Sami Abdelmalak

About Sami Abdelmalak

Experienced Signal Integrity Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the electrical and electronic manufacturing industry. Skilled in ANSYS HFSS, Matlab, Altium Designer, SI Wave, Cadence PowerDC, Cadence PowerSI and Electronics- Strong understanding of transmission-line theory, s-parameters and signal integrity issues, such as crosstalk, insertion loss, return loss, mode conversion, skew, jitter, ringing, and reflections- Designed, modeled and developed High-Speed cable assemblies and connectors including paddle cards, Module Compliance Board and Host Compliance Boards- Experience using high-speed mixed signal laboratory equipment, such as Vector Network Analyzer (VNA) up to 50 GHz, Digital Oscilloscopes, Time Domain Reflectometers (TDRs), Bit Error Rate Tester (BERT), Function generator and Digital Power Supplies- Designed and developed a 100Gbps channels for Optical transceiver modules in the XSR and TIA - Design and developed a high speed packages for DSP - Design and developed Electrical and Optical ICs full channel RF path through silicon- Design and developed a full high speed channel from Host to EIC in optical transceiver modules- Experienced with a power integrity tools such as PowerDC and clarity - Design and development of High-Speed I/O cable assemblies and connectors such as Paddle Cards, Module Compliance Boards, Host Compliance Boards to be compliance with SAS4, PCIE 3.0, 4.0, 5.0 and 802. 3bj and 802. 3cd- Full channel modeling and simulation of a cable from MCB to MCB using HFSS and Ansys Circuits to correlate with measurements- Correlation of simulations and measurements of High-Speed cable assemblies using Ansys PLTS- Responsible for design and development of High Speed I/O Cable assemblies such as SFP28, QSFP, QSFP-DD, Slim SAS 4i, Slim SAS 8i and EDSFF 1C, EDSFF 2C and EDSFF 4C

Experience

1. Signal and Power Integrity Engineer

   Cisco

   Jul 2022 — Present

Education

• Penn State University

  Bachelor's degree

  2016 — 2018