Jeffrey L. Witt

Education:

  
 

University of Delaware Newark, DE
  • Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, June 1981
  • GPA: Cumulative: 3.79/4.00, Magna Cum Laude

William Penn High School New Castle, DE

  • Salutatorian, Math Award, Science Award

Employment:

April 1997 to
present

AMI Semiconductor Lower Gwynedd, PA

Design Engineering Manager, Principal Engineer, Scientist I

Mixed Signal Development, Timing Generator Products

  • Manage mixed-signal ASIC and standard product development, three to eight engineers
  • directly involved (lead or assist) in over 20 mixed-signal and digital ASIC and standard product developments (see appendix)
  • Interface with layout and test
  • Perform digital circuit design, at behavioral, gate, and transistor levels, including: RAMs, ROMS, LCD drivers, charge pumps, 65C02 integration and peripherals, Z80 integration and peripherals, PLL design, pad cells, high speed/low skew counters and logic, DACs, ADCs
  • Perform Verilog simulations; designed testbenches for design verification and test vector generation
  • Performed cell/block layout
  • developed Unix scripts and Windows command-prompt scripts and utilites for simulation control, verification support, netlist manipulation and conversion, ROM code generation
  • Developed and implemented cost-effective test strategies, including ad-hoc and BIST techniques as well as embedded microprocessor-driven test enhancements via assembly language routines, custom FPGA-based test hardware, and "tester-aware" Verilog testbenches
  • Perform analog simulations (SPICE and Spectre)
  • Generate Verilog models for analog blocks, memories, and system level functions and interfaces
  • Assist with quotes, wrote and reviewed specifications, customer visits, etc.
  • Write and debug test programs on KTS6120 (Sentry 21 clone), Sentry VII, and Sentry 21
  • Perform characterization of designs on tester and bench
  • Perform product engineering/production support/yield analysis

November 1994 to
April 1997

Focus Semiconductor Lower Gwynedd, PA

Vice President of Engineering

Fabless Semiconductor Company; self-funded startup by eleven former ICS employees, eventually purchased by AMI in 1997.

  • same technical items as above
  • directly involved (lead or assist) in over 20 mixed-signal and digital ASIC developments
  • managed Windows NT server/network/workstations
  • developed tools and methodologies for ViewLogic Workview environment and Hercules layout verification

May 1986 to
November 1994

Integrated Circuit Systems Valley Forge, PA
Senior Design Engineer, Manager Audio IC Development
Was with the company during growth from a 15-person design center to publicly traded fabless semiconductor company.

  • over 20 mixed signal and digital ASIC developments (lead or assist)
  • over 10 mixed-signal and digital standard product developments (PC Multimedia and NI-CAD Battery Chargers)
  • designed in processes from AMI, NCR, VLSI Tech, Micrel, MOS Technologies (Commodore), Winbond
  • performed design, verification, product definition, spec. development, test programming, characterization, product engineering, customer support, and COMDEX booth duty
  • transistor-level design of full custom digital and standard cell based circuits, including dynamic logic, Pine DSP integration, ISA bus peripherals, 68000 family glue logic, 6502-based chips, audio CODECS, wavetable synthesizers, analog audio mixers
  • designed ASICs for many market segments (telephony, toys, consumer electronics, security, sensors, medical, etc.)
  • used Daisy, Mentor, VAX, Sun workstations, and PCs.
  • used VLSI Technology Tools (later Compass), Cadence tools, Dracula, SPICE, Verilog

August 1982 to
May 1986

RCA Solid State Division Somerville, NJ
Senior Member Technical Staff

  • performed test program development, design verification, characterization, debug, and product engineering on standard product and full custom integrated circuits
  • transferred devices into production, wrote manufacturing specs, supported on-shore and off-shore manufacturing
  • performed failure analysis, design debug, yield enhancement
  • products supported included 1802 family microprocessors and peripherals, 6805 family microcontrollers and peripherals, static RAMs, ROMs, custom mixed signal chips, standard cell designs
  • used Fairchild/Schlumberger Sentry VII, Sentry 20, Sentry 21, Sentinel, Series 10 digital testers and Teradyne J387A memory testers for development and characterization

June 1981 to
August 1982

Solid State Scientific, Hi-Rel Div. Montgomeryville, PA
Test Engineer

  • performed test program development and characterization of custom military integrated circuits
  • technologies included NMOS, PMOS, and both metal-gate and silicon gate CMOS
  • used Sentry VII tester and VAX
  • held "secret" security clearance

 

Appendix:

Focus Semiconductor / AMI TGP Standard Products

Chip

Lead/Assist

  

FS61429

lead

Intel Server Motherboard Clock

FS6232

lead

Intel platform Dual PLL Motherboard Clock

FS6234

lead

Intel platform Dual PLL Motherboard Clock

FS6235

lead

Intel platform Dual PLL Motherboard Clock

FS6253

lead

Intel platform Dual PLL Motherboard Clock

FS6254

lead

Intel platform Dual PLL Motherboard Clock for Vendor "C"

FS6258

lead

Intel platform Dual PLL Motherboard Clock for mobile apps.

FS6259

lead

Intel platform Dual PLL Motherboard Clock for Vendor "R"

FS7140 / FS7145

lead

Programmable single-PLL clocks with output sync

Focus Semiconductor / AMI TGP ASICS

Chip

Lead/Assist

Description

FS1003

lead

Type 1 Caller ID, 99 call

FS1004

lead

Utility Power Meter

FS1006

assist

Speedometer

FS1007

assist

Tachometer

FS1012

lead

Touch Screen Controller (mixed signal)

FS1020

lead

Touch Screen Controller (digital legacy cost reduce)

FS1023

lead

Type II Caller ID

FS1024

lead

Alarm System Zone Controller

FS1027

lead

Type 1 Caller ID, 99 call (retool/changes)

FS1029

lead

Type II Caller ID with expansion bus

FS1030

lead

Type 1 Caller ID, 25 call

FS1031

assist

Alarm chip

FS1032

lead

Battery Charger

FS1033

lead

Type II Caller ID (large pads)

FS1035

lead

Cordless Phone base with POTS mode and caller ID

FS1036

lead

Type II Caller ID with expansion bus (retool/fab port/changes)

FS1040

lead

Type I Caller ID (cost-reduced)

FS1041

lead

Type II Caller ID (cost reduced)

FS1042

assist

Battery Charger

FS1044

lead

Type II Caller ID (1/2 of two-chip set)

FS1045

lead

Type II Caller ID Switched-cap filters (1/2 of two-chip set)

Integrated Circuit Systems Standard Products

Chip

Lead/Assist

Description

ICS1399

lead

DOC-II 25 Voice Wavetable Synthesizer (used in ASC "Media Master" sound card)

ICS2001

lead

Parallel-port sound device (used in "Disney Sound Source")

ICS2002

lead

ISA bus business-audio CODEC (used on Zeos motherboards)

ICS2101

lead

5 Channel Digitally Controlled Analog Audio Mixer

ICS2102

lead

"Sound Blaster" compatible audio mixer (used in various MediaVision sound cards)

ICS2008

assist

SMPTE-MIDI Peripheral Interface

ICS2010

assist

SMPTE-MIDI Integrated Controller

ICS2115

lead

"WaveFront" 32-voice wavetable synthesizer (used in Turtle Beach "Maui" sound card and other Turtle Beach products)

ICS2116

lead

"Wavefront" system interface (used in Turtle Beach "Maui" and others)

ICS1700

lead

Integrated NI-Cd Battery Charger

ICS1702

lead

Integrated NI-Cd Battery Charger

ICS1720

lead

Integrated NI-Mh Battery Charger