faculty of WMU in their computer related 
       projects.

  o  Jan. 1989 - June 1990: Engineer, Research and Development Department,
     Press Trust of India, Bombay, India.
     - developed an Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS) (6 months)
     - developed an editor's workstation (6 months) 
     - developed the operators interface for AMSS (4 months)
     - developed the standby system to AMSS (2 months)
     - all the above projects are developed in XENIX/C environment.

PUBLICATIONS:

  -  "Middle Terminal Cell Model for Efficient Over-the-cell Routing", to 
     appear in the Proceedings of EDAC-EUROASIC 93, Paris, France.
     (co-authors: A. Panyam and N. Sherwani)
  -  "On Optimum Cell Models for Over-the-cell Routing", to appear in the 
     Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on VLSI Design}, 1993,
     Bombay, India.  (co-authors: A. Panyam and N. Sherwani)
  -  "OSCAR: A Novel Over-the-cell Router for New Cell Model", available 
     as Tech.  Report, No. 92-27, Department of Computer Science, Western 
     Michigan University, submitted.  (co-author: N. Sherwani)
  - "On Upper and Lower Bounds of Logic Partitioning", available as Tech.  
     Report, No. 92-29, Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan 
     University, submitted.
  -  "Finding Maximum Split Subgraph in a Graph", available as Tech. Report, 
     No. 90-23, Department of Computer Science, Western Michigan University.
     (co-authors: M. Hossain and N. Sherwani)
  -  "3D Hierarchical Multichip Module Router", under preparation. 
     (co-author: N. Sherwani)
  -  "Over-the-cell Routing", research book, under preparation. 
     (co-author: N. Sherwani)

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS:

  -  On the Honor Role of C.S. Dept., Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,
     MI, 1991.
  -  Watumull Foundation Scholarship, 1990.
  -  R. D. Sethna's Scholarship, 1990.
  -  Kulapati's Award for Academic Excelence, 1986.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

  -  Student Member, Association of Computer Machinery (ACM).
  -  Student Member, ACM Special Interest Group in Design Automation (SIGDA).
  -  Student Member, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the Computer Science  Honor Society.
  -  Member of the team representing Western Michigan University at ACM
     regional programming contest, to be held in Ohio, November 1992.

REFERENCES:
    Available upon request.