Experience

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  Marvell Semiconductor

  • Senior Design Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer

    • Oct 1998 - Oct 2014

    -Designed high-speed/low-power circuits for technologies ranging from 0.18 micron to 16nm for multiple applications, including: Magnetic and optical storage, Gigabit Ethernet (802.3), SerDes, serial ATA, FM Radio, and GPS.-Designed high-speed data-path circuits such as digital filters, Viterbi algorithm, timing/gain recovery, fractional dividers for phase-locked loops (PLL), CORDICs, AMBA (AHB/APB)-Managed tape-outs of stand-alone hard disk drive (HDD) read channel products, as well as GDS deliveries of numerous IP cores for multiple high-volume production SOCs.-Managed a design team of six engineers.-Design responsibilities included: Specification development, architecture definition, circuit conceptualization and implementation, synthesis, functional verification, timing closure (STA), clock analysis (CDC), power analysis, design-for-test (DFT), floorplanning, supervision of physical design and place-and-route, ECOs, and signoff procedures.-Support roles included: Post-silicon validation (chip bring-up, lab evaluation, production testing) and customer documentation.-Customer interactions included: Product feature development, support for design development (including Cadence Palladium model), support for silicon evaluation and debug, leading external design reviews, documentation.

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  Analog Devices

  • Design Engineer

    • Mar 1992 - Mar 1998

    ADSP-21xx fixed-point DSP microprocessorsResponsibilities included:-Custom schematic-entry design-Functional verification-Simulation environment for IKOS hardware emulator-Pathmill & SPICE timing analysis-Floorplanning-Supervision of physical layout-LVS/DRC verification and DRACULA flow development-Tapeout formalities-Silicon debug-Customer application issuesSelect list of design projects:-Instruction Fetch and Decode-Data Address Generation-ALU/Multiplier/Barrel Shifter-Delay-locked loop (DLL)-On-chip SRAM-Schmitt trigger-Serial port interface-DMA port-JTAG interface

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  Bill Wilson Center

  • Volunteer Telephone Counselor

    • 1907 - 1915

    Correction: 2007-2015 (8 years)Telephone Counselor for Contact Cares Community Helpline