Kevin Glass

About Kevin Glass

PROFILE FOR KEVIN GLASSKevin Glass is technical leader with extensive experience in the successful design and development of some of the most advanced chips in the semiconductor industry. Consistent first time success, the result of innovation, leadership, organization, and attention to detail. Chip designs range from high volume products, to advanced R&D technology developments including: mm-wave 10-44GHz+ fiber optic, data conversion, and radio components; Cellular handset RF frontends and synthesizers, and high MIPs/watt programmable DSPs; along with the most advanced highest performance microprocessors. Aggressive projects on aggressive schedules with prodigious IP production.CORE COMPETENCIES FOR KEVIN GLASSWireless: Systems Architecture and Analysis; GSM, EDGE, WCDMA, UMTS, LTE, 3GPP, ETSI; Receiver and Transmitter Line Ups, Sensitivity, EVA, Zero IF; Fractional N Frequency Synthesizers; A/D, D/A, Delta Sigma; Band Pass Delta Sigma; LNAs, Mixers, Filters, Opamps, LDOs, References. Fiber Optics: System Analysis, OC-192, OC-768, 802.3ae, 802.3ba, 100G OIF, OTN; Coherent Receiver, 66Gsps A/D, Transmit Pre-distortion; 44GHz Laser and Modulator Drivers, CDR, Mux, De-Mux, TIA, and Limiting Amps, mm-Wave; Modules; Laser Biasing; CMOS Active Pixel Arrays.Microprocessors/DSP/VLSI: Micro-Architecture Development, x86, MIPs, iA64, ARM, DSPs, Computer Arithmetic, Cache, Floating Point, Memories, High-Speed Data path, Logic Design, Chip Planning, Performance Modeling and Validation, Timing Verification, Design Methodology, Chip Planning, Process Modeling.Management: Planning, Scheduling, Product Definition, Market Analysis, Multinational, Responsible for up to 30 engineers.CAD Tools: Cadence, Spectre RF, ADS, HFSS, Sonnet, Matlab, Excel, VerilogA, Msim, Verilog, C, C++, may other tools WEBSITES ABOUT KEVIN GLASS http://kevin-glass.com/ http://kevinglass.info/

Experience

1. Principal Engineer Director

   Sierra Monolithics

   Jan 2008 — Present · Redondo Beach, CA, US

   Architecture and mm-wave circuit design of data converters, frequency synthesizers, advanced RF communication and fiber optic communication I.C.s; utilizing IBM 65nm CMOS-10RFE, 45nm CMOS-12SOI, 32nm CMOS-32SOI, and 130nm BiCMOS/SiGe 8HP.100GB and 40GB fiber optics - Coherent Receiver. Design of 66Gsps 6 b flash A/D converter in 8HP, using many new architecture and mm-wave circuit innovations. Highly interleaved 8 bit A/D integrated with DSP, in 32nm CMOS-SOI, for one-chip fiber optic Coherent Receiver. Highly interleaved 6 bit A/D integrated with DSP, in 45nm CMOS-SOI, for one-chip fiber optic Coherent Receiver. Developed 66Gsps 6 b pipelined A/D, requiring innovative new mm-wave circuits and pipeline architecture. 4x22GB, 2x42GB and 44GB fiber optic SERDESs. Systems and circuit support. Four patents issued for new technologies at these frequencies.Band-pass delta-sigma A/D converter – 44Gsps, 200MHz bandwidth, 11 1/2 bits. Development of architecture using MATLAB. Two patents issued on this architecture. Design of a 44 GHz 4 bit flash A/D quantizer, 44 GHz resonators, 44GHz DAC. Massively Parallel Array Delta-Sigma A/D converter. Design of asynchronous delta-sigma modulator and all linear circuits in 0.65nm RF CMOS 10LPE. Micro-architecture, logic and top level chip planning. Point to Point Radio – High data rate network backhaul – 256 QAM at 12/24GHz.

Education

• Arizona State University

  Course work and research towards PhD in Electrical Engineering

• Arizona State University

  MSEE, Electical Engineering

  1990

• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  BSEE, Electical Engineering