Diego Joaquín Hernando

Experience

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  IVECO

  Apr 2010 - Oct 2010

  Intern

  Staff assistant:- Training in thermodynamics, transmission, pneumatics and electricity of IVECO trucks.- Maintenance of IVECO trucks.

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  Research Center in Informatics for Engineering CIII - UTN FRC

  Mar 2015 - Dec 2018

  Research fellow

  Development of unmanned aerial vehicles:- Hardware:Vehicle control board design in KiCad/Altium.Component selection and BOM.Manufacturing and welding of the vehicle control board.Vehicle structure design in AutoCad and FreeCad.Assembly of the structure of the vehicles.- Software:Development in C language of the vehicle control firmware.Telemetry data analysis and processing.

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  Fundación Fulgor

  Dec 2018 - Nov 2021

  Research and master's fellow

  The Fulgor Foundation seeks to create growth opportunities for as many members of Argentine society as possible. The main instrument for the creation of opportunities is education, together with the search for the insertion of its beneficiaries in the productive process.Tasks Performed:1) Research and master's degree study in the design of mixed-signal integrated circuits. Specialization in PLL design. Courses taken in relation to postgraduate studies: 1. Analog Design of Integrated Circuits - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. 2. Advanced Digital Design - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. 3. Switched Converters - Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. 4. Digital Integrated Circuits Design in CMOS Technology - Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. 5. Modeling and Operation of the MOS Transistor - Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina. 6. Discrete-Time Signal Processing - Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.2) Modeling of coherent optical communications systems in MATLAB/Python.3) Design of analog integrated circuits (OpAmps, PLLs, ADCs, etc.) in different technologies (500nm, 130nm), using different tools such as Cadence, Synopsys, Electric, Xschem, Magic, etc. 4) Simulation of the designed circuits using SPICE (LTSPICE and/or NGSPICE) together with the aforementioned tools.5) Layout of the realized designs. Floorplaning, routing, DRC and LVS using Cadence, Synopsys, Electric and Magic tools.6) Participation in the first run of the Google/Efabless/Skywater open IC design program. Development at circuit, simulation and layout level. https://github.com/diegohernando/caravel_fulgor_opamp7) Participation in the Argentine School of Micro-nanoelectronics, Technology & Applications (EAMTA) 2019, 2020 and 2021. Assistance in the practical classes of the analog design track and in the support of the tools used. Show less

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  Inphi Argentina

  May 2020 - Apr 2021

  Systems Engineer Intern

  Inphi Argentina (ClariPhy Argentina S.A.) is a company that contributes to the growth and technological development of Argentina by carrying out state-of-the-art technological projects and promoting the technical, professional and human growth of its work team. Tasks Performed: - Modeling of chips for fiber optic systems. - Modeling of analog and mixed-signal blocks in C/C++ for coherent optical communications systems. - Development of simulation scripts in Python for verification, calibration and compensation of impairments in the modeled blocks. - GitLab repository management. Show less

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  Analog Devices

  Nov 2021 - now

  - Participation in the definition of new IC products.- Feasibility study of new IC designs and architectures.- System level design of buck controllers voltage mode control loop using Simplis and Mathcad.- Modelling of analog, digital and mixed-signal blocks using analog components and/or hardware description languages (veriloga).- Circuit design of different blocks used in the control loop of buck converters (such as Error Amplifiers, Comparators, Buffers and Current Mirrrors) with different specifications and low power mode in 90nm technology. Corners and post-layout simulations.- Top level AMS simulations and verification.- Silicon verification and characterization using data adquisiton system to perform a semi-automated test. Use of previous developed python libraries and scripts.Side activities:- Involved in the development of a Silicon Evaluation Platform using Raspberry Pi computers to provide remote access to bench automation platforms and lab instruments. Use Python within Jupyter Notebook to create scripts and reports, leveraging Numpy, Pandas and Matplotlib for data analysis and visualization.- In charge of keeping updated the python libraries and scripts used to control the laboratory instruments.- Participation in ETC2023 (European Technical Conference) Commitee, helping to organize demos stands. Show less Worked on different IC design proyects (1-wire devices and USB chargers):- Top level AMS test mode simulation of ICs over corners and EC table verification.- Top level AMS verification of IC designs and report analysis.- Block level design characterization and analysis.Worked on the silicon validation, characterization and correlation of the developed ICs:- Post tapeout test of the developed ICs in the laboratory.- Development of a python class to control all the instruments in the laboratroty in a remote way.- Development of python scritps to perform all the test on an IC design in an automated way. The scripts control the DUT and the instruments on the lab.Side activities:- Co-developed a python based gm/ID GUI that uses databases generated with MATLAB scripts. The MATALB scripts run scpectre simulations to charaterize devices of a PDK. The GUI allows to plot different metrics of the characterized devices (Gain vs gm/ID, ft vs gm/ID, ID/W vs gm/ID, etc.).- Participation in ETC2022 (European Technical Conference) Commitee, helping to organize demos stands. Show less

  • Analog Desing Engineer

    Jun 2023 - now

  • Junior Designer

    Nov 2021 - Sept 2023