Nayan Ramam

01 — Selected Projects

Projects

Ring VCO Design + Layout

Designed a current-starved ring-oscillator VCO in Cadence Virtuoso (Sky130 PDK). Verified across ff/tt/ss corners and temperature sweep of 0–70°C; added an inverter buffer to drive 1 pF load within power spec.

Analog IC Design Analog Layout Cadence Virtuoso Cadence Maestro/ADE Explorer

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Teleoperated Pipe Building Robot

A pipe crawling robot with PWM servo driving, wireless control using ESP-NOW, and live video/telemetry monitoring via RTSP.

Embedded Systems/Programming Robotics Wireless Communication

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GCD Module ASIC Design

Full stack ASIC design of a module to calculate the greatest common denominator of two integers. Wrote RTL, simulated in ModelSim, developed testbench with CRV, ran physical design flow in Cadence Innovus.

ASIC Design/Verification SystemVerilog ModelSim

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AI Powered Virtual Synthesizer

A virtual synthesizer with AI-powered preset generation for real-time music synthesis and sound exploration. Built on JUCE C++ framework, integrated with Python script using OpenAI API.

DSP (JUCE) C++ Python for AI

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