Electronics Hardware engineer, schematic and PCB layout design

Shamsi Ismayilov

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Experienced in all phases of new product development and technical management from the conceptual stages to production release. Experienced in designing complex electronics hardware including digital and analog circuits, as well as FPGAs using VHDL, embedded software, signal integrity, timing budget, simulation, high-speed PCB layout design, hardware debug and testing, image processing/compressing, Bluetooth implementation, sensors fusing, EMI/EMC compliance, manufacturability.

CAREER PLAN

Become Electronics HW designer, Electronics Hardware development manager, Engineering manager, Technical director,

WORK EXPERIENCE

Alstom. July 2021– now

Electronics HW Architect

Defining the hardware architecture, to include:

Defining the functional and structural breakdown into hardware components,

Allocating the requirements to the components, defining the interfaces between the hardware components,

Defining the dynamic behavior of the hardware, and validating the feasibility of the solution though model simulation and/or prototyping.

Defining main technical decisions for hardware development, defining the hardware interfaces for the software

Performing both analog and digital circuit design/analysis and product validation

Paticiated in the devoleopment of the full-bridge inverter.

FPGA design

Develop detailed specifications based on requirements and implement FPGA designs in accordance with those defined requirements and/or specifications.

Perform simulation activities including timing analysis, behavioral, and functional simulations.

Develop test benches and other test tools as needed to complete verification of FPGA designs.

Participate in the bring-up of new, custom FPGA-based hardware with support from firmware and electrical engineers.

Because of my contribution in early weeks from starting day, company saved 1,000,000+ USD.

Rail crossing control device firmware designed.

Performing real time testing and troubleshooting of mixed signal PCB assemblies.

Defining the production test needs and strategy

Preparing and performing hardware requirements tests, integration tests and verifications of deliverables.

Leading regulatory and customer mandated EMI/EMC compliance testing and troubleshooting.

Designing schematics and pCB layout bu using PADS.

Testing circuits.

Following Design tools were used:

Mentor Graphics PADS for schematics and PCB layout design

Altera FPGA IDE Quartus

Xilinx FPGA IDE ISE

Lattice Semiconductor FPGA Diamond

Performed a Simulation in the tools

TINA-TI Simulation tool

LTspice Simulation tool

Modelsim HDL simulator

Beckwith Electric Co., Inc. / Hubbell Inc. February2018 – July 2021

Principal Electrical Design Engineer / Staff Design Engineer

Designing analog accusation module (with the isolated amplifiers and AD converter) with the error and noise budget consideration.

Designed analog loop module, which includes Analog and digital, Surge and ESD protection circuits, by using Altium EDA.

Designed battery interface module, which includes Analog (with the analog signal conditioning and current measurement differential amplifier) and digital, Surge and ESD protection circuits, by using Altium EDA.

Provided a design solutions to be able to pass a surge tests and functionla tests for the Arc Flash module.

Prepared a plan and discussed with lab vendor for the testing of the Arc Flash protection module in real Arc Flash events.

Prepared the type test specification for the Arc flash protection device.

Prepared a customer documentation for the Arc Flash protection module.

Provided a design solutions to be able to pass 6KV surge test per IEEE C62-41.2 standard.

Provided a design solutions for one of product to decrease number of components by implementation of the FPGA and ARM MCUs and provided presentation to the management.

Provifing DFMA for the existing and new designs.

Provided troubleshooting guidline the longlsting Blackfin DSP booting issue at low temperatures.

Multiple signal integrity isses (in existing products) resolved.

Paticipated on the IEEE C37.60 testing of the one of existing product.

Designing and directing high-speed schematics and PCB layout in Altium with consideration of Grounding, Noise cansellation, EMC, EMI, ESD.

Testing of the circuits.

Performed a Simulation in the tools

TINA-TI Simulation tool

LTspice Simulation tool

To improve the electroncs HW development process the following documents created and presented to the management:

HW module design specification.

HW module testing (including type tests, functional tests, production tests, implementation testing) specification.

HW module development and maintenance check list.

HW module development and maintenance history.

HW design practice.

HW design guidline.

Organized a workshop and presentation for the engineering team:

Arrow: Intel (Altera), Microsemi, Lattice FPGA and SoC, and their implementation

Siemens(Mentor Graphics): IHyperlynx SI and PI tools and their implementation

Arrow: STmicro ASTM32H7 family ARM MCUs

Arrow: New power supply modules from the Analog devices.

Kinectricks lab: Arc Flash protection devise testing in high current lab.

