Abhilash Betanamudi

abhibetanamudi@gmail.com · +91.9494380531 · abhilash.betanamudi (Skype)

Achievements
• Holds a full patent. Betanamudi, Abhilash. 2018. An arrangement and method for detection of a type
of conductive object from a predetermined range of plurality of conductive objects above a surface. Indian
Patent 308506, filed March 3, 2018, and granted March 5th, 2019.
• Among the top 1% to clear All India Engineering Entrance Examination in 2012

Experience
SPSYSTEMS Hyderabad, India
Co-founder / Lead Engineer June ’16 – present
• Worked from ideation to production of multiple electronic products.
• Determined the optimal product system architecture using the specified product goals.
• Involved in detailed engineering and created functional, high-fidelity, production intent
prototypes while keeping in view of the manufacturing feasibility and NRE analysis.
• Developed and deployed connected hardware connected via WiFi,Bluetooth.
• Developed Firmware and custom Bootloaders.
• Designed high density multi layered boards which include digital as well as mixed-signal
designs.

Projects
• Sensor System for electronic game board for Chess
Overview : Developed a novel inductive sensing system to be used in electronic game
board applications resulting in low cost and accurate sensors for game
broadcasting
Responsibilities
– Developed a resource efficient design with STM32F401, two TI’s LDC1614 and a LDC1101
– Developed planar PCB inductors with near uniform magnetic field. This is achieved by
employing extensive EM simulations using Ansys maxwell modeling suite.
– Designed the sensor system with low power considerations achieving less than 10uA at
standby.
• Sensor System for electronic game board for GO
Overview : Designed, developed and manufactured inductive sensing system with
361(19x19) sensors to be used for e-board for GO. This is the first scalable
design of a GO e-board ever.
Responsibilities
– Mitigated DFM challenges presented due to incorporating 361 sensors on a large PCB.
– Developed a novel multiplexing schema for high SNR from sensor clusters.
– Developed a processing architecture with six low cost micro-controllers working in an
orchestrated fashion to enable real time data processing/enhancement.
– Implemented predictive/adaptive sensor data thresholding.
 • Automated Flash, Test and Analysis Rig
Overview : Developed a Flash, test and analysis rig for flashing firmware and stream-
ing sensor data from production boards to perform test, analysis and
sensor calibration
Responsibilities
– Implemented USB DFU device class for easy firmware upgrade via usb port.
– Implemented systems in MATLAB to analyze streamed sensor data and find sensor fields
with non-nominal readings and suggest software calibration for those sensor fields.
– Implemented a comprehensive test environment complete with GUI using electron js.
• Low power Audio module
Overview : Developed and integrated a low power audio module to an existing mass
market product giving it audio abilities
Responsibilities
– Implemented firmware on STM32L471 with freeRTOS, MP3 decoder, I2S driver for CS4344
and TLV320DAC3203.
– Wrote scripts for converting MP3 into mono, 48kbps raw file.
– Made use of low power firmware and hardware design techniques to the keep the power
consumption well below 0.1uA in standby mode.
• IAP for existing product
Overview : Developed and integrated an In circuit Application programmer to an
existing product
Responsibilities
– Implemented a custom bootloader for SMT32L471RG for reading the new firmware packets
via I2C and placing them at appropriate memory location.
• Internet of Things
Overview : Integrated wifi and BLE modules with several products
Responsibilities
– Implemented a customized API compatible server for interacting with devices speaking the
spark-protocol from Particle.io
– Enabled OTA firmware upgrades to existing products.
• Created several Single Board Computers and their custom BSPs with specific optimizations
for ultra low power applications.

Education
National Institute of Technology. Calicut Calicut, India
B Tech. in Electronics & Communications Engineering 2012 – 2016
SRM Junior College Hyderabad, India
11th and 12th (MPC) 2009 – 2011
Brilliant Grammar High School Hyderabad, India
10th Standard 2009

Projects as student
• Contiki OS port on STM32F4.
• Worked on Electric field Imaging.
• Designed and implemented an Embedded music player, along with implementing FAT32 file
system onto an SD card storage of 1GB or below.
• Designed and built a line following maze solver, using an arduino-micro, Vishay’s single packaged
optical sensors(TSSP-HA) and a novel PID algorithm.
 • Fabricated an ATMEL ATMEGA universal flasher, by reconfiguring fuse bits and implementing
USB v1.1 (using open source USBASP).
• Built a line following robot using an ATMEL ATMEGA16, IR sensor array, H bridge motor driver.
• Designed and built a wrestling robot using an Arduino UNO, stepper motors, servo, and a
Bluetooth Module(for controlling via symbian mobile).

Skills
Programming Languages : C, Embedded C, Javascript, Typescript.
Systems Modeling: : MATLAB, GNU Octave.
System programming : IAR EWARM, TI Code Composer Studio, GNU Arm Embedded
Toolchain.
ECAD Tools : Altium, Mentor graphics xpedition, Eagle, Kicad.
EM simulations : ANSYS Maxwell, COMSOL.
Embedded controllers : 32-bit Cortex M7, M4, M3 & M0 Microcontrollers from ST mi-
croelectronics and NXP. 16-bit Texas Instruments MSP430 series
8-bit Atmel AVR (ATxmega, Atmega, ATtiny & AT90USB series).

Interests
Non-exhaustive and in alphabetical order: Anime, Board games, chess, cooking, history, Hitch-
hiker’s guide to galaxy, manga, music, philosophy, software engineering (methodologies), space
and UI/UX-design.