Sameer Shaikh

Background

About Sameer Shaikh

A Hardware Design Engineering professional with over 2 decades of hands-on experience primarily in High-Speed Digital Board Design and knowledge of RF design concepts in Telecom, Networking and Quantum Domains. Worked in multiple product-based startups and MNCs involved in the design of cutting-edge technologies. • Performance-driven professional with over 20 years of rich and extensive experience in the complete product life cycle of Hardware System Design from proposal of architecture, freezing requirements, Component selection, Architecture design, Schematic capture, Signal Integrity, Power Integrity, PCB Design, Board bring-up, System Testing/Debug, Mechanical and Thermal design and product Qualification. • Hands-on experience in designing the different types of complex high-speed Digital boards. • Responsible for ensuring High Quality Hardware Design of multiple 5G Wireless based Radio Units (RU/RH) for both Indoor and Outdoor Environments as per O-RAN standards. • Responsible for ensuring complete RF Analog and Digital Hardware Design of Single Photon Detector (SPD) System with the target of achieving 50% photon detection efficiency at 10ns detection dead time with Gating Frequency of 1GHz to be used in a Quantum Technology based QKD product. • While in Broadcom, skilled in designing multiple PCB Boards (max 24 layers) for validating and Characterizing Broadcom's XLR, XLS, XLP and Vulcan series of Multicore, Multithreaded Processor SoC family designed to address IP networking, VoIP, wireless LAN, 3G wireless, broadband, storage, routing and switching, security and telecommunication applications. • Experience in designing multi–Digital Signal Processors based products (using array of 20 DSP chipsets) for voice and data compression right from concept to successful field trials and final deployment. • Sound knowledge in the design of boards with FPGAs such as ALTERA’s Stratix-II and XILINX’s Spartan-II, Virtex-5 series and Zync Ultrascale (+RFSoC). Also used CPLDs such as those from Altera and Lattice (MachXO). • Designed boards using SoC processors such as NXP’s LX1046, NXP’s LS1234, Broadcom’s XLR/XLP/XLS series, Netlogic’s Knowledge Based Processor (KBP) and FREESCALE processors such as DSP563xx, MPC8247, MPC8260, MSC8144 and MPC8360. • Experience in Hardware design of interfaces such as DDR2/3/4, PCIE Gen 3/4, MII/RGMII/SGMII/XFI/XGMII, XAUI/XLAUI, Serial RapidIO, SATA, ICI, HyperTransport, Serial RocketIO, USB 2.0/3.0, SFP/SFP+/SFP25/QSP/QSP25, NOR/NAND Flash, SDHC/eMMC, RS232, RS485, SPI, I2C, TDM E1, SONET/SDH STM-1/4/16.