Syed Asad Alam

Past

Hardware Design Engineer at Digitek Engineering
Internee at Advanced Engineering Research Organization
VLSI Design Engineer at AVIEON Inc, USA

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Education

Linköpings universitet
NED University of Engineering and Technology
Adamjee Government Science College

Ladybird Grammar School

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Syed Asad Alam’s Summary

Digital Design Engineer with a varied experience in both verification and design with different startup companies. Experience of working on multimedia processors, communication and networking devices and SOC bus design. Developed a 64-bit multimedia processor while part of a 2 member team in academia.

Syed Asad Alam’s Specialties:

HDL Design, Behavioral Modeling and Design Verification

Syed Asad Alam’s Experience

Hardware Design Engineer

Digitek Engineering

(Computer Hardware industry)

June 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 3 months)

DIGITEK Engineering is a newly formed company in Karachi, Pakistan, with the ambition to provide world class FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array) development services for Communication and Network Hardware.
I am currently working as a Digital Design Engineer, working on both Design Verification and Design itself.
Internee

Advanced Engineering Research Organization

(Government Agency; 11-50 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)

Remained part of the Hardware Development Team. Developed an understanding of Rs-232 protocol. Also briefly studied the Spartan-3 FPGA by Xilinx. Studied UART and developed a UART Transmitter in VHDL.
VLSI Design Engineer

AVIEON Inc, USA

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

February 2006 — September 2006 (8 months)

Testing and Debugging of a Media Processor code written in Verilog HDL Preparation of test benches in Verilog HDL and automatic generation of data files using Perl.

Syed Asad Alam’s Education

Linköpings universitet

M.Sc.EE , System on Chip Design , 2008 — 2010 (expected)

Major Subjects: Design of Digital Systems, Digital Integrated Circuits, Advance VLSI Design, Low Power Electronics, VLSI Chip Design Project, Digital Filter, ASIC for DSP, Design of Embedded DSP Processor, Asynchronous Computing, System Design Project course

Activities and Societies:

Pakistan Student Association, Muslim Student Association
NED University of Engineering and Technology

B.E. , Computer Engineering , 2003 — 2006

Major Subjects : Electronics I and II, Digital Electronics, VLSI Design, Logic Design and Switching Theory I and II, Computer Organization and Architecture, Parallel Processing, Digital Signal Processing.
Adamjee Government Science College

FSc , Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry , 2000 — 2002
Ladybird Grammar School

S.S.C. , Science , 1989 — 2000