YULIANG (MICHAEL) DU 213-***-****(CELL)

acxvcc@r.postjobfree.com Santa Clarita, CA 91355

SUMMARY

Sr. Hardware Design Engineer with over 10 years of dynamic career in analog/digital design with commercial μChip/DSP components, FPGAs, proprietary ASICs, with a focus on medical devices including cochlear implant, speech processors, pacemakers and ICDs in the fast-paced class III medical industry.

Functional responsibilities and competencies include:

• Prototype and feasibility study for prototypes based on existing proprietary ASIC and commercial ICs.

• Schematic capture through Cadence OrCAD capture, Altium design or Mentor Graphics PADS

• DSP algorithm implementation and programming to TI DSP processors

• Coding Atmel/Microchip embedded processors

• Programming skills in VC++, C18, MATLAB and Labview

• Strong background in CMOS transistor-level circuit simulation through Mentor Graphics Eldo or Cadence PSpice simulators.

• Experience in designing analog/digital electronics, MCU interface, RF transceiver, power electronics

• Lead the post silicon electrical characterization/failure analysis/ESD failures for ASIC blocks

• Knowledge of RF impedance matching techniques and electromagnetic simulation tools.

• Understanding of device physics, semiconductor modeling and processing in particular High- Frequency and device mismatch modeling.

• Statistical/Cpk /trending analysis of large SQL datasets of production data with Minitab/Matlab

• Generate product design specs, design requirement, verification and validation report

• Initiate ECO changes through engineering/failure analysis report in product lifecycle management.

• Hardware debugging skills using oscilloscope, signal generator, logic analyzer, etc. EXPERIENCE

Sr. Hardware Design Engineer, St. Jude Medical, Sylmar (August, 2014 – present)

• Co-lead the next generation implantable Cardiac monitor device, author/co-author the Electronic Design Input Requirement EDIR/HDD/Test plan documents

• Prototyping circuit design/performance characterization of GMR/Hall magnetic sensor, Accelerometer, Hall sensor, temperature sensor, etc.

• PSpice simulation of the analog filter front end for EGM capture

• Characterize the TI power supply LDO regulator performance

• Design/Verify pacing pulse circuitry for MRI RF pulse immunity at 64MHz/128MHz on the implantable device functionalities.

• Architect the 10 channels RF injection tester with NI PXI platform.

• Perform MRI superconducting static magnet verification test on the implantable devices. Sr. ATE Engineer, Advanced Bionics, Sylmar/Valencia (August, 2009 – August, 2014)

• Lead the ATE testers build and validation for the $2M manufacturing capacity expansion project

• Lead the manufacturing test for silicon transition from Fab9 to Fab10 in onsemi process

• Develop LabVIEW test softwares for implantable and external device production test automation

• Perform TLP testing (HBM model) on ESD protection circuitry to improve the implant ESD immunity

• Perform the XIVA on the implant substrate and analyze the root cause of the substrate failure

• Cpk control/improvement and process optimization on the implant production

• 10% yield improvement on the speech process device by adjusting RF tuning components on the back-telemetry receiver

• Reduce the implant fall out by reducing the RF pick up noise in the production line Firmware Engineer, Dice electronics, Los Angeles (July. 2008 – August, 2009)

• Design the Media-hub board, including the power electronics and bluetooth/USB communication

• Code the API GUI interface to the USB-FM radio project with RDS text receival, signal quality calibration.

• Debug the embedded C/C++ source code for the Sirius radio receiver module. Research Assistant, Ultralow Temperature Physics Lab, USC (Sept. 2003 – Aug. 2008)

• Interface Labview data collection module to the CAMAC controller driver WinCam32.dll.

• Design the NMR transmitter, Band-Pass Amplifier and Q-killer at 10 MHz bandwidth

• Implement real time FIR/IIR/Kalman digital filters using DSP algorithms

• Implement Marquardt algorithm for best parameter search in curve fitting Research Assistant, Advanced Interconnect Lab, USC (May 2001 – June 2003)

• Perform design, fabrication and RF characterization of the 7 GHz patch antennas using HFSS and Network Analyzers with Smith Chart impedance characterization.

