Experienced Microelectronics Design Engineer with 20 years of experience in designing, verifying and validating innovative digital IPs and Embedded Systems.

I worked in a large application domain containing video, signal processing, interfacing IPs for digital TV, Smart phone, defense, consumer ASICs and FPGA.

Expert in Front-End Digital EDA and Front-End Digital IC design, I went through the whole ASIC and FPGA design process from specification to Layout passing by functional verification and Logic/Physical Synthesis as well as Static Timing Analysis. I used cutting edge EDA tools and methodologies. Extensive knowledge of the Design Flow consolidated with Embedded Systems architecture, PCB Design and NMR/NQR instrumentation FPGA based design.

My major research activity, which aims to enhance the sensitivity of NQR/NMR instrumentation, is focused on two axes, the first one is FPGA design and validation as well as system design dedicated to the development of innovative and original NQR/NMR portable and miniaturized spectrometers.

The developed systems, hence embark digital and analog electronics as well as embedded software targeted to the detection and processing of weak RF signals especially for NQR technique .

In this context, I did the FPGA design, the embedded software design/upgrade, the system integration, the functional verification, the stand alone and system validation of an FPGA based compact NQR spectrometer.

My second research axis is the definition and implementation on SW or on digital hardware target (FPGA) of NQR/NMR de-noising techniques like SVD, digital filtering, NMR per-processings,…
The NQR technique, though it suffers from weak sensitivity, has a wide spectrum of possible applications like drugs analysis and counterfeits detection, narcotic detection, operator-secure explosive detection, and molecular structures studies.

The obtained results so far are very satisfying since, using the developed systems, we easily detected the expected frequencies for reference samples as well as for commercial ones (e.g. Commercial and lab synthesized Paracetamol) .

The SNR of the system was also significantly enhanced compared to old systems (x10 thanks to refurbishing and new acquisition using oversampling and then x2,5 thanks to FPGA design and integration).

In order to achieve these developments I brought up my expertise in FPGA/ASIC IC (Integrated Circuit) Digital Design coupled with my skills in embedded and PCB design. This expertise was accumulated during my past years in in microelectronics industry (ST-Microelectronics, Amesys, Cadence,…) in which I achieved the design and validation with first silicon success of several IPs and systems.