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Cupertino, California, US

Silicon Engineering Group

Santa Clara, CA, US

• IoT Multimedia SoC Group
• SoC Bring-up, Debug, Validation and Characterization – Supported all complex multimedia SoC bring-up and debug in short turnaround time environment– Worked together with ASIC team to resolve silicon issues.– In depth.
• Silicon Package Planning and Design– Worked on silicon package and system co-development to optimize between SI/PI performance and cost.– Worked with ASIC team on die floor planning to optimize package and system board.
• Signal Integrity and Power Integrity– Supported all Signal Integrity and Power Integrity analysis, model extraction, simulation and characterization for packages and boards using 2D and 3D EM simulation tools and.
• Systems Hardware Development– Developed Silicon Validation board and FPGA /CPLD video interface and capture boards.– schematic capture, layout Supervision and SI simulation.– FPGA/CPLD design with Verilog. – Board.
• Technical Management– Managed a small engineering team as a technical lead.– 100% hands-on work on all tasks.

US

• Designed Pre-Silicon Verification FPGA Board, Bring-Up Boards, Product Development Boards and FPGA Data Capture and Emulation Board for digital still/video camera and imaging ASIC developments.
• All board designs included board specification, OrCAD schematic capture, signal integrity simulation, PCB layout guideline and supervision.
• Performed signal integrity simulation to develop and verify recommended DDR-II signal topology and PCB layout.
• Developed Verilog codes and test benches for FPGAs and CPLDs.
• Reviewed silicon substrate layout and BGA pin assignment.
• Worked with ASIC team on pre-silicon verifications on FPGA platforms.

San Jose, CA, US

• Designed Bring-up and Evaluation Boards for cable modem and satellite set-top box ICs.
• Defined detail board specifications with inputs from cross-functional team.
• Designed systems based on specification and created OrCAD schematics.
• Generated PCB layout guideline to PCB designers and provided PCB layout supervision
• Developed Verilog code for FPGA on bring-up boards.
• Conducted silicon and system bring-up, signals integrity check, functional debug effectively by developing detail bring-up and test plan.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Designed the digital-logic section of the Motorola V60c CDMA cellular phone.
• Joined the initial bring-up of the first Motorola single chip CDMA baseband processor IC.
• Defined software and hardware interface specification to identified task between hardware and software teams.
• Implemented the new standard Motorola CE Bus Interface.
• Designed functional test procedures for factory to improve manufactory quality of the product.

• Responsible for the design of the ATSC digital bitstream-decoding module of the HDTV receiver prototype utilizing customized ASIC solution and ALTERA programmable logic device.
• Developed the analog NTSC to digital TV system interface module..
• Worked with PCB engineers in all critical signal paths.
• Responsible for the design of digital comb filter section of NTSC television set.
• Performed Pspice circuit analysis to optimize analog circuit performance and Matlab analysis to identify digital artifact.

Master Of Science, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Electrical Engineering And Computer Science