Himanshu Mangal
Design Enginner
Freescale Semiconductor
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Choosing between money and job satisfaction
Job Satisfaction is most important because it keeps you happy throughout your professional life. You will be able to concentrate on your work and perform better which will ultimately lead to good salary.
My journey in corporate world
I joined Freescale Semiconductors as a design engineer. I got the opportunity to work on latest technologies in VLSI field. I have so far worked on 90ns, 55nm, 40nm technology. Journey has been good so far with lot of learnings. Most important thing is to maintain work life balance .
Area of specialization
Security within Embedded Systems.
Design Architecture for Low Power implementation of VLSI System on Chip
Design of High Speed Processors to sustain the growing demand of SPEED.
My job profile
I am a physical design engineer at Freescale. My work includes efficient placement of logic on die, building clock tree with minimum skew and minimum power consumption, efficient routing of signals, noise analysis of design, timing closure of design.
My rewards
My accomplishments include successful completion of projects on latest technologies in field of VLSI.
Language with embedded systems
System Verilog
Advice to professionals
Be passionate about your work. Always ask questions. Always try to improve with innovation. Be energetic and confident at office.
After 5 years
I have not considered that long. I beleive in enjoying the moment and giving best in whatever you do.
Books recommended
www.eetimes.com
www.edn.com
Books : An Introduction to VLSI Physical Design by C.K.Wong
Verilog HDL by Samir Palnetkar
My family background
My hometown is Agra. My father is working in State Bank of India. My mother is a housewife. I have a younger sister who is also doing engineering.
Role model
Steve Jobs, because he inspires us to think differently. We can drive innovation only by thinking differently.
My view on India Technical development
I think a lot of organizations are investing on Embedded System operations in India. The need of hour is to bridge gap between educational institutes in India and professional Organisations through knowledge sharing.