Zakaria Khwaja

About Zakaria Khwaja

Ready for new challenges - Leading a Circuit/Physical design team and Physical design delivery.High performance Microprocessor Design (1994 - Present)- Smooth Execution: Plan, Design, and Deliver!Specialties: Expertise in Register File Design, Digital Custom Circuit Design, Logic Synthesis, Timing, Layout, Integration, Lab Characterization, Design Automation, Tools and Methodology.

Experience

1. Senior Engineer

   IBM

   Sep 1997 — Present

   IBM Systems Group - High Performance Microprocessor Design- Design Lead for many generations of System Z Microprocessor Instruction Sequence Unit Circuit/Physical design/timing- High level design to implementation of chip design for high performance microprocessorUnit/Block Circuit Lead for Z system Microprocessor design- POWER5 Lead - Microprocessor Unit Circuit/Physical Design - POWER4/5/6 Microprocessor Circuit/Physical Design- POWER 10/11 Microprocessor Hierarchical/Large block Circuit/Physical DesignCircuit Designer - Custom circuit, Synthesis, Register file and Timing

Education

• Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

  BSEEE, Electrical Engineering

  1984 — 1989

• Louisiana State University

  MSEE, Electrical Engineering

  1991 — 1993

Skills

• Integrated Circuit Design
• Microprocessors
• Soc
• Computer Architecture
• Fpga
• Asic
• Cadence
• Ic
• Signal Integrity
• Systemverilog
• Tcl
• Analog
• Layout
• Functional Verification
• Hardware Architecture
• Logic Synthesis
• Vlsi
• High Performance Computing
• Perl
• Embedded Systems
• Eda
• Semiconductors
• Verilog
• Processors
• Cmos
• Mixed Signal
• Circuit Design
• Characterization
• Vhdl
• Integration
• Timing Closure
• Rtl Design
• Cadence Virtuoso
• Digital Circuit Design
• Static Timing Analysis
• Digital Signal Processors
• Analog Circuit Design
• Logic Design
• Spice
• Timing