ABB Ltd, April 2010 - February2018

Lead HW engineer/Hardware development Team leader/Line Manager

Hardware development and support activity:

Developed and updated operating procedures and work Instructions for the: Designing for Manufacturability; Design for Testability; Design for Reliability; Failure Mode Effect Analysis; Worst case analyses; Tolerance analyses; hardware development life cycle methodology (MileStone process).

Directed and verified of the EMC/EMI/ESD compliance, Environmental, Mechanical, Safety tests according UL, IEC and ANSI standards for Electrical/Electronic products.

Conducted design reviews, not limited to schematics, PCB layout, test procedures, cost analyzing.

Organized a workshops/presentation by the electronics manufacturer vendors.

Organized a workshops/presentation by the design tool vendors. In results such workshop, we implemented not limited to Signal/power integrity simulation tools from the Mentor graphic.

Searching, analyzing, creating and protecting intellectual properties.

Supported production for the customer issue, resolving EOL issue for the electronics components. Coordinated engineering activities with purchasing and manufacturing.

Provided on job trainings for the new hire, for the customer service and production personal.

Provided a coordination meeting with other departments outside USA.

Reverse engineering performed for competitor product analyses.

Technical activities provided:

Architecture Design: Evaluated ideas for new products and suggest system concepts for the implementation of the products. Worked closely with the project and product managers to generate product Technical Requirement Specifications (TRS). TRS included, not limited to: electrical, software, interface, mechanical, environmental, EMI/EMC, compliance to UL, ANSI, IEC standards, cost, materials, manufacturability, testing (including production) requirements.

Circuit Design: Designed Analog (with the signal conditioning, isolated amplifiers, analog front ends and AD converter) /Digital circuits, including microcontrollers and FPGAs. Worst case, tolerance, reliability, stress, thermal, cost analyses performed. Material selection performed working closely with SCM department. Conducted simulations. Generated and updated design documentations.

PCB layout: Designing and directing PCB layout design. Conducted Hyperlynx Signal/Power integrity simulation, signal integrity DRC on the PCB layout files before going to PCB production. Conducted Design for manufacturability, testability, thermal, mechanical stress analyses, components reliability.

Documentation: Generated/updated all design documentations, not limited to: design technical documents, design description, analyses reports, and production tests specifications.

Production: Realized design and documents to the production.

Following Design tools were used:

Mentor Graphics PADS for schematics and PCB layout design

Altera FPGA IDE Quartus

Xilinx FPGA IDE ISE

Xilinx FPGA Vivado

Microsemi FPGA IDE Libero

Testing of circuits.

Performed a Simulation in the tools

OrCAD Pspice Circuit Simulation

TINA-TI Simulation tool

LTspice Simulation tool

Mentor Graphics Hyperlynx Signal integrity

Mentor Graphics Hyperlynx Power integrity

Mentor Graphics Hyperlynx Signal integrity DRC toll

Modelsim HDL simulator

Product designed:

Released into production:

Integrated Switch Device (ISD) for control of magnetic actuator-based mechanisms

Universal Power Driver (UPD) to operate re-closers

Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) for control IEDs of the re-closers

Sensor Input Module (SIM) measures voltage from the power protection system

REF615R for retrofitting of the legacy protection relays

Released as prototype:

High Speed Output module

Spime

Load Control technologies, April 2008 – April 2010

Senior Electronics engineer

Developed Load measurement (using acoustics signals from transducer) portable device for Boeing: developed digital (with the FPGA and microcontroller)/analog (with the signal condition circuits and DA converter) hardware, switching power supplies, image processing VHDL code, firmware for Bar Code reading subsystem, which includes camera chip, NTSC/PAL/SECAM to YCbCr video decoder from Analog devices, ProASIC3 family flash FPGA from Actel, Renesas 32-Bit RISC Microcontroller SH7211, SRAM.

Developed hardware interface system, with implementing reverse engineering, between Load measurement device and Atlas-Copco torque device. This system is implemented and running in John-Deer tractor factory.

JPEG compression device by implementation of Xilinx FPGAs.

Developing automation system with involving motion control devices from Trio, IMS, and laser sensors from Banner.

The PCB layout design, support and directing in ORCAD.

Testing circuits.

Performed the Simulation in tools

OrCAD Pspice Circuit Simulation tool.

Modelsim HDL simulator

Directing engineering activities.

Manufacturing support.

L-3 Communications, Aug. 2002 to March 2008

Senior Hardware/Software design engineer in telecommunications area

Paticipated of developing embedded software for ISUP.

