Experience

Altera

• United States
• Semiconductors
• 700 & Above Employee

• Member of Technical Staff Product Verification Engineer

  • Mar 2010 - Present

  - Technical lead for the IC characterization, validation and verification of new leading edge FPGA devices’ “High Speed External Memory Interfaces” including following responsibilities: o Develop new device verification & characterization strategies, plans and schedules by integrating different requirements from various engineering and business departments o PCB board requirements integration & design participation o Proficient in Verilog design creation & ModelSim simulation verification o Supervised and performed both modular & system level measurements for External Memory Interfaces (DDR3/4, LPDDR2, PLL, GPIO & etc.) using state-of-the-art characterization equipment (high bandwidth oscilloscopes, high frequency pulse/signal generators, programmable power supplies, logic analyzer/protocol analyzer, digital multimeters..) o Automated measurement using high performance ATE tester (Advantest Verigy V93k tester) o Analyzed measurement results to ensure meeting spec requirements (e.g JEDEC or Altera design target) else worked with design team for issue resolution o Support customer issues with regard to Critical Memory Interfaces failures, driving team effort for failure analysis, root cause investigation and finalizing the verification and implementation of workable solution. Show less



Radisys Corporation

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Advance Hardware Engineer

  • Jan 2008 - Feb 2010

  - In charge of board spin overall hardware validation and specific functional tests. - Utilized high bandwidth oscilloscope/probes in a test fixture with built in test software for high speed bus signal integrity measurements (FSB, 100M/1G Ethernet, PCI-E, USB, DDR2 connection) - Utilized low bandwidth oscilloscope & probes for power/voltage, current, clock & low speed signal integrity measurements (I2C & RS232 serial bus) - Ran 4 corner thermal/voltage stress tests using programmable thermal chamber. Show less



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Revenue Product Engineer

  • Mar 2006 - Dec 2007

  - Product ownership for ATCA server board with Intel Architecture from NPI phase till product end of life - Worked with cross-functional teams from different sites to ensure smooth production while maintaining product quality & reliability - Qualified new components on board to replace end of life components or components with design quality/reliability issues - Provided customer support for debugging reported field failures using structured problem solving process, schematic & layout reviews plus lab measurements to determine the root cause of failure - Coordinated/participated in daily work meetings to drive resolution for a host of product issues varying from board design to component quality and manufacturing process. - Executed ECO (engineering change order) process whenever there was a need for engineering change in the BOM (bill of material) Show less



G-Tek Electronics

• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• R & D Hardware Engineer

  • May 2005 - Feb 2006

  - Member of Telecommunication products development team o Bluetooth Gateway, WIFI/VOIP hand phone - Schematic design using Protel and Orcad software - Sourced for new components - Prepared product introduction documents including BOM, schematic, product test procedure, block diagram and etc. - Electronics troubleshoot and debug, hands-on PCB rework. - Evaluated the performance and identified the problems of developing product from user point of view. - Member of Telecommunication products development team o Bluetooth Gateway, WIFI/VOIP hand phone - Schematic design using Protel and Orcad software - Sourced for new components - Prepared product introduction documents including BOM, schematic, product test procedure, block diagram and etc. - Electronics troubleshoot and debug, hands-on PCB rework. - Evaluated the performance and identified the problems of developing product from user point of view.