David Garrett Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

A technical advisor on the Aeonic family of products for sensing, clocking and power distribution.

Irvine, California, United States

The Professional Master of Embedded and Cyber-physical Systems Industry Advisory Board.

United States

Irvine, California, United States

Irvine, Ca

Irvine, Ca

+ Helped deliver 802.11ax silicon in both WiFi smartphone combo chips and router platforms+ 90+ US Patents granted to date+ Key architecture of Transmit Beamforming Architecture for 1+ billion 802.11ac WiFi parts

Irvine, Ca

+ Recognized as a Distinguished Engineer+ Chair of the Broadcom Foundation’s Annual University Research Competition, and member of the University STEM Research Committee+ Expert at Digital Signal Processing (DSP) design in all area of VLSI design, member Broadcom’s DSP Task Force+ Expert in High-Level Synthesis flows, modeling complex systems in SystemC, and automating the construction of HW Designs+ Technical Program Co-Chair for the IEEE Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED). + Able to build high-performance, low-power VLSI systems, with expertise in the entire flow, from system and algorithm design, chip architecture, DSP and development cores, through the backend, Place and Route, and full-custom VLSI if needed+ Expert in almost all modern communications systems, including 802.11ac, LTE, Bluetooth, 802.11ad 60 GHz, WiMax, GPS, 3G/HSPA, 10G Ethernet+ Expert in MIMO, Forward Error Correction (FEC), FFT Processing, Analog Front-end Filtering, Acquisition, Spectral Analysis, Linear Algebra Accelerators, Floating point arithmetic+ Responsible for the Transmit Beamforming (TXBF) Architectures in both the AP and STA side of 802.11ac chipsets, shipping in the hundreds of millions of chips+ Member of Broadcom's Patent Review Committee, with 50+ Granted US Patents to-date+ Expert witness in Patent litigation, including infringement and defense.

Santa Clara, Ca

+ As Director of R&D Systems Engineering managed a team of 11 engineers responsible for all WiMax reference designs.+ Technical lead on Beceem’s WiMax infrastructure products, including specifications, S/W and H/W architectures. Ran multi-functional teams across both US and India sites.+ Lead the PHY architecture for 1st and 2nd generation WiMax mobile chipsets, including overall architecture from RF input to MAC payload delivery. Innovations in the FEC, Hybrid-ARQ management, MIMO receivers, as well detailed work in RTL to bring the chipset to market in record time. + Active representative to the WiMax Forum to define WiMax certification profiles. Key achievement was the push to include MIMO as a mandatory feature, favoring Beceem’s silicon solutions.

+ Performed research on multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver architectures.+ As a principal investigator, delivered first-pass working silicon for a 4x4 MIMO receiver including space-time equalization for data rates up 28.8 Mb/s over a 5 MHz frequency selective+ Helped develop innovative Turbo Code architectures, with Lucent ultimately developing a product team to build HSPA infrastructure chipsets.

Burlington, Vermont Area

+ Hired into the Engineering Leadership Development Program, a 3-year program with rotations around the business. Originally based on the GE Edison program, including becoming an instructor in the program.+ Obtained a Masters’ degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) while working full-time.

Cto Program

Phd, Electrical Engineering

Doctoral Thesis: “Low Power VLSI Design for Signal Processing Architectures”.

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering