Rishi Graham



PO Box 258 Tomales, Ca 94971
Home Phone:707-878-2345
Fax:707-878-2079
melkor@ieee.org

Education


University of California at Santa Cruz
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, June 1998

Significant Courses Taken


Electrical Engineering

-Three general classes in Electrical Systems: one in Basic Systems and Devices; one in Analog Systems with emphasis on Computer Hardware; and one in Linear and Nonlinear Circuits concentrating on use of SPICE for Design and Analysis.

-One self-motivated research project on Synchronizing Chaotic Circuits for use in Secure Communications.

-One class on Digital Signal Processing.

High Level Programming

-Two courses conducted in C++, four in C, one in Pascal. Emphasis was on introductory programming, operating systems, data structures, recursion, and abstract data types.

Architecture and Assembly Language

-One course in Logic Design using TTL gates and an FPGA programmed with Xilinx Xact software. One course in 8086 assembly language, one Computer Architecture class with emphasis on MIPS machines, one design course on building and programming an HC11 based system.

Other Related Class

-One class in technical writing.

Related Work Experience


ZSP Corporation
Santa Clara, California
Jun 1998 - Jan 1999

Engineering Intern. Design verification for the ZSP 16402, a superscalar DSP.

+ Responsibility: Writing Verilog and Assembly Language Test Vectors.

UCSC
Santa Cruz, California
Jun 1997 - Aug 1997

ASIC testing and design of command decoder for Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics GLAST (Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope) project.

+ Responsibility: PSPICE, VHDL, Workview and Viewdraw.

UCSC
Santa Cruz, California
Jan 1996 - Dec 1997

Reader/Grader for a class in Discrete Mathematics at UCSC (Two Quarters).

Organizations


IEEE Member, since 1998