- SoC & Chiplet Architecture
- Design-for-Test
- Functional Safety
Varun Singh
I work on how large chips are architected, designed, connected, tested, and proven correct.
Digital design and DFT leader with 10+ years across SoC integration, system IP development, and test infrastructure. Delivered 5+ high-volume production SoCs and 2 production IPs for automotive, industrial, and AI markets.

Industry experience
Tenstorrent
2026 –
AI & HPC silicon
Cadence
2022 – 2026
IP R&D
Texas Instruments
2017 – 2022
Automotive & industrial SoCs
Luxima Technology
2016 – 2017
CMOS image sensors
- U.S. patents
- 12issued
6 invention families · 6 more pending
- production SoCs
- 5+shipped
Automotive, industrial, AI
- in silicon
- 10+years
Across 16nm to 1.4nm nodes
- production IPs
- 2commercial
NoC and DFT infrastructure
Selected work
Four programmes that shipped, spanning interconnect, test infrastructure, and full-lifecycle SoC integration.
- 01Cadence · 2022–26
JANUS non-coherent NoC IP
Design lead for a packet-based, wire-optimized, generatable, FuSa-compliant network-on-chip. Now offered commercially as Cadence IP.
- NoC
- ISO 26262
- RTL generation
- 02Cadence · 2023–26
DFT-specific test network
Pioneered a network architecture that distributes test across an SoC automatically, in-field or on ATE. Validated on advanced-node (1.4nm) customer test chips.
- DFT
- In-field test
- 1.4nm
- 03Texas Instruments · 2017–22
Memory self-repair & PBIST
Architected improved memory built-in self-repair delivering measurable yield gain and reduced FIT rate in production, plus 16nm PBIST infrastructure for ASIL-D certification.
- MBIST
- Yield
- ASIL-D
- 04Texas Instruments · 2017–22
TDA4 & AM64x SoC integration
Microarchitect for clocking, debug, and power on the Jacinto 7 ADAS platform; led top-level integration across 5+ automotive and industrial SoCs.
- SoC integration
- ADAS
- 16nm
Membership & service
IEEE
2026
Senior Member
Elevated by an Admission and Advancement review panel, a grade held by roughly the top ten per cent of IEEE members.
DATE 2027
2027
Technical Program Committee
Architectural and microarchitectural design track at Design, Automation and Test in Europe, one of the field’s principal design-automation conferences.
Education & certification
M.S. Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California · 2017
B.Tech. Electronics & Communication
SRM Institute of Science and Technology · 2015
ISO-26262 Functional Safety Engineer
SGS-TÜV Saar
ISO/SAE 21434 Cybersecurity Engineer
TÜV SÜD