Please don't print this page. See my resume page's PostScript and PDF formats. Mackenzie R. Scott ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1175 Lake Blvd Apt 127, Davis, CA 95616 Phone: (831) 588-6374 mrscott_at_ucdavis.edu http://www.ece.ucdavis.edu/~mac/ ---------------------------------------------------- Objective Obtain a position to develop energy efficient circuits, and systems. ---------------------------------------------------- Education University of California, Davis Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Expected September 2010 Engineering Major: Low Power Architecture and Circuit Design, Minor: Physics GPA: 3.87 University of California, Davis M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering April 2010 GPA: 3.94 University of California, Davis B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering with June 2004 Honors Emphasis: Digital Circuits and Systems GPA: 3.53 ---------------------------------------------------- Skills Programming Languages and Scripting: C/C++, Assembly (8086/MIPS/HC12/HC11), VHDL, Verilog, Unix Shell Scripting, Perl, Skill, Scheme, HTML, CSS, Latex Software: Cadence Tools, Virtuoso Layout Suite, Virtuoso Schematic Editor, Virtuoso Analog Design Environment, Spectre, SoC Encounter, Synopsys Design Compiler, Sentaurus TCAD, VCS, Aurora, HSPICE, Nanosim, Matlab, Xilinx ISE, Modelsim, Altera Max+Plus II, Mentor Graphics Calibre, SWITCAP, FastCap, Microsoft Office, Visio, Subversion Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, Microsoft Windows Laboratory Tools: Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzers, Power Supplies, Keithley and Tektronix GPIB Interfaces ---------------------------------------------------- Experience Micropower Circuits and Engineering Researcher, ECE Systems Group Department Davis, CA January 2006 - Present * Conducted an exploration of pulse width modulation circuitry for on-chip low power interconnect design in a sensor network processing node. Work culminated in a master's thesis and test chip fabricated in 0.25um CMOS technology. * Participated in the design, simulation, layout, and testing of a fabricated DSP array. * Modeled and characterized Silicon Nanowire FET devices using TCAD software. * Created SPICE libraries from Nanowire FET simulations in 90nm and 22nm technologies to evaluate the impact on interconnect and power gating circuitry. * Created a CAD tool to optimize the design space of a 3D IC reconfigurable architecture. * Engineered and documented a semi-custom CAD tool flow to test various architectural designs of a low power signal processing array. * Improved the accuracy of layout parasitic models by editing the DIVA extraction rules. * Automated testing of custom ICs using C code to interface simultaneously with multiple pieces of lab equipment and check for errors. * Mentored and familiarized new graduate and undergraduate group members with available systems/software, lab equipment, and ongoing research. University of California, Teaching Assistant, ECE Davis Department Davis, CA April 2005 - Present * Led over 20 undergraduate students in weekly lab sections, held office hours, created problem set solutions, and graded assignments in Digital Systems II - 2 quarters, and Digital Integrated Circuits - 1 quarter. * Debugged SPICE code, lab equipment, and software issues concerning logic synthesis for FPGAs, and digital circuit design. University of California, Course Reader, ECE Davis Department Davis, CA September 2004 - September 2005 * Evaluated coursework and programs within deadlines for Computer Structure and Assembly Language, Electronic Circuits I, and Circuits I. University of California, Student Programmer IV, CS Davis Department Davis, CA September 2002 - September 2004 * Maintained, set up, and troubleshot over 100 Red Hat Linux 9.0 and HP-UX computer systems - including network setup/cabling, hardware/software upgrades, and Kickstart installations. * Provided technical support to students and faculty in person, over the phone, and using an email based tracking system - including account maintenance, login, quota, application, network, and printing problems. * Developed shell scripts for instructional facility administration. ---------------------------------------------------- Publications M. Scott, and R. Amirtharajah, "Pulse Width Modulation for Reduced Peak Power Full-Swing On-Chip Interconnect," in International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED), 2009, pp.213-218. L. Guo, M. Scott, R. Amirtharajah, "An Energy Scalable Functional Unit for Sensor Signal Processing," IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2007, pp. 73-76. L. Guo, M. Scott, R. Amirtharajah, "An Energy Scalable Computational Array for Sensor Signal Processing," IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), 2006, pp. 317-320. ---------------------------------------------------- Awards, Activities, and UC Davis Block Grant Fellowship (2009) Affiliations IEEE and Solid State Circuits Society (SSCS) Student Member since 2002 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Student Member since 2004 Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society Golden Key International Honour Society National Society of Collegiate Scholars Poster presenter for UC Davis ECE Department Industrial Affiliates Conference since 2007 ---------------------------------------------------- References Available on request. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [Converted LaTeX --> HTML by ltoh] Mackenzie Ryan Scott (mrscott@ucdavis.edu) Last modified: May 2 2010