J ing Gao
Address: ****E Melody Lane Phone Number: 602-***-****
City, State, Zip Code: Gilbert, AZ 85234 Email address:******@***.***
Personal Profile
New-Grad Master in Mixed-signal Circuit Design area actively seeking a full-time job focus on Analog and Mixed-
signal Circuit Design, strong background on CMOS, analog and digital circuit design, Nyquist ADC, sigma-delta
ADC and DAC, familiar with high-speed I/O and PLL, and two years’ experience with Cadence design and Virtuoso
verification and extraction.
Education
Master of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Graduation: May, 2013
GPA: 3.68/4.00
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Huaihai Institute of Technology, China Graduation: June, 2011
Ranking: Top 5 out of 110
Lab Experience
Design A Macro-model of A Fully Differential RSD-Based Pipelined ADC In Cadence Jun 2013
● Requirements: Design a 12-bit RSD based pipeline ADC in Cadence, sample rate is 80MHz, input bandwidth
is 39MHz or less, 1Vpp differential and supply voltage is 1.8V.
● Results: 9 1.5-bit RSD stages and 1 3-bit flash ADC stage make up a 12-bit RSD pipeline ADC, SNDR of
simulation is 71.1692dB and ENOB is 11.53.
Modeling And Simulation of A Second Order Continuous-time Sigma-Delta Modulator Dec 2012
● Requirements: Design a macro-model of a fully differential second order continuous-time sigma-delta
modulator in Cadence. Signal bandwidth is 200 KHz, sample frequency is 40MHz or less, minimum SNR is
70dB, maximum input signal level is 0.5Vpp differential and supply voltage is 1.5V.
● Results: Choose OSR=80, sample frequency is 32MHz, 2-bit quantizer, 2-order CIFB structure to achieve
the SNR requirement, SNR of simulation is 80.27dB.
Engine Controller For A 12-Cylinder 6-Speed Car (Group project) Apr 2012
● Requirements: Design a circuit to control the 12 cylinders and gears of a car. The circuit includes inputs
block, auto-pilot diagram turn-on decision block, RPM/gear control block and cylinders/gears block. I am
responsible for part of RPM/gear control block.
● Results: For the car goes down a ramp, control the cylinders and gears according to the logic given to
maintain the same speed. Mainly use adders, sub-tractors, comparators, multipliers, MUXs and dividers.
VLSI Phase-Locked Loop Circuit Design (Group project) Dec 2012
● Requirements: Design a PLL which is programmable to two frequencies for HS-G2(A/B) applications with
0.18um TSMC technology. Input reference clock at 26.00MHz, output clock at 2.496GHz/2.912GHz, 1MHz
bandwidth. PLL includes PFD, LPF, VCO and frequency divider. I am mainly responsible for frequency divider.
● Results: Use AND, OR, FF and Inverter to form programmable frequency divider which can divide 96 and
112 correctly.
Rail To Rail Amplifier Design Mar 2012
● Requirements: Design a rail to rail differential amplifier with TSMC 0.25um technology. Given supply is 3.0V,
maximize the input common mode range, DC gain more than 40dB, unity gain frequency is 80MHz or more
with CL=1pF, power less than 1mW.
● Results: Simulation result are CM input range is 0-2.8V, DC gain is 40.07dB, and unity gain frequency is
80.19MHz.
GSM900 Direct Conversion Front-End Receiver Design Apr 2012
● Requirements: With the TSMC 0.35um technology, for 900MHz, required sensitivity is -104dBm, IIP3 is -
12dBm, NF is between 7.5dB-8dB and current is less than 1mA.
● Results: Overall performance of 24dB Gain, 4.6dB NF, -10dBm IIP3, 40mW power consumption using LNA,
Gilbert cell mixer and inter-stage impedance matching network.
Core Courses
Analog Integrated Circuit, Adv Analog Integrated Circuits, Analog to Digital Converters, Oversampling Sigma-Delta
Data, Digital System Circuit, VLSI Design, Serial Links, Power Electronics, Comm Transceiver Circuit Design