Akash Kumar Gupta is seeking a position in an environment of growth and excellence. He has experience designing analog and digital integrated circuits including a charge pump based energy harvesting system. He has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Hyderabad and Bachelor's degree from Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology. His skills include circuit design and layout using CAD tools like Cadence Virtuoso. He has published work on power efficient reconfigurable charge pumps for energy harvesting and won design contests.

1. Akash Kumar Gupta
ADDRESS: Room No.-314, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Email id- ee12m1004@iith.ac.in
Contact No. +91-7842662472
Career Objective
To succeed in an environment of growth and excellence, to work with commitment and sincerity
for the whole some benefit and wellbeing of the organization.
Profile
 Successfully Taped-out Chip for micro scale energy harvesting in UMC 180 nm
technology
 CADENCE DESIGN CONTEST 2014 All India Winners in the Master's category
 Sound knowledge of Analog/Digital IC Circuit Design, Device physics and Memory
Design
 Designed charge pump based DC-DC converter and voltage doubler based startup circuit.
 Designed Power Management Block for energy harvesting unit
 Designed low power Comparator, POR and BGR circuit
 Hands on experience in Layout Design in UMC 180 nm technology
 Familiar with CAD tools, programing language
 Possess strong interpersonal, organizational, self-management skills
Education
 July 2012-June 2015 Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering (Microelectronics
and VLSI), Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
% / CGPA-- 8.67
 July 2007-June 2011 Bachelor of Technology in Electronic and Communication
Engineering, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology
% / CGPA-- 72.14
 2012-- Gate Percentile
98.73
Software Skills
Programming Languages: C, Data structure, Verilog HDL, Assembly Programming (8085,
8086), MATLAB
Tools: Circuit Simulator CADENCE virtuoso, Layout Design with DRC, LVS and PEX using
Calibre with Cadence Virtuoso interface, Modelsim, Xilinx ISE, SILVACO TCAD (Process and
Device)
Projects
M.Tech. Thesis: Charge Pump based Ultra Low Power Micro Scale Energy Harvesting System
for Low Power Application

2. Supervisor: Dr. Asudeb Dutta, Assistant Professor, EE, IIT Hyderabad.
Description: Energy harvesting from natural ambient like solar, thermal and vibrational
transducer has emerged as a promising solution to tackle power supply challenges in
miniaturized devices such as wireless sensor node, biomedical implants etc. We aim to design a
fully on chip energy harvesting system for wearable and portable devices using charge pump,
thus eliminating the need for off chip inductor. In this work, energy is scavenged from single
transducer (solar/thermal) at very low voltage (150-450 mV). The system involves a simple feed
forward MPPT unit, battery management and power management unit along with an independent
cold start up circuit to trigger system from zero charge condition.
Contributions
 Design of charge pump based DC-DC converter for energy harvesting from solar and
thermal transducers.
 Design of sensor circuit to detect the environmental conditions, so as to turn on and turn
off the power converter element for power saving.
 Design of battery management unit to protect battery from under voltage as well as over
voltage. Also, it facilitates to turn on startup circuit when battery voltage drains out.
 This design has been successfully Taped out in UMC 180 nm technology. Cadence
Virtuoso has been used as the tool for entire design flow. The GDSII has been sent to the
EUROPRACTICE IC Services offered by IMEC for fabrication.
Software Used Cadence Virtuoso, Analog Design Environment 180nm technology
Course Projects
 Power efficient reconfigurable charge pump for micro scale energy harvesting.
A charge pump with high voltage step up ratio is essential to boost the voltage from tiny
transducer as well as to charge an energy buffer for storage. Conventional Linear and
Fibonacci charge pumps have better current deriving capabilities at higher and lower
voltage ranges, respectively. So we design reconfigurable charge pump topology which
can utilize merits of both Linear and Fibonacci charge pumps for wide range of input
voltage.
 Low complexity algorithm for linear system solver
This project mainly aims at exploring the symmetry potential of determinant computation
based on the conventional approach of cofactor expansion of determinant calculation.
 SRAM Memory Design
256x64 SRAM cell design using 65nm technology considering the parasitic effect of
wires using RC delay modeling in Cadence Virtuoso to analyze timing for read and write
operation of critical path.

3. Relevant Courses
VLSI Technology, Analog IC Design, Digital IC Design and verification, Embedded Memory
Design, Advanced Digital circuit Design, Embedded Design Systems, Semiconductor Device
and Modeling, Digital signal processing
Publication
Gupta, A.K., Joshi, A., Gajare, V., Ghanshyam, H.S. Dutta, A. “Power efficient
reconfigurable charge pump for micro scale energy harvesting”, Microelectronics and
Electronics (Prime Asia), 2013 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research
Achievements
 CADENCE DESIGN CONTEST 2014 All India Winners in the Master's category for the
project title "Inductor Less Reconfigurable Charge Pump Based Micro Scale Energy
Harvesting"
 Winner of Quiz Competition conducted by VEDAIIT on “Microelectronics & Analog
Mixed signal Design” with Quiz Master Sam George, Director of Global Foundries.
 Runner up for Intra IIT carom tournament 2013
 3rd
prize for ROBOTICS in Kolaahal-09 (College Technical Festival)
 2nd
prize in Skit competition held at B.B.D.I.T (Ghaziabad)
 Participated in Robo Olympiad in Incord-2009 (the annual technical fest of HBTI )
Hobbies
Playing (Badminton, cricket), running, swimming, gym, watching movies,
socializing with friends
I hereby declare that the information furnished above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Akash Kumar Gupta