Farhad Razavi Email & Phone Number

Irvine, Ca, Us

Irvine, California, Us

Irvine, California, Us

Carlsbad, California, Us

• Performed all aspect of system engineering on variety of different products such as, highly integrated and low power consumption multi-port radio frequency (RF) transceivers for 5G wireless infrastructure radios. Full-Duplex DOCSIS3.1 remote-PHY SOC for Digital Node application, and Optical Modulator Drivers supporting PAM4 32Gbd operations.• Collaborated and led activities in a cross functional environment consisting of RFIC, ASIC, Comsys, OPS and SW teams. • Designed fixtures supporting the various system level testing and de-embedding from DC to 26GHz.• Experience in all aspect of signal and power integrity and package design for highly integrated products.• Customer/Marketing requirement analysis and system specifications for Optical Modulator Drivers at 32Gbd. • Developing customized python codes for test verification. Analog performance calibration or compensation: RSSI, AGC, DC/IQ calibration, digital pre-distortion for PA (DPD) etc.• Led IC end-to-end bench DVT characterizations over nominal V/T, and P/V/T.

Irvine, California, Us

• Designed and analyzed wireless charging circuits, RF spiral inductors, antennas and circuit boards using full wave simulation tools such as CST and HFSS.• Experience in the automated functional tests for assembled flexible circuits at different cycles and stages from NPI, EVT, DVT to MP. • Helped many OEM customers to alleviate signal integrity issues with their FPCB. • Supported the development of fine line electronic circuits on flexible substrates using UV radiation. • Improved a stretchable circuit board technology.• Implemented an FMEA for the company’s manufacturing site in China for reference impedance FPCB failure and developed a database system to mitigate the issues.• Programmed several measurement instruments using LabView for automation purposes. • Measured the electrical characteristics (dk, df) of different materials.

• Simulated and measured the effects of ESD on RF Switches, Amplifiers and Receivers.• Knowledge of IEC, HBM, and CDM standards in electronic circuit industry.• Characterized the dielectric and magnetic properties of the XStatic® material, and measured the nonlinearity of the material and effect on 3rd order intermodulation intercept point (IP3).• Programmed several measurement instruments using HPVee for automation purposes.• Utilized full wave simulators such as CST and PCB design software such as Mentor and Cadence to analyze the signal integrity (SI) and verify Requirement Specification, Design Description, Test Plans and Test Procedures. Performed root cause analysis and identified potential adverse events affecting the manufacturability of the devices. • Optimized micro-controller circuits in devices such as a Glucose meter by incorporating the company’s cutting edge nano-composite polymer within the board, which protected against electrostatic discharge (ESD). • Identified, mitigated and managed technical risk as part of the design oversight process by verifying leakage, trigger/clamp, hast, mechanical pressure/stress tests conform to quality standards.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

· Collaboration with TagArray Inc. in designing a dual band RFID tag. · Research on Millimeter Wave Antenna design This is an ungoing project to evaluate the possibility of circomventing the loss problem · Research on Planar Phaseless Measurement Techniques This research leads to the ellimination of the need for costly network analyzers at high frequencies which has won the best student paper prizes in AMTA 2006 and AMTA 2007and also AMTA 2008. · Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) Actuated Wave Front Controller: A team member in developing a subreflector consisting of MEMS switches integrated with patch reflect array elements that will compensate, in real time, for on-orbit distortions of a membrane inflatable antenna. · Design, simulation, implementation and measurements of a Corrogated Twin Horn A team member in designing a feed with stringent specifications for space-born reflectors in a collaberation with JPL/NASA. · Design of Wideband Helical Antenna · Design and simulation of a 5×5 Patch Array for a Spacecaraft in JPL/NASA. · Gain Measurements of a 2×4 Array designed for an aircraft at L-Band for JPL/NASA. · Measurements, simulations and characterization of a Reflector antenna for DirecTV · Working on Spherical & Bi-polar-Planar Near-Filed Measurement

· Design, Simulation and Implementation of Patch Array Antenna receiving and transmitting system on a cylindrical surface with an isolation of 60dB, including the design of feed networks and the shape of elements (fractals patches, dipoles etc.) · A project on designing an all-optical switch with DFB waveguides. · A project in designing an array of microstrip patches on a cylindrical surface. · A project in implementing Beam Propagation Method. · A research project on the analysis and implementation of Microstrip Bends using wavelets for EMC Applications. · Design and Simulation of an adaptive feed-forward linearizer for a 90W GSM 1800 amplifier. · Working on term projects about wavelets, analysis of Rib waveguide, survey of MEI (Measured Equation of Invariance) method (for numerical method course).

Tehran, Ir

· Entitlement of the B.Sc. project "Adaptive Solving of Two-Dimensional Laplace Equation with Finite Element" as one of the 3 best projects in the Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology · Designing a Process Controller for a factory Using 8086 Microprocessor · Designing an Instructional Software for Communication Courses Using MATLAB · Designing an Operational Amplifier in Bipolar Technology; · A team member in design of a GSM high power amplifier used in transmitting systems of Mobile communication.