Hanumanthappa S H Mobile No: +91-9686810929

Email: hanumanthash@gmail.com

Career Objective

Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilitissses in the Embedded industry that offers professional
growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible.

Experience Summary

Designation Organization Experience

Senior Member of technical Mar 23rd, 2020, to Till Date
Mavenir Systems
Staff III
HCL technologies (Keysight Feb 13th, 2019, to Mar 23rd, 2020.
Technical lead
technologies Blore/UK )
Staff Engineer MediaTek Inc Nov 13th, 2018, to Feb 10th, 2019.

R&D specialist Nokia Solutions and March 25th, 2015, to 13th Nov 2018
Networks

Sr software Engineer Tata Elxsi Limited, Bangalore December 2010 – March 23rd, 2015,

 Around 10+ years of experience in design and development of commercial embedded software
for 4G/2G wireless systems worked on Physical Layer (Layer 1) LTE FDD, LTE-TDD 3GPP rel 8, rel
9 and Release 14 Sidelink spec (C-V2X), GSM IoT(EC-GSM) systems.
 6 Months onsite experience at Client place Tel Aviv, ISRAEL for MAC-PHY interface and code
modification and integration.
 3 Month of onsite experience at Client place, Beijing, China for L1 SW support for integration.
 Good exposure to Embedded Programming in C.
 Good Knowledge in LTE FDD, LTE-TDD, OFDM, MIMO and single carrier systems.
 Experience in MATLAB Model Development for different wireless standards.
 Good exposure to Complex problem solving and debugging.

Patents: File patent in india and USA,

file grated for INDIA APP NO: IN202011002917 and in USA: US11501622B2
Patent based on ‘Cellular network based explosive detection, accurate estimation of explosive co-
ordinates and alerting mechanism’.
United States patent center :
https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/applications/17147997
Google patents link: https://patents.google.com/patent/US11501622B2/en?
inventor=Hanumanthappa+S+H
Work Experience On:

1. Worked on the implementation of LTE system level features like runtime reconfiguration
support adding into the existing system and Carrier lock/unlock.
2. LTE energy saving feature i.e dynamically adopting/changing the 4x4 ant to 2x2 processing
without stopping L1.
3. Worked on FEC bit processing optimization (i.e HARQ combining, iteration optimization for
turbo decoder).
4. L1-L2 interface timing optimization.
5. Developing the framework for module level IQ collecting, optimized for specific cell level,
module and RNTI based IQ collection.
6. Developing the framework for tti logging which log bit processing and symbol processing
configuration during runtime.
7. Testmac and PHY SW support for radio RCT validation to meet the 3GPP 36.104 chapter 8 and
36.141.
(i.e Sensitivity/performance requirement validation) for uplink phy channels.
8. Receiver algorithm and HARQ combining/decoder performance validation with different noise
level and channel model EPA, EVA, ETU using TESTAPP framework.
9. Working the optimization approaches for saving the cpu cycles in system.
10. Worked on the DL/UL BLER improvement and KPI improvement wrt L1.
11. Worked on intel mount brace HW FEC on FLEXRAN code integration and testing.
12. Worked on fixing the field functional issues, crash issues debugging and fixing it.
13. Worked on implementation of TTI Bundling, PRACH foramat1.
14. Worked on LTE UE cell search module for detection of PSS, SSS and decoded of PBCH.
15. Worked on LTE UL controller SW for eNB product which configures LTE UL PHY Channels for
decoding.
16. Worked on LTE L1 controller (Phy controller) SW for Keysight product E7515B UXM.
17. Developed Layer mapping and pre-coding module in MIMO at DL Transmitter.
18. Worked on Freescale MAPLEB2 (EQPE) accelerators.
19. Worked on improvement in HARQ combining at eNB.
20. Developed LTE uplink data channel (PUSCH) receive symbol processing module (subcarrier de-
mapping) and common-symbol processing (Channel estimation, equalization and SNR
calculation) module code at eNB receiver.
21. Involved in the complete Uplink Integration activity.
22. Debugging of System Crash issues.
23. Implementation of MAC-PHY interference and migrated the code from MPI based to FAPI based
Massage sequence.
24. Developed Sounding reference signal (SRS) at Transmitter at UE side using Matlab Simulation.
25. Integrated and System Testing on MIMO with TM500 and Sigalion.

