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Resume of IHS
Consultant
EXPERTISE AND SERVICES
Analog, RF Integrated Circuit, Photonics Expert ConsultantExpertise in design and analysis of VCOs for optical communication PLLs, phase locked loop (PLL) and delay locked loop (DLL), analog integrated circuit (IC), mixed signal high speed design, digital signal processing, voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), data conversion (ADC, DAC), data transmission and recovery, radio frequency (RFIC, MMIC).
Knowledgeable in areas including Bipolar (SiGe), BICMOS, SOI, CMOS and GaAs high speed processes, clock and data recovery circuits, synthesizers beyond 20 GHz, high resolution sigma-delta converters.
Additional specialties include development of 40 Gb/s, 10 Gb/s and 2.5Gb/s SONET data communications ICs, design of high-speed data converters, RFICs and MMICs, Silicon on Sapphire technologies and Photonics applications.
Additional experience includes participation in several start-ups from the beginning, including recruitment and setting up the design tools.
This consultant has served as an expert witness at the ITC
PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED
Communications, Computer, Electronics, Legal
EDUCATION
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Physics (with Honors), U.S. Naval Academy
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Consultant, Kevin Kennedy & Associates, Inc.
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Providing expertise in electrical engineering, physics, analog/ RF integrated circuit design, PLL, DLL, and VCO circuits, photonics, expert witness testimony, inventing, and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.
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Consultant, integrated circuit design consulting firm
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Clients included Cravath, DLA Piper, Onyx, Howrey LLP, Avnera, Telaris, Peregrine Semi, Kotura, Motia, Centellax and Jazz Semi.
Principal RFIC Design Engineer, Pulse-Link, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
Founder & Director, Mixed Signal Products, Centellax, Inc., Carlsbad, CA
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Responsibilities included providing critical design know-how for the development of new circuits, as well as setting up the design center in Carlsbad, staffing it, and managing design and the testing that was done at headquarters in Santa Rosa. Set out to develop a line of OC-768 (40Gbps) multiplexors and demultiplexors with clock recovery, including Bit Error Rate test ICs, using 120GHz Silicon Germanium (SiGe) BICMOS 0.25u process. Led the development of a Direct Digital Synthesizer, a Fractional-N Delta-Sigma PLL, and a 10 GHz 10-bit DAC. Other chips worked on include 40G dividers, TIA, Laser driver, TWA, Limiting Amplifier, LNA, Mixer, IQ modulator, VCOs up to 45GHz, and 15 GHz accumulators.
Senior Design Engineer/ Senior Staff Engineer, Newport Communications (now Broadcom Corp.), Irvine, CA
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Was instrumental in the development of Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) functions in 0.25um through 0.13um CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) for fiber communications at 2.5Gb/s and 10Gb/s. Gained increased expertise in VCO design and in architectures for PLL and data recovery.
Principal Engineer, Silicon Wave, Inc., San Diego, CA
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Was one of the very first engineers hired by Silicon Wave because of critical expertise in high speed Bicmos analog circuits, including PLL design. Worked on the design, layout and test of many integrated circuits for RF, IF I/Q Mod-Demod, AGC, VCO, PLL, CRU (clock recovery unit) and high speed logic in BICMOS (bipolar and complementary metal oxide semiconductor) on SOI (silicon on insulator).
Senior Design Engineer, Applied Micro Circuits Corporation, San Diego, CA
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Developed Bicmos analog PLL building blocks for application specific and standard products. Led the design of first 2.5 GHz PLL /Clock Recovery and of mux/demux functions up to 5 GHz, using AMCC's G3.0 bipolar process. Designed and tested two Delay Locked Loop (DLL) ICs that had resolution better than 100 pS and developed MSI circuit for timing delay adjustment, having a resolution of 40 pS.
Senior Design Engineer, Bipolar Group, Brooktree Corporation (now Conexant), San Diego, CA
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Worked in DAC converters and timing circuits. Redesigned three ICs to a different process, improving performance, and designed Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) products in AT&T's CBICU complementary bipolar process. Worked on a 275 MHz monolithic PLL and the redesign of a high speed bipolar RAMDAC (Random Access Memory plus DAC).
Analog Design Engineer, TRW, LSI Products Division, La Jolla, CA
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Was the principal designer of a combination analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) converters for a sub-ranging hybrid product, familiar with sample-hold, current mode amplification and characterization of both ADC and DAC. Interfaced with TRW’s Space Park in modeling of an advanced bipolar process. Worked on a 75 MHz reduced power 8-bit ADC converter IC.
Member of Technical Staff, Gould Inc., Dexcel Division, Santa Clara, CA
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Designed and tested Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) 6-to-18 GHz amplifiers fabricated in Gallium Arsenide, and hybrid assemblies.
ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE
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Consulting History:
Cravath, Swaine and Moore, New York, NY, Technical consultant on multiple patents
DLA Piper, LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Technical consultant on unnamed case
Howrey, LLP, Palo Alto, CA, Technical consultant and expert witness on two patents
Telaris, Santa Monica, CA, Optical Phase Locked Loop Design
Kotura, Los Angeles, CA, Locate Fab and design Silicon optical modulator
Peregrine, San Diego, CA, Phase noise reduction of Fractional-N Sigma Delta Synthesizer
Centellax, Santa Rosa, CA, Wide Band VCOs for Synthesizer and Microwave source
Motia, Pasadena, CA, PLL design for WIFI
Jazz Semiconductor, Newport Beach, CA, PLL design for dual synthesizer
Litigation Support Experience:
Qualcomm (Howrey Simon LLP), Broadcom patent at the International Trade Commission, Completed deposition, reports, rebuttals and testimony in court. Qualcomm won case.
Avnera, Against Maxim, Wrote report on intellectual property found in an Excel document file.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Senior Member, IEEE
Former member of Technical Program Committee, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)
High Speed Bipolar Design for Mixed Signal Circuits, CICC Educational Sessions
PUBLICATIONS
Numerous publications on topics related to radio frequency integrated circuits, variable frequency oscillators, photonics, and more.
Holder of 6 patents related to integrated circuits.
Please note that this is an abbreviated CV. A fully detailed unabridged CV is available under special circumstances.
Read articles by this associate:
SiGe 43.2 Gb/s 4:1 Multiplexor and Clock Multiplier for OC-768 Fiber Communications
A SiGe 10-Gb/s Multi-Pattern Bit Error Rate Tester
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