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Kevin Glass's Experience:
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Principal Engineer / Director at Sierra Monolithics
2008 - Present | Redondo Beach, CAArchitecture & mm-wave circuit design of data converters, frequency synthesizers, advanced RF and fiber optic communication I.C.s.; utilizing IBM 65nm CMOS-10RFE, 45nm CMOS-12SOI, 32nm CMOS-32SOI, and 130nm BiCMOS/SiGe 8HP. • 100GB and 40GB fiber optics - Coherent Receiver. 1. Design of 66Gsps 6 b flash A/D converter in 8HP, using many new architecture and mm-wave circuit innovations. 2. Highly interleaved 8 bit A/D integrated with DSP, in 32nm CMOS-SOI, for one-chip fiber optic Coherent Receiver. 3. Highly interleaved 6 bit A/D integrated with DSP, in 45nm CMOS-SOI, for one-chip fiber optic Coherent Receiver. 4. Developed 66Gsps 6 b pipelined A/D, requiring innovative new mm-wave circuits and pipeline architecture. 5. 4x22GB, 2x42GB and 44GB fiber optic SERDESs. Systems and circuit support. 6. Four patents issued for new technologies at these frequencies. • Band-pass delta-sigma A/D converter – 44Gsps, 200MHz bandwidth, 11 1/2 bits. 1. Development of architecture using MATLAB. Two patents issued on this architecture. 2. Design of a 44 GHz 4 bit flash A/D quantizer, 44 GHz resonators, 44GHz D/A Converter. • Massively Parallel Array Delta-Sigma A/D converter. 1. Design of asynchronous delta-sigma modulator and all linear circuits in 0.65nm RF CMOS 10LPE. 2. Micro-architecture, logic and top level chip planning. • Point to Point Radio – High data rate network backhaul – 256 QAM at 12/24GHz.