Michael Ashraf Saad

Summary

Currently a full-time AMS design engineer at Mediatek & Masters student at Ain Shams university who is eager to learn state of the art technology in Analog/mixed signal IC design, analyze complex problems and design the technology of the future

Birthdate

June 29, 1999

Gender

Male

Nationality

Egyptian

Residence

36 Nozha St. Ard el Golf - Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

Mediatek

Senior AMS design engineer

January 2025 - Now

Currently responsible for the design of a high speed VCO at 12GHz for 224Gbps PAM4/6/8 Solutions

Infinilink

AMS design engineer

August 2022 - January 2025

participated in the Design of ultra high speed SerDes solutions up to 224G data rates in deep sub-micron technologies (5nm,4nm,3nm,…) with experience in the following areas

Design of high speed serializers, high speed clock distribution & calibration
Design of high speed pre-drivers & drivers (up to 16Gbps) supporting different termination schemes
Design of high precision bandgap circuits employing chopping and dynamic element matching
Design of V2V and V2I circuits for generation of different types of current and voltage references
EM/IR debugging and verification flows
Aging & reliability verification flows
Implementation/simulation & verification of behavioral models and performing AMS co-simulations

Education

Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams university

Electronics & communications engineering - Masters of Science (MSc)

2023 - 2027

Cumulative GPA: 4.0

Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University

Electronics & Communications

2017 - 2022

Grade: Distinction with honors (Ranked 3rd on class)

Nefertari International School

Math Section

2003 - 2017

Grade: 97%

Projects

A 3.2 GS/s FIR DAC for a massive MIMO 5G transceiver

Granduation Project

Design flow:

1-Literature survey of RF vs FIR DACs for suitable implementation in the 28 Ghz sub band

2-System design of the chosen FIR DAC on matlab and simulink.

3-circuit level design of the FIR DAC and verification with system level matlab model.

A High Precision low voltage bandgap reference

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1x44BkjG-Uqoc-d6QRlA00qLCwIirNp_e?usp=sharing

A 7-bit segmented current steering DAC

Courses and Certificates

Mixed Signal Simulations Using Spectre AMS Designer

https://www.credly.com/badges/47af0857-7933-40fb-a82b-fd17542bb26e

Analog Modeling with Verilog-A

https://www.credly.com/badges/13a2b9ff-e01d-49bf-b60e-7c3bc8038384

Languages

Arabic:

Mother Tongue

English:

Fluent

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Senior AMS design engineer at Mediatek