Dr. Farzad Parsaie

- Automotive Functional Safety (ISO 26262, IEC 61508, ISO 13849) Technology Management - Analysis of Automotive MEMS/Sensors and Mixed-Signal ASICs (FMEA, FMEDA, D-FMEA, etc.) - Analog/Mixed-Signal/RF Blocks and ASIC Development and Review - Optical Detector (PiN, SPAD) Modeling and Interfacing

Cross-disciplinary sensor product developments for functional safety applications (SIL3). MEMS, ASIC, Photonic Devices, HW/SW & Mechanical Engineering, Failure Analysis, Test/Evaluation & Product Engineering.

Management of remote Analog and Mixed-Signal IC design teams located in Switzerland and Austria. Switched cap and continuous time Sigma Delta Modulators, low noise amplifiers, charge pumps, LDOs, careful power consumption vs noise and Chip area trade-offs, signal processing, MEMS, MEMS interfaces, digital MEMS microphone interfaces.

System investigation and circuit design of GSM/EDGE/UMTS radio transmit path including DAC and biquad active post filters with 65nm standard CMOS process. System investigation, signal processing and circuit design of GSM/EDGE baseband radio receive path including a continuous time Sigma Delta ADC with a 4th-order complex filter (0.25um CMOS). Design of 4th-order continuous time Sigma Delta ADCs for audio.

Research on high-speed CMOS photodiodes and photoreceivers and optical interconnect (fiber to chip). Design of small area high-speed photoreceivers with standard CMOS and Bipolar processes. Development of a novel equivalent circuit model for high-speed CMOS photodiodes. Steering the development of a new optical test method for high-speed circuits on wafer level by fiber to chip coupling with industrial and academic research partners.

Microelectronics, Optoelectronics, Electromagnetics