Rene – Circuit Design/Layout Engineer
- CMOS Digital 16x16 crossbar switch - Tools: Cadence Virtuoso.
- Designed a digital switch using 16:1 multiplexer and 64-bit shift register on IBM 180 nm CMOS technology.
- Performed DRC, LVS and parasitic extraction along with post-layout simulation for the PCB layout of the circuit.
- Achieved an overall speed of 22.93 GHz for the entire circuit.
- Datapath synchronous controller design - Tools: Altera Quartus II.
- Designed an ASIC using a datapath and controller to perform the Newton-Raphson equation to calculate inverse of a number.
- Modeled the controller using only Verilog and used schematic capture and Verilog for the datapath.
- Worked on block level synthesis, circuit debugging and static timing analysis on the entire design.
- CMOS DC-DC boost converter - Tools: Cadence Virtuoso.
- Designed and simulated a DC-DC converter using boost topology which increases a low input dc voltage to a high dc voltage.
- Utilized the analog design environment on Cadence to run transient and dc simulations on multiple nodes of the circuit.
- Obtained a dc output of 1.5 V for a dc input of 0.8 V using TSMC 130 nm CMOS technology.
- Master of Science in Electrical Engineering.
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Layout Designer
Kent Smith
Kent Smith is a Senior Business Development Manager at Talent 101. He is responsible for managing the semiconductor engineering solutions at Talent 101’s clients. His expertise includes recruiting and workforce solutions, and working with engineering groups at Talent 101’s clients to improve business performance.
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