Work achievements:
 Received the 'BRAVO Award' from TATA ELXSI on March 2012
“TDD PHY Development”. – Santosh Gotur
 Received the 'BRAVO Award' from TATA ELXSI for August 2013
“20Mhz TDD PHY modification and remarkable onsite integration issues”. -- Santosh Gotur
 Received Applaud Excellence Award from NOKIA on June 4th, 2018
 “This award is in recognition of your excellent contributions towards the debugging & driving the solution for the TRX test related issues on
CPRI radio variants. Keep up the good work! -- Raghuram Jois
 Received Applaud Excellence awards from NOKIA on sept 21st 2017
“To appreciate your dedication and strong contribution to towards achieving the GSM 18 - I6 milestone. Keep up the good work!” -- Zoya
 Received Praise Excellence from NOKIA on sept 11th 2017
“Your dedication and hard work in learning and helping to solve issues under pressure was really appreciated, Hanumanthappa. Keep up
the good work! “ Zoya
 Received Applaud Excellence from NOKIA on Nov 11th 2016
“Great contribution towards successful implementation of EC-GSM IOT communication standard to GSM17 release and successful E2E
integration of the same.” -- Moloy Das
 Received Applaud Excellence from NOKIA on 23rd Dec 2015
“Excellent contribution in creating User Interface for all DSP logging and tracing tools” -- Moloy Das

Technical Skills

Operating System : Windows, Linux, Basics of RTOS

Languages : Embedded C, MATLAB Modelling.
Wireless Domain Specific: TI DSP C6670 Nyquist, Freescale 8156 and 8157), TIC6616,
LTE_FDD, LTE_TDD, EC-GSM(IoT), Lean GSM.
Wireless Software Tools : TI Code Composer Studio, MATLAB R2007a, VxWorks.
Freescale Code Warrior Development Studio
Agilent Signal Generator, Agilent Signal Analyzer, Keysight CV2X/LTE UE.
UE TM500, and Signallion, QUALCOMM QXDM and QCAT logs analyser.
Editors : Source Insight
Others : CVS, Tortoise SVN, ML, Beyond Compare, GIT.

Career Profile (starting from the most recently executed)

1. MAVENIR PROJECTS

Description:

Development and implementation of LTE PHY Release 12 features on cloud-based RAN with CU-DU-RU
architecture with ORAN compliance and phy-layer processing enabled with intel bbu pool framework
and intel FLEXRAN code which is responsible for processing IQ's.

Contribution:

 Worked on the implementation of LTE system level features like runtime reconfiguration
support adding into the existing system and Carrier lock/unlock.
 LTE energy saving feature i.e dynamically adopting/changing the 4x4 ant to 2x2 processing
without stopping L1.
 Worked on FEC bit processing optimization and FEC dynamic load distribution optimisation.
 L1-L2 interface timing optimization (wrt timeline for massage exchange between MAC-PHY).
 Implementation and integration of PRACH format1 into the flexran code, addressing interface
changes.
  Developing the framework for module level IQ collecting, optimized for specific cell level,
module and RNTI based IQ collection.
 Developing the framework for tti logging which log bit processing and symbol processing
configuration during runtime.
 Worked on implementation of LTE system features i.e TTI Bundling, PRACH foramat1,
 Matlab and Python scripts for parsing the Front-Haul packet captured data.
 FlexRAN TestMAC and SampleAPP improvement for testing L1 functional stability.
 UL Interferences KPI improvement for Frequency Selective Scheduling.
 Fastest issue resolving at customer site which improves the KPI.
Harq combining issue, scrambling issue, SINR reporting wrong value.
 Worked feature on the Mount brace intel HWFEC integration for DL encoder and UL decoder.

Technology Skills and Tools: INTEL FLEXRAN, C/C++ and VxWorks

Organization: MAVENIR, Bangalore/USA.

2. KEYSIGHT PROJECT (C-V2X)

Description:

Development and implementation of LTE R14 sidelink(C-V2X) physical channels on keysight ‘E7515B
UXM' platform which uses on AMC702(T4240). Primarily involved in LTE PHY Release 14 C-V2X feature,
PHY agent component is L1 controller SW for interfaces with MAC and CAPI as well as configuring the
sidelink channels on FPGA register for DL/UL signal chain processing.

Contribution:

 Worked on implementation of ‘Sidelink pipeline’ massage which configures the sidelink DL PHY
PSBCH, PSSCH, PSCCH channels on FPGA.
 Worked on the implementation of cell config massage which interface and conveys Cell
configuration and parameters for downlink channels.
 TX power calculation and update for PSCCH, PSSCH channels and for DMRS signal.
 Sidelink Re-Transmission Data Reception.
 Worked on the new L1_SW – FPGA interface changes for supporting multiple sidelink.

Technology Skills and Tools: AMC702(T4240), C/C++ and VxWorks

Organization: Keysight Networks, Bangalore/UK.

3. NOKIA NETWORKS PROJECTS(EC-GSM BTS and LTE VRAN projects)

Description:
Development and implementation EC-GSM BTS on Nokia FSMC platform.

Contribution:

 Involved in the Nokia LTE VRAN project.

Developed test framework for configuring and verifications of LTE PHY channels.
 Algorithm Implementation and verification of blind whitening for EC-GSM.
 Algorithm Implementation and verification of co-phasing and IQ-combining for EC-GSM.
 Complete Normal burst chain development for EC-GSM & testing with various test vectors.
 Complete Access burst chain development for EC-GSM & testing with various test vectors.
Technology Skills and Tools: TI 6616, C and CCS studio
Organization: Nokia Networks, Bangalore

4. TATA ELXSI PROJECT (LTE FDD eNB PROJECTS named ARAV)

Description:

LTE-TDD eNB on TI Platform, Designed PHY s/w for TDD-LTE for UL-DL config 1 and SSF config 3 will be
hosted in Freescale multicore DSP MSC8157 platform which is responsible to process the digital IQ
samples.

