Curriculum vitae
Résumé
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.
Experience
Tenstorrent · Sr. Staff Engineer, SoC / Chiplet Design Lead
May 2026 – PresentSoC chiplet design lead for advanced SoC and chiplet architectures targeting AI, HPC, and automotive markets.
- Leading the memory chiplet effort and cross-functional teams through the full SoC lifecycle, from concept and architecture through RTL, verification, and tape-out.
Cadence Design Systems · Sr. Design Engineering Manager / Sr. Principal Design Engineer, IP R&D
Jun 2022 – May 2026Led cross-functional product development across hardware, software, DV, PD/PE, and validation for next-generation DFT IP (Modus) used by Tier-1 SoC customers.
- Design lead for JANUS IP: a packet-based, wire-optimized, FuSa-compliant non-coherent NoC, now offered commercially as Cadence IP.
- Architected a compiler-driven configurable RTL generation framework (Perl + Verilog), reducing development cycles by ~10%.
- Pioneered a DFT-specific network architecture enabling automated SoC-level test distribution (in-field or ATE), including advanced-node (1.4nm) customer test-chip validation.
- Delivered modular, partition-aware system NoC (AXI/APB/AHB) and test-infrastructure IP (LBIST/MBIST/POST/IJTAG/3DIC) for first-silicon test-chip success.
- Architecture lead for a $1M+ program directing an external service team building an in-system test controller for hyperscaler/AI in-field ASIL-D testing.
Texas Instruments · Senior Digital Design Engineer / SoC Integration Lead
Jun 2017 – Jun 2022Led the SoC integration team for silicon-proven 16nm AM64x SoCs, owning top-level RTL assembly and power/reset/clock/debug microarchitecture.
- Microarchitect for clocking, debug, and power on the TDA4 (Jacinto 7) ADAS platform; integrated IP across TDA4 and AM62x (5+ SoCs), enabling cross-platform reuse.
- 16nm PBIST memory-test IP owner and architect. Built run-time PBIST infrastructure and custom programmable BIST algorithms for ASIL-D and ASIL-B certification.
- Architected an improved memory built-in self-repair delivering measurable yield improvement and reduced FIT rate across production devices.
- Reduced design cycles by 10% through SoC integration flow automation; supported post-silicon debug, ECO resolution, and ATE V/F Shmoo validation through production ramp.
Luxima Technology · Digital Design Co-Op Engineer
May 2016 – May 2017Digital blocks (ADC/LVDS driver) on CMOS image-sensor products.
- Built an FPGA-based high-speed camera system on Virtex-7 for automated wafer defect inspection.
Patents
12 granted U.S. patents across 6 invention families in memory built-in self-repair, memory test, power-on-reset and reset isolation, clock alignment and distributed test power control, with 3 pending.Full record →
Skills
- SoC integration
- Chiplet architecture
- Design-for-Test (DFT)
- Memory test: PBIST/MBIST/LBIST
- Network-on-Chip architecture
- Functional safety: ISO 26262
- Built-in self-repair
- Post-silicon validation
SystemVerilog, Verilog, Perl, TCL, Python, C/C++ · CDC, Lint, DFT, LEC, Genus, Modus, Voltus, DC, TetraMAX, VC LP
Education & certification
- M.S. Electrical Engineering · University of Southern California2017
- B.Tech. Electronics & Communication · SRM Institute of Science and Technology2015
- ISO-26262 Functional Safety Engineer · SGS-TÜV Saar
- ISO/SAE 21434 Cybersecurity Engineer · TÜV SÜD
Contact: varun@iamvarunsingh.com