Objective Seeking a Ph.D. research position in the field of Analog, RF, and mixed-signal IC design .
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
1996 July Primary school general certificate with 94%.
1998 August Secondary school general certificate with 90%.
September 2001 -July 2005 Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering with 87%, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem (www.alquds.edu )
Course work
Electric Circuits analysis and synthesis
Electronic devices measurements
Electronic Circuits analysis and synthesis
Power electronics
Digital signal processing
Digital image processing
Active and digital filter design
Microcontrollers, PSOC Programmable system on chip Electromagnetic theory
Analogue and digital communications principles
Digital systems analysis and design
Computer architecture and microprocessor design
Control theory
Power systems and electric machines
Nano-electronics
Graduation project wasDesign of a Low-Voltage 0.25um High-Gain Op-Amp to meet a 12-bit accuracy August, 2005, where I got 90%rate EXCELLENT (Supervisor Prof. Hussein Jaddu)
2006 -2007, Masters in Wireless systems with 85% cumulative average, Politecnico di Torino, Italy www.polito.it
Course work
Transmission over wireless channel
Telecommunication Networks
Wireless FR and microwave devices and technologies
Antenna for wireless communications
Coding for the wireless channel
Mobile networks
RF analog integrated circuits design for wireless systems Evolution of mobile networks
Cellular network design
Architectures and circuits for low power wireless systems
Analysis and Design of VLSI Analog-Digital Interface Integrated Circuits.
Advanced analog and Digital Integrated Circuits design.
Thesis Energy-Detection UWB Receiver, main block of interest was squaring circuit to be used in the energy estimation regime from 3-10GHz (Supervisor Prof. Maurizio Zamboni).
Other Masters Accomplished projects "Designing of Class A power amplifier with a center frequency of 10.5 GHz" ( term project for RF circuits , supervised by Prof. Marco Pirola)
2008 -expected 2011 March, PhD in Electrical engineering, Tokyo institute of technology www.titech.ac.jp
Thesis Low noise amplifier (LNA) is the key building block in the wireless receiver design where its RF performance dominates the overall receiver performance in terms of noise and linearity. The main target of my thesis is to realize a wide-band low noise amplifier (LNA) that will be adequate for implementing multi-standard/software-defined radios. I am investigating the usage of Shunt-Shunt feedback as a main topology to realize wide bandwidth with sufficient input matching, by adding a successive stage (s) ( feed forward ) to this topology an enhancement for the linearity (IIP2, IIP3), bandwidth and noise performance can be achieved .
Publications
M. Othman,S. Amakawa, N. Ishihara and K. Masu " Wide-band low noise amplifier with BW Expansion by Capacitive feed forward technique" Accepted to be presented at the IEEE Asian solid state circuits conference A-SSCC 2010, Beijing, China.
M. Othman, S. Amakawa, N. Ishihara and K. Masu " Wide-band, Highly linear low noise amplifier design in sub-micrometer CMOS technology ", presented at "PIERS" 2010 in Cambridge, USA.
M. Othman, S. Amakawa, N. Ishihara and K. Masu Low Noise Amplifier Exploiting Noise And 3rd Order Harmonic Distortion Cancellation ", LSI and Systems Workshop 2010.
M. Othman, S. Amakawa, N. Ishihara and K. Masu Wide Band, High Linear Low Noise Amplifier Design in Sub-micrometer CMOS Technology ", IEICE conference, Sendai 2010.
M. Othman, N. Ishihara and K. Masu " 4 mW, 1.5 dB noise figure and 19 dB gain TV tuner LNA in 90nm CMOS technology " in preparation.
M. Othman, S. Amakawa, N. Ishihara and K. Masu Wide Band Low Noise Amplifier Employing Capacitive Technique For Bandwidth Expansion ", Submitted to IEICE Trans. On Analog Circuit Techniques and Related Topics, 2011.
M. Othman, S. Amakawa, N. Ishihara and K. Masu " Wide-Band, High Linear Low Noise Amplifier Design in 0.18 um CMOS Technology " IEICE Electronics Express (ELEX), Vol.7, No.11, pp 759-764 .
Other design experiences
- OTA/ Op-amp
- PLL
- modulators
Research Interests
RF, mm-Wave, Broadband and Analog Integrated Circuits Design
VLSI (Analog, Digital, and Mixed Signal Circuits) Design
System-level and transistor-level design of advanced integrated wireless systems
Solid State Physics of Microelectronic and Nano-scale Devices
Skills
CAD tools
Circuit simulators ADS, HSPICE, HSPICERF, Spectre, SpectreRF, GoldenGate, Cadence and Virtuoso Layout
System level design MATLAB, Simulink, - toolbox, ADS and CppSim.
Symbolic analysis MATHMEATICA and MathCAD
Measurement tools
Spectrum analyzer, Noise figure and power meters.
Others
o Documentation Tools Xcircuit, Lyx, LaTeX and Adobe Illustrator.
o Office MS-Project, MS-Word, MS-PowerPoint.
EMPLOYMENT September 2005 - July2006
-Teacher and research assistant at Al-Quds University electronics labs.
- Maintenance of PLCs and Microcontrollers in several industrial establishments.
Honors
- 1998 I gained the prize of highest average in the secondary school of BeitSahour.
- 2005 I gained the teaching and research fellowship offered by Al-quds university for the highest ranked graduate.
- 2006 I gained TOPMED scholarship to study Masters at Politecnico di Torino.
- 2006 Japanese government international scholarship MONBUKAGAKUSHO for PhD funding.
Training courses
- MCSE Microsoft Certificate of Systems Engineer- by accredited Microsoft engineers trainers (80 training hours).
- Microcontroller training course (35-training hours), offered by Cachan university- France.
Languages
- ARABIC Native
-ENGLISH Fluent.
-JAPANESE Intermediate
Date of birth 30 March, 1980.
References
I. Professor Kazuya Masu
Department of electronics and applied physics
Tokyo institute of technology
4259-R2-17, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503 JAPAN
email masu.k.aa@m.titech.ac.jp
II. Professor Akira Matsuzawa
Department of Physical Electronics
Tokyo institute of technology
2-12-1 S3-27, Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8552 Japan
email matsu@ssc.pe.titech.ac.jp
III. Professor Noboru Ishihara
Department of electronics and applied physics
Tokyo institute of technology
4259-R2-17, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama, 226-8503 JAPAN
email masu.k.aa@m.titech.ac.jp