• Perform TDR testing for striplines, spectrum analyzer testing for DFB laser modulation (~1GHz) and relative intensity noises (RIN), jitter noise testing of the high speed clocks.

• Program 4-step Runge-Kutta integration code to solve for the coupled nonlinear laser rate equation to simulate the semiconductor laser linewidth, RIN and modulation responses Research Assistant, Concurrent Computing Lab for Material Simulation (Jan. 2000 – June 2000)

• Program molecular dynamics simulations (Verlet algorithm) for a 104 system with broadcasting codes in a distributed computing system.

• Program quantum Monte Carlo algorithm for He2

+ ground state energy calculations.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Physics, University of Southern California (9/2003 – 5/2009) Thesis: Low field NMR study of superfluid order parameter of 3He in aerogel Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California (8/2000 – 8/2003) Bachelor of Science, Applied Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, PR China (9/1993 – 7/1997) PUBLICATION

“Accessing Transmission-mode Dispersion in Super-prisms,” Y. Du et al, Solid State Electronics, 47, 1369-1377, (2003)

“Polarization Dependent Reflectivity from Dielectric Nanowires,” Y. Du et al, Applied Physics Letter, 83, 996-998, (2003)

“Magnetism of Two-Dimensional Films of 3He on Highly Oriented Graphite” 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics - LT24. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 850, pp. 319-320 (2006)

“Evidence for Split NMR Lines in Ferromagnetic 3He Films,” 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics - LT24. AIP Conference Proceedings RELATED COURSEWORK

• EE COURSE: Computer system organization, VLSI digital circuit design, Digital Signal Processing, Advanced DSP lab, Analog circuit design, Computer Network, Communication systems, C++ programming.

• PHYSICS COURSE: Advanced Electromagnetism, Experimental Physics Lab, Computational physics, Advanced Quantum Mechanics

COURSE PROJECT

Digital Signal Processing: Implemented the equalization filter to reconstruct a distorted signal, Implemented the oversampling A/D converter algorithm for a real time signal quantization Adaptive Signal Processing: Implemented the narrowband interference suppression algorithm via Wiener filtering, Implemented an LMS adaptive equalizer Advanced DSP lab: Implemented ADPCM CODEC and 4-PAM MODEM on TI’s TMS320-C6717 using eXpressDSP embedded development tools, JTAG programming to atmega128 microchip Mixed signal design: Analog circuit design for band gap reference, LDO regulator, common mode feedback circuit, 60MHz bandwidth OTA, XOR phase detector for PLL and ring oscillators. Silicon processing lab: Fabricate and characterize passive and active MOSFET devices (FET, capacitor, resistor and inverters) using 2μm silicon technology. Process including photolithography, wet etching, oxidation, aluminum deposition and SPA characterization SKILLS

Languages & IDE: Visual Studio 2012/5, VC++ 6.0, Eclipse Juno, MPLAB, LabVIEW, Matlab, TI eXpressDSP CCS, Python, R, FORTRAN, HFSS

OS: Linux/UNIX, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Software Tools: TI eXpressDSP, Cadence OrCAD/Capture/Allegro/PSpice, Mentor Graphics PADS/Eldo, MPLAB-X IDE, LabVIEW, Matlab/Simulink, SQL, Minitab, Verilog-XL, Modelsim Verilog/VHDL simulator, MAX+PLUS-II, Quartus-II, ISE Foundation (Xilinx) Equipment: Working knowledge of digital oscilloscope, rework station, lock-in amplifiers, Network analyzer, rf-spectrum analyzer, TDR, optical spectrum analyzer, microscope, etc. CONFERENCE

“Low field NMR in aerogel confined superfluid 3He,” APS March Meeting, 2008 FELLOWSHIP

Ph.D. dissertation fellowship, 2007-2008, USC

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