CERN
Senior Fellow System Engineer
August 2021 - Present
Project summary and main objectives:
- Digital ASIC design of monolithic active sensor miniMALTA3: I2C communication protocol design, test and physical implementation, characterisation with liberate MX of SRAM memory, integration of serialiser with Aurora 64/66 bits encoder and LVDS driver
- Commissioning of the outer barrel demonstrator of the inner tracker detector of ATLAS for HL-LHC, which will be installed in 2027
- Test of the DAQ chain with recommended firmware and software
- Development of tools to help production sites with system integration
- Setup of multi-module test benches for characterisation of readout for further improvements on software and firmware
- Responsible for supervising students and ATLAS qualification tasks
PHD Student
April 2018 - July 2021 Geneva, Switzerland
- Digital ASIC design: RTL, synthesis, place and route and verification for rad-hard monolithic sensor Mini-Malta and new digital configuration block for Malta2 with Cadence EDA tools (genus & Innovus)
- ITkPixV1 chip characterisation of Single Event Effects
- Architecture simulations to ensure data output bandwidths
- Implementation of an emulator with two FPGAs to check digital design
- Development of new readout firmware and software for Malta2
- Test-beam and lab characterisation of Mini-Malta sensor
- Development of an analysis software used in lab and test-beams
- Instruction of students in digital design and testing
University of Glasgow
Electronics engineer
Jan 2015 - Apr 2018 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Digital verification with UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) for the CERN CMOS readout chip RD53A
- Data transmission coordinator for ATLAS ITk Pixel Upgrade
- PCB design: schematics, layout, gerbers, BOM, Pick & Place for radiation hard high-speed circuits with Altium software: LHCb vacuum feed-through and high-speed adapter boards
- FE-chip Wafer probing with Wentworth machine
- Testing (VNA, BERT, high-speed scope), simulation (ANSYS and python) and characterisation of different transmission lines: cables, flex-tapes for high-speed electrical transmission
- Organisation of a Data Transmission Workshop in Glasgow
- Writing services specification and requirements documents and TDR
STMicroelectronics
Embedded System EngineerEmbedded System Engineer
Jun 2014 - Dec 2014, Crolles
Project Description: Development of an intelligent and autonomous wireless IPV6 network (Internet of Things, IoT)
Responsibilities and achievements
- Conception, placement, routing, and component selection (BOM) for a PCB containing analogue and digital sensors with DesignSpark
- PCB testing
- Integrating team work with GIT
- I2C, SPI and I2S drivers development for the STM32L152RE Cortex M3 microprocessor, in order to introduce to the network the new sensors: light MEMS, humidity and a microphone, C language for Contiki OS
- Development of signal processing algorithms for sound
- Porting code from STM32F4 to STM32L152RE
GIPSA-lab
Research Internship
May 2013 - Jul 2013 Grenoble Area, France
Project: " Electrochemical noise characterisation for fuel cell analysis"
Responsibilities and achievements
- Research into theory and physics of signal processing: Allan variance, Wavelets and Fourier Analysis
- Testing ambience influence in the electrochemical noise produced by Fuel Cells.
- Laboratory tests which include taking measurements of voltage and current with the Fuel Cell
- Implementation in Matlab of different tests using Allan variance, Wavelet Transform and Fourier Analysis to be able to conclude results
- Production of extensive report on findings and recommendations
