Kevin Aylward B.Sc.
Analogue I.C. Design Team Leader
Overview
I am a professional Analogue I.C. Design Engineer, with 30 years expertise and experience. I am currently employed by a company in Harlow, Essex as a Principal Engineer/Analogue Design Team Leader. I am a UK born citizen and U.S. Naturalized citizen. I have been involved in electronics since the age of 11 years old.
I gained a B.Sc. Degree in Communications and Electronic Engineering from Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland in 1981. I have also undertook 6 post graduate M.S. Physics courses, including obtaining an 'A' grade in Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
I have had a wide variety of positions as an analogue design engineer, for example, Texas Instruments as Analogue IC Design Team Leader.
Professional Attributes
Best in world class in detailed transistor level design of analog integrated
circuits.
Expert in every aspect of detailed bipolar and cmos transistor level, mixed
mode, circuit design.
Expert in the detailed design of operational amplifiers, sample holds, band
gaps, phase looked loops, charge pumps, filters, and variable gain amplifiers,
utilizing such techniques as low voltage current mirrors, cascodes, differential
pairs, common mode feedback, and ptat generators.
Expert in the application of bipolar and cmos design equations in aspects such
as noise, bandwidth, distortion, feedthrough and matching accuracy.
Expert at designing and developing optimum transistor level topologies.
Expert in ensuring designs will function correctly at all process corners.
Consistent inventor of new topologies with state of the art performance.
Able to produce designs in an hour which takes many/most several weeks to
achieve
I have a grandmaster chess view understanding of analogue designs, knowing in
detail exactly why, and how to chose topologies and transistor sizes, weighing
up all relevant considerations such as the inter relation of accuracy,
bandwidth, power and chip size with such transistor sizes. This allows for true
optimum 1st time full functional pass, and the elimination of the common suck it
and see, multiple attempt approach typically used but not admitted to.
I am open to consideration of alternative opportunities, although it may well be worth having a deko at:
Food For Thought
So... is it 20 years experience or 1 years of experience, 20 times?
Is
it likely that David Beckham woke up one day at the age of 25 and said, well...ahmmmm...think I will become
Captain of the England squad, better pop down to the
local leisure center and see if someone can teach me how to kick a ball?