High performance customizable DDR PHY

By Nidhir Kumar (Krivi Semiconductor)

Biography

Nidhir brings 14 years of IP experience to Krivi. Prior to founding Krivi, Nidhir was architect and lead for DDR PHY and IO pad library at ARM. Along with most of the Krivi founding team, he was responsible to build DDR3 PHY with industry's leading PPA. He is an architect for many of the DDR, LVDS, USB, GPIO and crystal oscillators libraries used in popular consumer devices. He have worked through full cycle of SoC design including circuit design, RTL, P&R, ESD, signal Integrity, silicon testing etc. He has 5 approved and 7 pending US patents. Nidhir has strong inclination for academics and mentoring. He has delivered full day tutorial in VLSI Conference'2008 on interface technology. Prior to ARM, he has worked on testchips, DLL and PLL at STMicroelectronics.