YLP 2015-2016 - Assignment I Report

Qualcomm India Private Limited—Bangalore Design Centre MARCH 2016 Report—Assignment 1

INTRODUCTION—YLP BATCH 2015-2016What is Young Leaders Program?In its 4th Edition, the flagship program of BDC—the Rotation Program—was re-introduced as‘Young Leaders Program’ for the batch of 2015 RCGs. Every year this program consists of 10RCGs who work in 3 teams over a period of 14 months – one team from each domain – front-end, back-end and post-silicon. This year, an application & selection framework was introducedto create more buy-in from theparticipants and 9 Engineers wereselected to be a part of YoungLeaders Program (YLP). They arecollectively called the YLP Fellows.Sachi continues to be the guidinglead and sponsor of the programalong with Sriram Satakopan,Anand Bhat and Raghu Babuplaying an active role in driving various activities of the program. Other YLP Council Membersare Viji Ranganna, Sai Ganapathy and Siddesh Halavarthi.In addition to the rechristening, based on the feedback received from previous batches, some keychanges were introduced: Creation of a robust selection process for getting admission into the program, which includes SOP application, résumé review and personal interviews with YLP Council Members; this led to having more enthusiastic & engaged participants in the Program in comparison to the previous batches, who were allotted Rotation Program at the time of onboarding without a choice Supervisor orientation at the beginning of team assignments to set clear expectations with the managers who would coach YLP Fellows Spacing the duration of each rotation in such a manner that the YLP Fellows will join their full-time teams at the beginning of the performance cycle Feedback documentation post each rotation from supervisors as well as the direct reports; this would be the reference point for performance appraisals Solicitation of feedback about the supervisors after each rotation Closure meetings post each rotation with presentations on their project by YLP Fellows, Q&A, and thank you note for supervisors Introduction of program Logo and slogan to create a sense of association and team spiritThe Young Leaders Program continues the essence of the Rotation Program, while addingflexibility and dynamism to the selection process and assignments. In this program, we hope togo on inspiring and producing the leaders of the industry at an early age, through its motto:“Learn. Leap. Lead”.

FIRST ASSIGNMENT—EXPERIENCESThe first assignment of YLP 2015 saw the Fellows work on innovative and exciting projects.Working for 4 months (10th August to 14th December), they developed their profiles andgained a broad knowledge about the operation of their teams, leading to four Fellows achievinga Qualstar for their efforts. They are currently on their second assignments, and look forward tolearning and experimenting with new ideas in their domains. “I worked on developing “My project involved writing two Feedthrough pin placement code modules from scratch; I liked checkers, and learning the PD the work a lot. I was introduced to flow for a block; it was quite the VLSI industry through hands- Anshik Gangwar Camera HW & DVSiddharth Srivastava challenging and I learnt a lot .” on experience.” PD HMShreya Turmari “I closed a small HM following “I worked on designing an FT pin Nikitha E PD HM the entire PD flow. It was checker system. The experience PD HM particularly challenging for me because I had to understand all was really nice and I grasped a lot the concepts first.” of the PD flow in a very short time.”Gowtham Gopal “I got the opportunity to work “My role was to generate .libs for Vishwas Gopinath BE_CAD on different projects which given memory blocks using the Memory Char included working on scripts, layouts, and tool testing.” Qualcomm flow, check the quality of the libs and fix any violations.”Koteswar Rao “My task was to do formal “I understood the QC flow for Nishchal Shukla CPU PD verification and support the fixes Power strategies and Power Intent CPU Design in the design. I ran the tests and Engines, followed by analysis and made changes that would rectify the problem in the netlist itself.” error-reporting of CLP for NazgulQ at RTL level.”Awarded Qualstar Kunal Punjabi Physical Design “My overall experience was great. It helped me get an overview of the entire physical design process.”

YLP—WHO’S WHOYLP Council Members Sachidanand VaradarajanSriram Satakopan Anand Bhat Raghu Babu Aditi YadavViji Ranganna Siddesh Halavarthi Sai GanapathyThanking the Supervisors (Assignment I)Thenappan Meyyappan Amal Alex Shailendra Pratap Singh Anupam RajoriaAnukul Rangarajan Jitendra Adwani Guneet Singh Sushad MTo know more about the Young Leaders Program, contact:Aditi YadavE-Mail: [email protected]: +91-80-393-74855