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Nishant Welcomes You Perseverentia omnia vincit - Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration. |
Graduate Student, Illinois Institute of
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"Time magazine 1957 " To all industrial needs , and most human physical needs, the electronic magicians are sure they have the key".
-Keep Trying . Remember Edison's word " at least we know 8,000 things that don't work".
-THINKING about THINKING improves THINKING
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I am, Nishant Rajan Srivastava , MS student in Electrical Engineering with Computer Engineering as my Major , at Illinois Institute Of Technology, Chicago. Special interest in hardware design with hardware implementation of Computer arithmetic and algorithms and low power VLSI design.Above are the links to my projects, my research work in the topic of SRT division circuits ( Pentium Bug fame), link to my VLSI page, link to summary of many technical papers ( I have read many more than listed above , just not getting the time to put it on web) in which I have tried to provide some information. I am working on few other things also, which I will keep adding in due course of time.
I will be graduating in Dec 2002 and presently looking for a career in the field of Electrical Engineering . Also, planning and looking for further options to go for higher studies with Phd in VLSI field with it's application in various different fields.
My research interests include designing hardware for complex algorithms and computer arithmetic , low power VLSI . I am also looking for opportunity for working with analog VLSI . I am currently working with Dr. James Stine and suggesting a new method for SRT division Algorithm ( The Pentium bug fame). This algorithm will reduce the latency required for division and also the area required for division for higher radices. I have worked for developing a a simple 8-bit processor ALU , custom and standard cell layout of of a 16 bit carry look ahead adder , implementation of Low power SRT division circuit with PLA, SRT division circuit without a PLA using estimation and correction and presently working on 16 bit Parallel Prefix Adder using Brent Kung tree. Other project links can be found on the link of my projects above.
I completed my BS in Electrical Engineering from Poona ( Pune) University, India , June 1997 and in Aug 1997 Joined Gharda Ltd as Trainee Engineer . Maintained electrical equipments and worked for ISO documentation.In Feb 1998 I joined Reliance Industries Ltd, the largest private sector of India and my main professional carrier started . Worked on World's Largest Grassroot refinery -RPL (Reliance Petroleum Ltd). It was a great experience working with people from all round the globe, people from USA, Britain, Holland, Israel, Australia and many other countries. The engineering was done by Bechtel and technology was from UOP, USA. Shell did the inspection and auditing work.
People always ask me- what was an electrical engineer with interest in Hardware doing in a refinery?
I worked on all the latest technologies in the electrical field - Numerically Controlled Relays, Digital Control Systems, Centralized Control of all the process equipments on Fiber Optic Cables, communication equipments like modems , data concentrators, application specific soft wares etc . Name a thing related to Electrical field and it was there. Commissioned and maintained electrical and instrumentation equipments doing the hardware part. It involved commissioning and testing, on site changes in design, coordinating with design teams, making the daily, weekly and monthly progress reports as per the man-hours allocated. The project on it's peak involved nearly two hundred thousand people. It was a 6 billion US $ project . Who can resist such an opportunity? I can't.
In Feb 1999 I was designated as Assistant Manager. The project days were killing with all the deadlines and the joy of achieving the targets, it was a race against time. It?s mentionable that this project was commissioned in two years of time setting world records in project history, no such large scale project has ever been completed in such a short span of time any where in the world. After the project was over I was selected in the design team. Reliance is setting up a high band fiber optic backbone throughout India and I was supposed to be working on it but I realized that to attain maximum knowledge in hardware field I have to get into the basic core of hardware and the desire to do more and learn more was always there. This project brought me in contact with people from all over the world and I learned that to really achieve the excellence and to learn more in my specific area of interest I have to be where the real action is. My BS degree had given me enough to reach that far but the desire to learn more brought me to US for pursuing my higher studies. Hardware always interested me so I decided to major in Hardware/ VLSI design.
and the never ending quest to know goes on.........................
My +ve point - I am an optimistic.
My -ve point - The markets are crashing. The world is at war. Nothing seems to be going the right way. I am still an optimistic.
The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.-----Jennifer James
Contact me at - [email protected] / [email protected]