(March 16 –
June 30, 2013)
UW EE
Silicon System Research Laboratory
UW
Silicon System Research Laboratory is looking for two graduate students and a
number of undergraduate students who have background and interests in analog
integrated circuit design and tape out to join the Optical Receiver Design
team. The analog design tasks will
concentrate on state-of-art transimpedance amplifier circuit design,
simulation, optimization and tapeout. The students will work side by side with
experienced Boeing circuit designers and researchers.
The
Optical receiver project is exploring the use of plastic optical fiber for communication
backplane airplane applications. The
focus is to develop an innovative microchip for efficient data transmission
across plastic optical fibers to overcome the high attenuation of plastic to
optical signals. The project is sponsored by the State of Washington Joint
Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI) and the Boeing Corporation.
The
initial Phase of this project (Feb 1, 2013 to June 30 2013) consists of three
research tasks (1) to model the plastic optical fiber backplanes, (2) to
develop and simulate innovative communication digital signal processing
algorithms, and (3) to design, tape out
and test a microchip. This creates three
research assistantships available to graduate students and a number of
undergraduate research opportunities available immediately.
Required
Background and Experience:
(1) Analog
circuit design: operational amplifier design (senior-level analog circuit
course), virtuoso schematic design and layout, circuit simulation, analysis and
optimization.
(2) Digital
signal processing algorithms and communication is a plus
(3) Verilog-A
modeling is a plus
If
interested, please send your resume and transcripts to Professor Richard Shi,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle WA
98195, USA. Email: cjshi at uw dot edu.
