Reza Bahadur

Staff Ic Design Engineer @Intel

Santa Clara, US

Analog Designer in Silicon Photonics Solutions GroupDesign : TIA chip : TIA front end, AGC, Driver for 112 GBPS and 224 GBPS PAM4 OpticalChannel Interface[ 90 nm BICMOS GF 9HP process ]Worked on TIA Design for 112Gbps & 224Gbps PAM4 data. Input PD current 100uA-pp-2.5mA-pp (Optical power -10dBm to 4dBm), Peak-to-Peak Output of 400mV, Gain ranges from 44dB-72dB.Designed output open drain driver to achieve -15dB return loss at Nyquist, for each data rate.• 40 nm – Analog Technical Lead - Design : PMIC – High power current DAC : 14 bit current DACs, 10 bit current DACs - high power.Entire design cycle: chip Architected chip size from scratch, Architected circuit architecture, bump assignment and allocation, floorplanning, Design of analog circuits (65% of SoC). Novel architecture. Integration with digital - in SoC.• BiCmos – 9HP process – Analog Technical Lead - Design : Common Lane for TIA chip : 12 bit ADC, RC oscillator, VBG, VTOI, AMUX, ESDs, VLDOs, POR blocks.Entire Design Cycle (analog circuit design, layout, RV, TOTEM, REL, wafer sort, char, pcb dev, integration into system/product). • 40 nm – Design : SERDES Stand-Alone TX IC Driver. 32 GBPS: CTLE, Limiting Amplifier, Modulator Driver. Designed complete standalone IC TX Driver, to drive Modulator to Modulate Laser light source for High Speed Optical Comm System. Full in-depth study of architecture and interaction between Silicon and Photonics components. • 45 nm – Design : 6 bit ADC design – 1 GBPS – 3 Stage Pipeline ADC with single stage current based residue generation. Designed ADC with 3 pipeline stages. • 40 nm – Technical Lead – 28 GBPS CDRo Design: CDR Output Driver Improvemento Validation: Lead validation effort to debug previous revision of CDR to diagnose design issue and implement fix.o Characterization: Directed measurement of silicon for multiple protocols.o Wafer Level Testing: wafer level tests, test limits, and analyzing data to optimize yields.

University of California, Davis

MS, Electrical Engineering

University of California, Berkeley

BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science