Aditya B Pattavardhanam

ECE Undergraduate · UVCE, Bengaluru · Summer Research Fellow ’26, IIT Madras · Samsung ISWDP Fellow, IISc · Avionics Team Lead, IISc Aerospace Engineering · Coordinator - Design & Prototyping, MARVEL UVCE · Co-Lead Product Development, MARVEL UVCE

I am a fourth-year Electronics and Communication Engineering undergraduate at the University of Visvesvaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bengaluru, specializing in analog and mixed-signal IC design. My work sits at the intersection of analog circuits, mixed-signal systems, and embedded hardware — I care about circuits that interact with the physical world at the signal level.

This summer I was a Summer Research Fellow at IIT Madras (IC Design and Testing Group, under Prof. Nagendra Krishnapura), working on FinFET benchmarking and characterization. I am also a Cohort 8 Fellow in the Samsung ISWDP program at IISc and Avionics Team Lead for Project Urdhyuth at IISc’s Department of Aerospace Engineering. On campus, I am Co-Lead of Product Development and Coordinator for Design & Prototyping at MARVEL, a student-run, alumni-funded makerspace at UVCE focused on hands-on engineering and open-source hardware.

My active technical work includes:

  • Analog IC Design — Fully analog MPPT controller targeting the SKY130A PDK (Tiny Tapeout shuttle TTSKY26c): INA → Gilbert cell multiplier → dual S&H → StrongARM comparator → integrator → PWM, designed for CubeSat power management applications
  • VLSI & FinFET Characterization — TSMC 180nm/14nm FinFET characterization in Cadence Virtuoso/Spectre across 20 PVT corners; full-custom layout, Calibre DRC/LVS/PEX, and benchmarking across PTM model nodes (7nm–20nm)
  • Comparators & Spectrum Sensing — StrongARM comparator verification in the SKY130A flow, and hardware-aware monitoring of the 865–867 MHz ISM band combining an envelope detector, CMOS StrongARM comparator, and FPGA-based FFT (Basys3)
  • Maskless Photolithography — Low-cost, open-source DLP-based maskless lithography system under the MARVEL HackerFab Initiative (engineering major project)
  • Embedded Hardware — HeartGuard HG V1.1, a reduced-lead arrhythmia detection PCB using ADS1298 + STM32F411 + BLE, targeting real-time ECG classification with minimal leads

My tool stack includes Cadence Virtuoso/Spectre, Calibre, Allegro, Xschem, ngspice, Magic, Netgen, volare, and the SKY130A PDK, across both commercial and open-source EDA workflows.

I am looking for analog design and layout internship and full-time roles. Reach me by email.