OBJECTIVE
Seeking a hardware engineer position with a company that offers good opportunities for
professional growth.
EXPERIENCE
Silicon Motion Inc., Milpitas, CA 2006-2012
Senior Hardware Applications Engineer
·Designed and built VGA and graphics SoC demo boards by going through part selections,BOM creation, schematic capture, PCB design rules creation, board and system level bring-up, debug and verification.
·Managed prototype builds with contract manufacturer.
·Designed and built a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA PCIe prototype board for validating
different IPs of the USB Display project.
·Reviewed substrate layout of new graphics chips for ASIC Design team.
·Performed functional validation on new revisions of the PCI and PCIe graphics chips.
·Provided technical support to graphics OEM customers and field applications engineer by
a) Solving customers' problems and questions by emails.
b) Reviewing customers' initial designs.
c) Troubleshooting and debugging customers' problem prototypes.
·Performed system-level tests on RMA chips from customer.
·Proofread data manuals and wrote application notes for graphics products.
PortalPlayer Inc., Santa Clara, CA 2004-2006
Contractor
·Performed bench tests on all the functions of the new revision and RMA chips of the 5020 and 5022 (System-On-a-Chip used in the first generation Apple iPod).
O2Micro Inc., Santa Clara, CA 1999-2002
Senior Applications Engineer
·Verified a Multimedia Memory/Memory Stick/SmartMedia Host Memory design and 1394 OHCI design by using Xilinx Virtex FPGA.
·Designed engineering FPGA PCB boards for validating a Multimedia Memory/Memory Stick/SmartMedia Host Memory design and a 1394 OHCI design.
·Created the top-level file for the FPGA of these Host Memory and 1394 designs.
·Created and provided a 1394 system-level functional test procedure to verifying their preliminary ASIC test bench.
·Verified a three-socket Cardbus design under Windows by implementing a unit comprised of a GAL22V10, a single-socket and a dual-socket Cardbus PCI boards.
National Semiconductor Corp., Santa Clara, CA 1998-1999
Staff Systems Engineer
·Performed functional validation on 5540’s (South Bridge) ACPI, GPIO, and IDE portions.
·Created a validation plan for a PCMCIA controller.
Cirrus Logic Inc., Fremont, CA 1993-1998
(Appian Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA)
Senior Hardware Applications Engineer
·Provided technical support for PCMCIA and IDE OEM customers by
a) Solving and answering customers' problems and questions on the phone.
b) Reviewing customers' initial designs.
c) Trouble-shooting and debugging customers' problem prototypes.
·Performed board level characterization on PCMCIA and IDE products that include
a) 6729 and 6730 PCI-to-PCMCIA bridge controllers,
b) 6833 and 6834 PCI-to-Cardbus bridge controllers,
c) ADI2 VL-to-IDE bridge controller, and ADI3 VL/PCI-to-IDE bridge controller.
·Designed and built IDE demo boards.
·Proofread data manuals and wrote application updates for PCMCIA and IDE products.
·Performed quality assurance tests on DOS and Windows alpha drivers of the IDE products.
·Provided technical training to field applications engineers for PCMCIA and IDE products.
Alaris, Inc., Fremont, CA 1992-1993
Hardware Engineer
·Troubleshot 486 prototype motherboards and VESA Local Bus VGA prototype graphics adapters.
·Set up testing and debugging ter...
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