System IC Architect Resume Sunnyvale, CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Extensive experience in QAM radio design in microwave and UHF radio channels.
Experience in IP network architectures, Ethernet interfaces, and point to multipoint radio design.
Signal processing algorithms: hardware/software/firmware in modulation, demodulation, and forward error correction.
Special capabilities in weak signal recovery in high noise and temporal dispersion channels for UHF, microwave radio.
FPGA and ASIC development for applications in digital radio, capacitive touch, medical devices, and laser ranging.
Perform functional and bit true simulation of custom designed algorithms and hardware architectures in MatLab.
DSP programming languages used include MatLab, C++, assembly, Verilog, and VHDL.
DSP software tools experience in TI Code Composer Studio, Analog Devices SHARC, and Motorola processors.
FPGA hardware design experience in Xilinx and Altera using Verilog and VHDL PC platform systems.
Algorithms employed using FIR, IIR, PLL and Kalman filters. Decision directed feedback and FFTs applied to signal acquisition, equalization, and demodulation of weak signals in dispersive channels.
In depth experience in FEC techniques such as Reed - Solomon, Viterbi, and customized Turbo codes.
Extensive applications experience in DSP applied to optical, wire-line modems, UHF radio, microwave radio, LASER control, data compression and medical technology.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

System IC Architect

Responsibilities:

Created the IC specification and design for a unique capacitive touch controller for use in hostile environments.
The design supports mixed modes of mutual and self capacitance detection for robust operation in the presence of water, dirt, blood, and gloves.
Managed a third party ASIC developer to simulate and create a mixed signal analog/digital design in a 40 nm CMOS process.
Special emphasis was given to low power and chip area.
Performed Matlab simulation studies to confirm switched capacitor/resistor digitally assisted analog front end. A US patent application has been filed.
Used Xilinx FPGA programmed in Verilog to verify RTL. I2C, SPI, and DSP functions all verified using Matlab Instrument Control Toolbox in real time to FPGA.
Supervised analog designers in chip layout of critical analog sections. Reviewed design simulations performed using Cadence tools.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Staff Systems Architect, Research and Development

Responsibilities:

Architected new innovative capacitive touch controller ICs using mutual and self capacitance.
Special emphasis on low cost designs in a cost sensitive mature industry.
Created several new signal processing systems to combat noise to make product robust in a noisy hostile environment. Several patents filed and received.

Confidential. San Jose, CA

Research & Development Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for IC architecture and algorithms for capacitive touch screen controllers.
Performed technical lead function for all RTL and FW designers.
Proprietary DSP algorithms developed to create and detect very weak signals in high noise environments for capacitive touch screen navigation.
Designed algorithms for very low power consumption.
Optimized designs to minimize silicon usage for cost minimization.
Created design based on highly adaptive filtering methods for robust, self calibrating operation.

Confidential, Redwood City, CA

Consultant/Communication System Architect/Developer

Responsibilities:

Proprietary DSP algorithms developed to detect multiple weak signals in high noise environments with large frequency uncertainties.
DSP implemented in C++ and MatLab using the TI 5509 DSP.
Extensive software tools created in MatLab for post processing field-captured data in early animal and clinical trials.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Senior Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and developed hardware/software for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags used for tracking commercial vehicles and shipping containers.
Designed and developed the WhereWand for RFID tags using Altera FPGAs programmed with Verilog code.
Designed and developed the hardware and software for a high volume RFID tag manufacturing station.
MatLab combined with C programming was used and implemented on the PC platform using Visual C++.

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Consultant / System Architect/Hardware-Software Developer

Responsibilities:

Supervised several contractors in RF, logic, and software design/development.
Implemented several PCBs using SMT components with Xilinx Spartan FPGAs and theTI 5502 DSP.
Decision directed signal recovery, adaptive equalization, and Reed-Solomon error correction employed.