NICK CHANG
140 La Rue Road, Apt#121
Davis, CA 95616
Tel/Fax: (530) 754-3098
E-mail: bulahee@ece.ucdavis.edu
OBJECTIVE:
Mixed-signal IC design
EDUCATION:
University of California, Davis, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. 9/99 - present
Columbia University, Electrical Engineering, M.S. 5/99
Columbia University, Electrical Engineering, B.S. 5/98
PUBLICATIONS:
Co-author of the Solution Manual to an undergraduate Microelectronics textbook (due in Fall, 2001), 12/00-4/01
RESEARCH PROJECTS:
DSP programming for a real-time background calibration pipeline ADC for gain, offset correction, 3/01 - present
WORKING EXPERIENCE:
Toshiba Engineering Corp.,Tokyo, Japan (Product Engineer) 6/96 - 8/96
- Custom programming with Toshiba Ladder Language for customer needs.
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., San Jose (Testing Engineer) 7/97 - 9/97
- Working in a hardware team to
test Digital Set-top box systems and Satellite broadcast
decoders.
- Programming in C to test audio MPEG functionality on chip.
Lucent Technologies Inc. (Bell Lab), Allentown, PA (Member of Technical Staff) 6/99 - 8/99
- Design 1.0/1.25 Volts, 1 GHz 5-bit Frequency Divider, in 0.18 micron CMOS. TAPPED OUT!!!
RELEVENT COURSE WORKS:
Wireless Communication (CDMA, FDMA, TDMA, GSM)
Electronic Circuit (Integrated Circuit/IC, BJT, MOSFET, CMOS design) & Laboratories
Solid-state Device & Material (semi-conductor, PN Junction device, Junction Transistors)
Digital Image Processing (thresholding, halftoning, nonlinear filtering, MPEG) Project: JAVA image filter
Design Laboratory - Project: IF amplifier 10.7MHz of a FM receiver
Departmental Project - JAVA Applet for multimedia demonstration
Analog IC Design in VLSI (ADC, DAC, switcap circuits) Project: a DAC and a 4th pulse-shaping filter
Communication Circuit (RF, IF, Mod, Demod, Multiplier, Mixer) Project: Low-power IF amplifier, 10 MHz
VLSI (CMOS, BiCMOS, fabrication process, MOS devices, topics in various building blocks)
Analog IC (IC designs) Project: Audio signal CMOS operational amplifier
VLSI Design Laboratory - Project: 16 bit booth-encoded, array multiplier
MOS Transistor (MOS modeling)
Discret-time Signal Processing
Visual System Information (MPEG1, 2, 2, Video/Audio Encoding, Decoding.)
Computer Communication Networks (Internet, Protocol layering, PSTN, Packet network)
Linear System Theory (Fourier Transform, Mix-signal, Laplace Transform, A/D, D/A)
Classical Electrodynamics (Green's Theorem/Fuction, electomagnetics)
Analog MOS IC in Signal Processing (adaptive equalizer, channel modeling, AGC, sampled-data, continuous filters)
Advance Analog Circuit Design (Noise, Distortion analysis in MOSFET)
Adaptive System (adaptive filter designs)
Control Theory (root-locus, Nyquist stability, phase/gain margins)
ACTIVITIES
- Columbia Sounds of China Lion
Dancer 1997 - current
- Show host at
WKCR 89.9 FM radio station, New York 1995 - 1998
- Sounds of
China (school club), 1995 - current
- Chandler Society Newsletter
co-editor 1994 - 1995
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Programming languages &
scripts: C, Pascal, HTML, JAVA, JAVA Script
- Systems: Windows 95/98, UNIX,
Windows NT 4.0/2000, Linux
- Simulators & CAD tools:
SPICE, IRSIM, Switcap, MAGIC, MathCad, Celerity, Cadence
- Languages spoken: Mandarin,
Taiwanese, English, Japanese
ACADEMIC HONORS:
Reference available upon request

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