suneel K

Pre & Post Silicon (SOC) Validation Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

I'm a SOC/IP Validation professional with over 10 years of experience in validating USB2.0,Ethernet,DDR,eMMC and other peripherals like SPI,I2C,UART,DMA Controller....etc. ๐Ÿ’ก My Core strengths include : ๐Ÿ“Œ ARM architecture, C and Embedded C programming ๐Ÿ“Œ Good protocol knowledge of HSIO IP's USB, Ethernet, DDR & UFS ๐Ÿ“Œ USB Device & Host mode compliance testing and electrical validation ๐Ÿ“Œ SERDES based System Designs ๐Ÿ“Œ Silicon Debug and board bring-up ๐Ÿ“Œ Debugging RTL code and firmware drivers ๐Ÿ“Œ SOC boot flow, iROM booting ๐Ÿ“Œ eUSB PHY, eUSB repeater, Low/Full/High/Super speed enumeration process ๐Ÿ“Œ 10GMAC, XGMII/SGMII/GMII/RMII interfaces, Auto-negotiation process. ๐Ÿ“Œ DDR training and initialization.

Experience

  • FPGA Validation Engineer at Lattice Semiconductor
    Jan 2026 - Present ยท 6 mos

    USB 3.2 Gen1 functional and electrical validation.

  • Senior Staff Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor
    May 2023 - Mar 2025 ยท 1 yr 11 mos

  • Post Silicon Validation Engineer at Intel Corporation
    Jan 2022 - May 2023 ยท 1 yr 5 mos

  • IP Validation Engineer at Microsemi Corporation
    Apr 2016 - Sep 2022 ยท 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Graduate Engineer Trainee at Synopsys Inc
    Aug 2015 - Mar 2016 ยท 8 mos

    1. Worked on Automation using Perl & TCL scripting 2. Experience in validating Synopsys Tools using automation 3. Good Exposure on Synopsys tools like Synpify, Identify, Protocompiler