Designed embedded software for IVR applications.

Field support, SS7 implementation, support, testing.

Paticipated of developing hardware Subscriber line card.

Designed Radio Subscriber Unit's modem part. Used FPGA Spartan3, ARM9, different DAC and ADC, FLASH, DRAM, Ethernet PHY.

Designed Transcoder, that compresses 16 E1 of 64kbit/sec PCM speech channels to 1 E1

stream, and decompress 1 stream to 16 E1 channels. Used PowerPCs MPC8260, Ethernet PHYs, Dual port RAM, Different Flash memories, SRAMs, DRAM, TI DSPs TMS320VC5410, PCM timeslot interchanger switch fabric, E1/T1 Framers, Altera MAX300A family CPLDs, Altera Cyclone and Acex family FPGAs, PLLs and clock distributers and others.

Designed and updated a PCB layout by using a tool PCAD.

Testing circuits.

Performed the Simulation in the tools

Mentor Graphics Hyperlynx Signal integrity.

Modelsim HDL simulator

Designed Video compression core in VHDL by using fast 9/7 Daubechies discrete direct wavelet transformer (line based).

Designed very efficient GSM protocol analyzer component in VHDL.

ADDITIONAL PROJECTS

Developing H.264 video compression core.

JPEG/MJPEG core redesigned by decressing system clock frequence from the

8 times PIXEL CLOCK to 1 time PIXEL CLOCK.

Developing AVR soft processor by implementation of the custom made floating point arithmetics cores.

Implementing computer vision algorithms in FPGA for creating collision avoidance system.

Implementing af extended Kalman filter in FPGA.

High speed Digital data logger designed on base Lattice XP2 FPGA LAXP2-5E-5TN144E .

Designed VHDL components for:

oNAND Flash memory interface

oI2C interface

oSCCB interface

Designed fixed point arithmetic components for:

oSine function

oArctan by using CORDIC algorithm

oPID

Designed floating point mathematical operations cores per 32bits single-presizion IEEE 754 standard.

Implemented Silicon Labs Bloutooth Low Energy modules.

EXPERTISE AND SKILLS

Engineering management

Reverse enginnering

Digital circuit design

Analog circuit design

FPGA design by VHDL, Verilog

Hardware schematics and PCB layout design tools:PCAD, PADS,ORCAD, Eagle, Altium.

FPGA design tools:Modelsim, Xilinx ISE/Vivado, Altera Quartus, Actel Libero IDE, Lattice Diamond, Lattice Radiant.

Simualtion tools: Mentor HyperLynx, Mentor DRC, OrCad PSPICE

Image processing

Image compression

Sensors interfacing

EMC engineering

Signal Integrity engineering

Programming language. C

Microsoft Visual Basic

Microsoft Visual C++

Python

Embedded programming

Bluetooth Low Energy

ANSI/IEC Standarts knowledge

Type testing

PCB design and directing

Mechanical design

Production support

Maintenance

Technical documentation

Multilanguage: English, Azeri, Turkish, Russian,

EDUCATIONS

Ph.D. of Components and devices computer and control systems.

Institute of Cybernetics - Baku, Azerbaijan

B.Sc. / M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering.

Voronezh State Technical University- Voronezh, Russian federation

TRAININGS:

Maximiaze lidership ability

EMC for power industry

Mebthor Graphics Hyperlynx SI training

Mebthor Graphics PADS training

Project management

Management skills development programme

Fundamentals of Solaris 7

IP Routing and Bridging

Internal Quality Audits

ISO9001

PROFESIONAL MEMBERSHIP

IEEE

ESD assosiation

PATENTS

1.Patent US 9510475. Mechanical assembly and method to provide form-factor and wire alike adaptation of existing platform hardware modules into new products

2.Patent US 9451719 U form-factor intelligent electronic device (IED) hardware platform with matching of IED wiring, from a non U form-factor IED hardware platform using adapter structure

PUBLICATIONS

1.Organization of Speech Control. Published in “ Computer aided control systems in construction industry”.

2.Hardware & Software complex to automate investigation of multidimensional objects. Proceedings of Scientific Conference on control systems.

3.The system for recognition of speech signals. Proceedings of Scientific Conference on control systems.

4.An effective algorithm to construct standard words for speech recognition. Proceedings of Scientific Conference on control systems.

5.Other 8 publications covering topics such as speech recognition, acoustic diagnostics, and etc.

CIRIZENSHIP

US citizen.

DEVELOPED PRODUCTS

The picture of developed and released products to be provided upon request.

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