Loay Khalaf

Background

About Loay Khalaf

20 years experience in the area of telecommunications and wireless system design Positions: Founder and System Architect/Lead for 802.15.4 2.4 GHz Baseband/RF Modem Director of Engineering for wireless startup Engineering team leader for RF cable modem group Skills: Wireless algorithms development for synchronization and detection, low complexity mathematical and implementation for floating and fixed point, for WCDMA, WLAN and WPAN RF impairment estimation, modeling, and correction for timing and frequency estimation and correction Baseband Modem architecture definition and micro architecture specification Digital circuit implementation of FEC codes Quantization, Fixed Point, and Sampling Frequency Analysis trade off for low complexity implementation Wireless Link Analysis, RF FE modeling Specialties: Architecture, design, and implementation for WLAN 802.11/15 and 802.16 WMAN standards. Hardware HDL design for high speed Datapath DSP digital systems. Error correction (FEC) algorithm and system design (viterbi decoders, Reed Solomon, BCH codes). Radio frequency design for cable TV and cable modem. RFIC circuit design for 802.15.4 System level design of WLAN, Cable modems, Digital and Fiber Loop Carriers RF Automated Testing Electromagnetic Compatibility certification Computational methods and modeling of electromagnetic devices.