Vardan Kirakosyan — CTO

14+ years experience in RF(WiFi), Analog and mixed-signal design in the field of high speed PLLs, SerDes(UCIe,Thunderbolt,USB,PCI,SATA,XAUI) PHY IPs. Summary: Design of analog/mixed-signal circuits, including circuit design/test, layout floor planing, test bench creation, evaluation and debugging. Have an experience of designing different analog and mix signal circuits, such as. • LC tuned buffer 12-15GHz. • LC VCO 12-15GHz(with Momentum) • PFD and CP for 24GHz PLL •Colpitts crystal oscillator. • Adaptive-bandwith PLL. • Oscilators. • Up to 13 GHz clock generator for SerDes Transmitter. • Bandgap voltage references. • Low Dropout Voltage Regulators (LDO). •High-Speed Comparators. •High-Speed transmitters. •Symmetrical, folded cascade etc. OTAs. • High-Speed serializer ADDITIONAL INFORMATION EXPERTISE •Advanced knowledge of MOS transistors and analog circuit design , high speed circuitry design, advanced knowledge of CMOS fabrication processes, basic ESD circuits. •Hands-on experience on IC analog design flow including transistor level design, circuit simulation, test bench creation, static (DC) & timing analysis, frequency, and statistical analysis, noise analysis, capacitance measurement methodology, layout floor-planning & extraction, top level integration, reliability verification, and post-Si debug. •Competent in cutting edge FinFET CMOS process TSMC [16,10,7,2] nm) and 22nm FDSOI. • EM & IR drop analysis on post-layout design. (with Totem) • Self heating analysis. • ESD circuit and layout analysis. EDA Tools • Scripting language->primary knowledge of Perl,Tcl. • Schematic/Layout Editors Virtuoso, Synopsys Custom Designer (SE/LE/SAE(simulation and analysis gui •environment)), Cosmos(SE).• Simulators Spectre, Hspice, FineSim, XA, Hsim.• Verification Mentor Graphics Calibre, Hercules, ICV.• Scopes Saber, CosmosScope, WaveView.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled Analog/RF Design Engineer with extensive experience in semiconductor design and mixed-signal circuits.

Experience: 14 yrs 9 mos