Safaa Odda

San Diego, CA

ac4kr9@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 858-***-****

Summary of Qualifications

* Experienced Hardware Digital Design Engineering with 8+ years of experience in the board level design for the CPU, FPGA and SoC Emulation platform

* Experienced Debug Validation Engineering in SoC debug infrastructure, Emulation, and RMA to improve the overall efficiency and quality of the SoC silicon

* Expert in the entire PCB design flow from schematic to layout

* Experience in circuit simulation and signal integrity analysis

* Extensive experience in Emulation and Silicon environments

* Experienced in product design from concept through production and manufacturing support

SKILLS

High-speed board Design,PCIe/ USB 2.0/3.0/ SATA, FPGA and CPLD Design, FPGAs (MGT)/Memories (DDR3/4), VHDL/Verilog, SPMI/RFFE/ Ethernet/ I2C/SPI/UART, ISE/ Vivado/ ChipScope, PLL/VCXO/MUX, HyperLynx / LTSpice, JTAG/Trace32 ARM, Signal Integrity (SI), Systems Architecture, Pre-Silicon Emulation,Post-Silicon Debug/Validation/RMA

Professional Experience

Sr. Staff Design Engineer 10/2017- Present

Encore Semi Inc.

* Providing a technical lead design for the FPGA-prototyping Emulation platform

* Perform High-speed Board design expertise including interfaces such as PCIe Gen.1/2/3 and USB3.0/3.1

* Design/Technical Support for Verification/Validation team to achieve the critical technical customer requirements

Hardware / Debug Validation Engineer 2012 – 9/2017

Qualcomm through Encore Semi

* Board level design for the CPU, FPGA and SoC Emulation platform using Design Architect Mentor Graphics schematic and layout tools

* Writing VHDL/Verilog and modifying an existing module for FPGAs and CPLD to verify board level design (bring-up) and signal integrity (SI)

* Provided the hardware platform documentation using Agile, BOM and ECO for Mfg, Mech, CAD team and customers, technical support and find the best resolutions to complete the project

* Debugged and verified component and digital (or analog) circuit design, performed the enhancement or the correction for a new or an existing design

* Professional digital design of high-speed circuit for FPGAs (MGT) and memories (DDR3/4)

* Performed and designed SerDes interfaces such as SATA, PCIe, Ethernet, I2C, and USB 3.0/2.0

* Performed a circuit simulation, designed and calculated the power consumption and Signal Integrity (SI) analysis in PCB systems design by using HyperLynx and LTSpice or other tools

* Prototype and hands-on experience using lab tools such as; Digital oscilloscope, Logic analyzer, JTAG/Trace32 ARM debugging, ISE, Vivado, ChipScope and others

* Validated and debugged the SoC silicon including RMA using C code, practice script, JTAG Trace32 Debugger, and Automated tools

* Debugging low-level software and hardware issues to find out the root cause based on strong SoC, CPU and DDR architectures knowledge

* Created automation framework test that utilizes regular expression to enable variety of test configurations and test setups using practice script, and C/C++ compiled executable based tests

* Analyzing failure symptoms of each subsystem and how they correlate with overall system behavior

* Performed and derived RMA SoC issue resolution based on reported fail signature to improve product quality and performance

Hardware Design Engineer 2008 – 2012

Evertz Microsystems Ltd.

* Designed and debugged a high-speed circuit and VHDL FPGA platform using Xilinx- ISE, Altera- Quartus II and MATLAB

* Performed analog circuit and switch-mode power supply development to design high-speed PCB

* Developed a Boundary Scan and In-Circuit tests based on IEEE 1149.1 Standard for Audio and Video broadcasting, IPTV and RF products and saving time of production up to 30%

* Developed the InterConnect, Cluster, Memory and FLASH programming test for the Digital electronic PCBs and SMT components using PADS Logic and PADS Layout

* Validated a Firmware for new products or new options using SMPTE (292,259,424and 299) standards for Video (SD, HD, 3G and ASI) and Audio (AES, Dolby, and Embedded)

* Verified the performance of DTV/compression (MPEG2, H264 and JPEG2000) and IPTV products using LAN, VLAN, Unicast, Multicast, IGMPV2/V3 and UDP/IP

* Developed an automation programming in Python and LabVIEW to create a new DTV stream player for MPEG2 and H264 multi streams auto-running and reduce testing time by 50%

* Created and updated a test procedure and conformance forms, ECOs, debugging and troubleshooting defective products and prototypes using oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, and network analyzers

Electronics Design Engineer 2005 – 2008

Low & High Power Group Inc.

* Tested, Calibrated, debugged and troubleshoot BICC which includes Micro-Controller and Embedded programming using USB and serial RS-232 debugging tools and schematic drawing

* Provided a technical and production support for Digital Control Panels, Battery Interface Charging Controller (BICC), Battery Data and Controller (BDC) and PJ Controller

* Created documentation including technical requirements, functional specifications, design specifications, qualification test plans, and reports.

Education

* Master’s Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering

* Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering

* IC Design Engineering Certificate - UCSD

* Programming in C – Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning

* FPGA Embedded Design – UCSD

* FPGA Design Fundamentals – UCSD

* Advanced System Verilog Design – UCSD

* Fundamentals of CMOS Analog IC – UCSD

* Mixed Signal Design - UCSD

Volunteer Experience

* First Lego League Championship / Robot Design Judging 2013 - Present

Memberships and Affiliations

* Member – Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); published papers

* Application to Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO)

* Member – IEU as a qualified Electrical/Electronic Engineer (Licensed Engineer)

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