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Expert in III-V Semiconductor, GaAs ICs
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Expert is the President and founder of Top-Expert Technology, a research and development company that specializes in chip design, microsensors, and microsystems. The company was founded to develop GaAs microsensors and microsystems and to provide chip design services using silicon, gallium arsenide, and indium phosphide technologies. Services include design, layout and test of digital and analog integrated circuits (chip design -- Si, SiGe, SiC, GaAs, InP, etc); system integration of microcircuits; and signal processing of sensor data. Top-Expert is developing three generic gallium arsenide (GaAs)-based microsystem products: 1) microsensors/micromachines, 2) analog preprocessors and 3) digital processors. Top-Expert is an independent design center for Triquint, Vitesse and Rockwell GaAs foundries. Top-Expert specializes in chip design, communication ICs, and microsystems. Expert is currently developing wireless, wireline and fiber-optic transceivers (transmitters and receivers). He has developed microsensor systems including microsensors/micromachines, trans-impedance amplifiers, readout electronics, analog to digital converters, and digital signal processors. He has surveyed several semiconductor foundries. He developed silicon analog chips for a large commercial company. He is responsible for formulating the business and technical direction for the company, and for its development.
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Expert has 20 years of experience in integrated circuit design and device modeling. He is involved with the design, layout, and test of digital and analog integrated circuits.
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Expert is very experienced in developing gallium (GaAs) integrated circuits. He is developing three generic GaAs-based mircrosystem products: microsensors, analog preprocessors, and digital processors. Top-Expert Technology specializes in gallium arsenide based microelectronics and is developing several GaAs microsystem products.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Minneapolis, Minnesota;
Saint Paul, Minnesota;
Rochester, Minnesota;
Burnsville, Minnesota;
Saint Cloud, Minnesota;
Eden Prairie, Minnesota;
Minnetonka, Minnesota;
and Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
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1982
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P.D.R.P.
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Electrical Engineering
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University of Minnesota
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1980
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M.E.E.
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Electrical Engineering
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University of Minnesota
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1977
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B.E.E.
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Electrical Engineering
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University of Minnesota
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1989 to
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President and Chief Engineer
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Expert founded the company that specializes in chip design, communication IC's, and microsystems. He has developed wireless, wireline, and fiber-optic transceivers (transmitters and receivers). He developed microsensor systems including microsensors/micromachines, trans-impedance amplifiers, readout electronics, analog to digital converters, and digital signal processors. Surveyed several semiconductor foundries. He developed silicon analog chips for a large commercial company. He is responsible for formulating the business and technical direction for the company, and for its development. He Obtained and has been successfully performing on several contracts, grants, and IR&D projects. The largest contracts to date are $400K from a large commercial company, $750K from DoD and $500K from NASA, and the largest grant is $260K from NSF. Expert coordinates on an average of 10 professionals that include subcontractors.
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1980 to 1989
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Honeywell, Inc.
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Systems and Research Center
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Principal Research Scientist
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In the microelectronics and microsystems science area, Expert performed IC design and device modeling of Si bipolar VLSI/VHSIC digital chips in ISL and CML, and unipolar analog chips in CCD, MOS, and CMOS mux/readout/signal processing for IR-FPA sensors. He developed silicon ICs including a VLSI/VHSIC electro-optical signal processor and controller chip set, four bipolar gate arrays, two ROMs, one static RAM and analog MOS/CMOS chips. He designed and modeled GaAs analog and digital devices using depletion- and enhancement-mode MESFETs and heterojunctions. Expert developed GaAs IC's including five gate arrays, two static RAM's, three A/D and four D/A converters, analog IC's, and MMIC's. The highest frequency was at 35 GHz (Ka band). He worked on opto-electronics integrated circuits, designed a multiplexer and a driver for interfacing with an on-chip laser, and worked on a phase locked loop for a microwave transceiver. Expert also worked on signal processing of electro-optical systems, electronic warfare, and computer architectures for chip integration and insertion. He was principal investigator and/or program manager on several projects.
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1977 to 1980
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Sperry Univac
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Storage Technology
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Associate Engineer
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Expert performed logic design and test of computer memory modules, and integrated circuit design and test of silicon bipolar LSI gate arrays for high performance CPUs.
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Associations/Societies
Expert is a member of IEEE.
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Professional Appointments
He was the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems from 1988-1991. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and was Session Chair for several IEEE Conferences. He was a Lecturer for University of Minnesota's Electrical Engineering Department on integrated circuits and microsystems at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He served on the Technical Program Committee for GaAs IC Symposium ('99-'01), was Chair of the Digital, Time Domain and OEIC Subcommittee, and was Chair of Communication Sessions. He organized and moderated panels on "Industry Roadmap to 40 Gb/s" and "40 Gb/s Ics.” He was Guest Editor for a special issue on High-Speed Circuits for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, September 2001.
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Awards/Recognition
Expert received Excellence awards from Honeywell, the State of Minnesota, and national organizations. He received the IR-100 Award for a product on GaAs Gate Array with On-Chip RAM. He received the Best Paper Award for a paper on GaAs-Based Microsensor Systems (GOMAC'98).
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Publications and Patents Summary
He is the author of 11 patents and over 70 papers, the author of an IEEE videotape short course on System Insertion of GaAs Technology, and the Editor of a book on Compound Semiconductor ICs for World Scientific Publishing, April 2003.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- World Scientific Publishing Co.
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- Air Force Research Laboratory Mixed-Signal Seminar at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
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- Government Microcircuit Applications Conference (GOMAC)
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2003 to 2004
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Air Force
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Contractor
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Expert developed RF front-end components for receiver-on-chip.
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Vietnamese
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Expert's mother tongue is Vietnamese and he is therefore fluent in it.
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French
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He can read and write French.
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Training/Seminars
Lectured at the microelectronic workshops on various semiconductor technologies and microsystems organized by the Honeywell Solid State Electronics Center, since 1985. He is an author of an IEEE videotape short course on System Insertion of GaAs Technology, and was a Lecturer for the University of Minnesota's Electrical Engineering Department on integrated circuits and microsystems at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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