Experience:

• IC Design
• RF blocks (LNA, PA, Mixer, Switches)
• Mixed-Signal (DAC, ADC, OpAmps, Bandgaps, integer/Frac-N PLL)
• Digital Circuitry (Filter, Receiver Algorithms, State-Machines, Serial Interfaces, Encoders, Decoders using Verilog HDL)
• IC Layout and Verification
• Top-down design verification approach for large mixed signal ICs using functional models
• Reference Board Design, Software and Drivers
• Design verification and testing for RFID reader chip
• Serial port, RFID Gen2 Decoder and FIFO, successful real-time FPGA verification, taped out ASIC version
• 802.11 RF Blocks, Integer PLLs, Frac-N PLLs, DACs, LNAs, Mixers, PA Drivers, VCOs, Digital Filters
• RF Medical Devices

IC Design Software:

• Agilent ADS (Linear/Nonlinear/Ptolemny)
• Cadence DFII : Analog/RF Design Environment
• Agilent RFDE and Dynamic Link

Math programs and system simulator programs:

• Matlab/Simulink
• Xilinx System Generator
• Synplify DSP

Digital design and verification programs:

• Xilinx ISE
• ModelSim

Layout Programs:

• Cadence Virtuoso Layout Editor (IC Layout)
• Cadsoft Eagle Layout Editor (Board Layout)

Programming Languages:

• Verilog
• Matlab
• C/C++

Patents and Publications:

• US 6285239, July 2000, Feed-Forward Biasing for RF Amplifiers II
• Microwave Journal, February 2000, A PA Driver for Split-Band Application
• RF Design magazine, June 1999, Improve efficiency of RF Power Amplifiers
• US 6130579, March 1999, Feed-Forward Biasing for RF Amplifiers I
• US 5723001, March 1998, Apparatus and method for therapeutically treating human body tissue with electromagnetic radiation
• RF Design magazine, February 1997, Custom Control Software Tool for Smith charts
• A Titanium-dioxide Based Ceramic Composite Dispersed with Conducting Inclusions as an EMI Shielding Material, Proc. 1993 IEEE International Symposium EMC, August 9-13, 1993, Dallas, TX