Contribution:

 Implementation and Validation of PUSCH signal chain for processing samples in common
symbol process module and receive symbol process module.
 HARQ combining for PUSCH data at eNB.
 Integrated the PUSCH module with FAPI interface and validated the code on the system.
 This project gave a complete exposure to use HW in an efficient way. This involved a lot of
aspects relating to implementation and optimization.
 Worked on Freescale MAPLEB2 (EQPE) accelerator and used and implemented for our module
which is optimization of around 80% was achieved. This implementation gave a great support to
the entire signal chain as a result of which we could implement UL chain with a less time for it to
decode the data.
 With the implementation EQPE HW I could also bring in the Virtual processing element (IDFT) by
internally integrating it with EQPE HW engine that cut down most of the time that was needed
to implement IDFT as a separate engine.
 Worked on PUSCH Bit Processing De-modulation, De-scrambler, De-interleaving Rx modules.
 Validating all scenarios of PUCCH module (SR-HARQ, HARQ, CQI-HARQ).
 Worked on LTE uplink PUCCH module and responsible for implementing the TDD Bundling and
Special bundling and Multiplexing feature. For UL-DL config 1 and SSF config 3 and Validated
successfully.
 Design and Implementation of MAPLE (IFFT and FFT) related changes wrt to 8157 processors.

Technology Skills and Tools:

 Code Composer studio, C programming, Wire-shark, Signalion L3 tools,
Source Insight and Tortoise CVS, MATLAB R2007a.
Client: TELRAD (ISREA
Organization:
TATA ELXSI LTD , Bangalore

5. TATA ELXSI PROJECT (LTE project named Anveshan(Cell Search project))

Description:

3GPP LTE compliant HeNB (Femto Cell) Network Monitor Mode - Design & Development in Downlink
receiver. PHY s/w for LTE cell search will be hosted in Freescale DSP MSC8156 which is responsible to
process the digital IQ samples and detecting the PSS, SSS, MIB and SIB.

Contribution:

 Worked on Design and Implementation of PSS Detection.

 Worked on Design and Implementation of SSS Detection.
 Worked on Implementation of decoding PBCH channel.
 Involved in Implementation of PHY controller frame work for cell search.
 Worked on Design and Implementation of PCFICH channel Decoding.
 Worked on Design and Implementation of PDCCH channel Decoding.
 Worked on RRM-PHY indication massages.
 Worked on profiling of the code.

Technology Skills and Tools:

Code Composer studio, C programming, Wire-shark,
Source Insight and Tortoise CVS, MATLAB R2007a.
Client: TATA ELXSI IP
Organization:
TATA ELXSI LTD , Bangalore

6. TATA ELXSI PROJECT(LTE FDD eNB project named KABINI)

Description:

LTE-FDD eNB on Freescale Platform.

PHY s/w for FDD-LTE will be hosted in MSC 8156 which is responsible to process the digital IQ samples
received from BB unit. Client provided custom platform to port the AMC prototype solution and
validates all the supported features.

Contribution:
  Developed Layer mapping and pre-coding module in MIMO at DL Transmitter.
 Integrated and System Testing on MIMO with TM500 and Sigalion.
 Implementation and verification of PUSCH user symbol process module which includes
(resource de-mapping, Channel estimation and Equalization algorithms).
 Matlab implementation of above algorithms and integrating with rest of Matlab Rx chain.
 Implementation of Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) for UE transmitter and at eNB receiver.
 Integration and testing of above modules.
 Documentation of HLD, Unit Testing, Integration testing.

Technology Skills and Tools:

Code Warrior, C programming, Wire-shark, Signalion L3 tools,
Source Insight and Tortoise CVS, MATLAB R2007a.
Client: HITACHI(JAPAN)
Organization:
TATA ELXSI LTD , Bangalore

Education

Bachelor’s in engineering (Electronics and Communication Engineering) completed First Class with
Distinction

Miscellaneous
Part of Tata Elxsi cultural committee which organizes events for the employees
Member of Tata Elxsi team called "SAFE" which works for the underprivileged children for
Education.

Personal Information

Date of Birth : 6th August 1988

Languages Known : English, Kannada, and Hindi.
Present Address : #F304, BEL Apartment,
Near BEL Circle, Bangalore-566013.
Permanent Address: S/o Shekharappa H
#388, Mattikal, Anekonda RMC road
Davangere-77001.

Hobbies

Playing games (Cricket, chess etc).

Reading IEEE/ETSI journals and papers on latest technological advances.

Declaration
I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct to best of my knowledge.

Place: Bangalore
Date: (Hanumanthappa SH)