Chintan Parikh

Current

• Graduate Student in ECE department at Carnegie Mellon University

Past

• System Software Engineer at ST-Ericsson
• Software Engineer at NXP Semiconductors
• Software Engineer at Conexant

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Education

• Carnegie Mellon University
• National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

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Industry

Semiconductors

Websites

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• My Alma mater

Chintan Parikh’s Summary

Chintan Parikh’s Specialties:

Embedded Software development, debugging, C, Real time kernels, Mobile applicatons and middleware development

Chintan Parikh’s Experience

• Graduate Student in ECE department

  Carnegie Mellon University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 2009 — Present (5 months)

• System Software Engineer

  ST-Ericsson

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)

  Continued working in the same team as worked at NXP Semiconductors. (ST-Ericsson was formed in two steps, first by acquisition of NXP wireless division by STMicroelectronics to form ST-NXP Wireless and then JV between ST-NXP Wireless and Ericsson Mobile Platforms to form ST-Ericsson)

• Software Engineer

  NXP Semiconductors

  (Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)

  October 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 5 months)

  As a part of IP-Applications team, worked on MMI and Applications layer for Mobile system solutions. Module level responsible for Video Telephony, Call, Network modules and MMI engine for various product families.
  
  Also worked on integration of 3rd party software such as Obigo framework (by Teleca) onto our platform and enabling it for various products. As part of IP activity involved in development of applications to showcase platform capability.
  
  Key skills developed: Good understanding of Mobile software architecture, Usage of debugging tools such as Lauterbach Trace32, Debugging via ARM ETM traces, Knowledge of Real time kernels, Configuration management using IBM ClearCase

• Software Engineer

  Conexant

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CNXT; Semiconductors industry)

  August 2007 — September 2007 (2 months)

  Underwent Fresher’s training program which included practical exposure to following topics,
  
  Effective Programming, Linux Internals, RTOS principles and design, ARM architecture,Socket Programming and Device Driver Programming.

Chintan Parikh’s Education

• Carnegie Mellon University

  M.S. , Electrical and Computer Engineering , 2009 — 2011 (expected)

• National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli

  B.Tech , Instrumentation and Control Engineering , 2003 — 2007

  Projects:
  
  1. Final year thesis project on, "Design and analysis of new structure for minimizing effects of parasitics in Capacitive Microbeam Reasonator" , MEMS Design lab NIT Trichy under the guidance of Prof. Umapathy
  
  2. Performance evaluation of different DSP Processors
  It involved measuring performance of DSP processors by kernel benchmarking and application profiling techniques.
  
  3. Worked on design of LED based lighting and automatic flow controller at Industrial Design Center (IDC), IIT Bombay
  
  4. Worked on Analog Devices Blackfin 533 processor during two week intensive workshop on "Digital Signal Processing applications and processors" at TeNet group IIT Madras

  Activities and Societies:

  Student member of IEEE NITT chapter, spirITed (Student Participatory Initiative for Rural IT education)

Additional Information

Chintan Parikh’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Alma mater

Chintan Parikh’s Interests:

Technology trends, Exploring vast Indian history and culture

Chintan Parikh’s Groups:

IEEE, BarCamp, Mobile Monday

•    Carnegie Mellon Alumni
•    National Institute of Technology, Trichy, India - Alumni
•    NXP Semiconductors
•    ST-ERICSSON

Chintan Parikh’s Honors:

1. Ideaz Contest, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIM Ahmadabad
Won consolation prize for design of Piezoelectric based power generation for automobiles.

2. Industrial Design Contest, IIT Madras and GE, Shaastra 05
Finalist in national design contest for the design of an Artificial Nose system with memory.

3. Samadhan, Technical Festival at NIT Trichy, Pragyan 05
Secured first place for the design of RFID based time accounting system.

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