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Pallavi
Deshmukh
Ph: 408-306-3666, Email:
pallavi.rf@gmail.com
400 Riverside Ct, Apt #310, Santa Clara,CA 95054
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OBJECTIVE
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Seeking a challenging full time position in RFIC
Analog Design in a fast paced environment.
SUMMARY
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MSEE with specialization in RFIC and Analog IC Design
4+ years experience in the field of RFIC, MMIC and
Microwave design
Experience in design of Power
Amplifiers, LNA’s , Mixers for WLAN and WiMAX applications
on CMOS
Design and testing experience for CATV
products used in RFOG setup
Worked on multilayer
PCB RF boards, testing and troubleshooting of RF/
Microwave modules and MMIC’s
Proficient with
Cadence and other EDA tools and adept at MATLAB
programming
Excellent communication and presentation
skills
WORK EXPERIENCE
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Alloptic Inc./CTDI Livermore,CA [RF Engineer] Mar’09
- Present
• Managed CATV Transceiver design,
development and test for RFOG market
• Characterization,
test, debug of Return receivers, transmitters and
transceivers
• BER and packet loss test bench
setup
• Characterizing new components like BIDI’s,
Amplifiers, Diplexers, Switches used in RFOG products
• Product documentation and organization
Excelics Seminconductor,Sunnyvale ,CA [RFIC Design
Engineer] Aug’08 – Feb’09
• RF Pin attenuator
design and layout for frequency bands in 1-32 GHz
• Lange coupler EM simulation, layout and tile planning
for frequencies upto 32 GHz
• Broadband Power
Detector Module design and test, delivered to the
customer
• Participate and give design reviews
SM Wireless Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur, India
[Sr. RFIC Design Engineer] Jun’05 – Dec’06
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Project lead for inhouse and customer projects
• Power Amplifier design, layout for 802.11a/b/g
and 3.5 GHz band on CMOS and GaAs
• Broadband
and Narrowband LNA for 802.11a/b/g,MMDS and WiMAX
Bands
• Cable TV Amplifier Chip design and test
• Gilbert Cell Mixer design and layout
• PDK
verification of 0.18 um CMOS
• Test, Troubleshoot
MMIC die, packaged chips using PNA, Spectrum Analyzer
• Tile Planning and Tape Out
• Train junior
designers on the RF Design Tools and basics of RFIC/MMIC
Design
RF Arrays Systems Pvt. Ltd., Nagpur,
India [Jr. RFIC Design Engineer] Aug’04 – May’05
• WLAN Front End Module design, 2.4 GHz-2.5
GHz, on Genesys Eagleware
which was fabricated
and tested
• Design and layout HPF on ADS using
Momentum for EM simulation
• Simulation of MMIC
PA for 802.11a WLAN band on GaAs pHEMT in ADS and
AWR
EDA TOOLS USED
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• CADENCE Spectre, SpectreRF, Virtuoso
• Agilent’s
ADS, AWR’s Microwave Office,
• AUTOCAD, Solidworks,Genesys
Eagleware , MATLAB, Mentor Graphics
SKILLS
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• Analog IC Design of OTA, voltage references, active
filter
• MMIC, RF Module Design, Testing and
Troubleshooting
• Proficient at using PNA, Scalar
Network Analyzers, Spectrum Analyzers
• PCB
Board Design and Test Fixture Design for RF chip
testing
EDUCATION
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Masters in Electrical Engineering, GPA 3.789
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Dec’08
COURSEWORK
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CMOS RFIC Design , Analog IC Design, Mixed Signal
IC Design, Linear Systems, Semiconductor Device
Physics, VLSI Technologies, Probabilty of Random
Variables and Stochastic Processes.
PROJECTS
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NOISE PARAMETER EXTRACTION OF NANOWIRE TRANSISTORS
Dec’08
Masters Thesis which involved noise parameter
modeling of nanowire transistors.
It included
devicing new equations for the noise parameters
and verifying them with simulated data.
DIGITAL
PLL DESIGN May’08
This was a final project for
Mixed Signal IC design course. It involved design
of VCO,
Phase Frequency Detector,Charge pump,
Loop Filter and Divide by2 in IBM .13um CMOS
process. VCO operating frequency of 1GHz. Design
was completed using Cadence Spectre EDA.
OTA DESIGN Dec’07
Design of an OTA (Folded Cascode
Topology) on 0.25um TSMC foundry using Cadence.
GBW product was 250MHz for unity gain at 5pF loading
with a phase margin of 62o .
Simulated gain
was 86 dB.
PHASE LOCKED LOOP ANALYSIS May’07
To derive and analyze the transfer funtion of the
PLL for various configurations of
the Loop filter
and plot the frequency response,Step response of
the system using MATLAB.
CMOS RFIC DESIGN
– TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW May’07
This report was
a comprehensive study of evolution of 900MHz RFIC
systems, the impact
of scaling on MOS transistors,
limitations in scaling,various MMIC fabrication
technologies,
their comparison with CMOS and
the layout issues in 100 GHz,0.5V RFIC design.
EVOLUTION OF TRI-GATE FET May’07
The report
stated the evolution of Tri-gate FET,recent breakthroughs
in 3-D architechture
of FET’s ,its advantages
and implementation in future IC’s.
OTHER
ACHIEVEMENTS
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Instructor for MATLAB workshop, San Jose State University.
Oct’07, Apr’08, Oct’08
The workshop covered Introduction
to MATLAB programming and Simulink overview for
an audience of around 40.
Guest Speaker
at RF Design Seminar conducted at VNIT , Nagpur.
Jan’08
Presentation on “ RF Amplifier Design
and Layout Considerations”
Introduction to RF
Power Amplifer and LNA Design and layout intricacies
at high frequency
Awarded Louie Barozzi scholarship
on 17th April’ 2008 for academic excellence in
Graduate Program as an International Student
and contribution to community service.