Silicon Valley, California, United States
Automotive, Power Management, Industrial & Communications, Computing and Consumer Products
• Instituted and expanded the original BMIC design team, spinning-off, guiding and supporting additional design teams.
• Supervised the more difficult and key BMIC products with small and large design, verification and layout teams, personally innovating critical blocks.
• These products operate up to 120 V, integrating robust hot-plug capability for connecting to series battery cells, incorporating cell balancing, redundant monitoring, and precise cell voltage measurements, along with daisy chain communications and automotive functional safety features (FuSa – ISO 26262).
• Engineered BMICs for power tools, UPS systems, e-bikes, and home appliances, delivering optimized power management solutions tailored to each application.
• Products include: ISL9208/16/17, ISL94208, ISL78600/601/610, ISL78700/714, ISL94203, ISL94212, ISL94216, RAA271700, RAA271716/14/12/20/22, RAA489210
• Oversaw product development and designed individual blocks for wide variety of power management products.
• Created voltage regulators, including low and high power LDOs, MOSFET drivers, bridge drivers, ORing FET controllers, buck-boost USB-C chargers, buck converters with and without integrated FETs and drivers, DC-DC auto/industrial controllers, multi-phase computing PMICs and controllers, capacitor dividers, and poly fuses.
• Products include: ISL90840/1/2/3, ISL96016, ISL88163, ISL89367, ISL89160/1/2/3, ISL80101/101A/121, ISL80103, ISL6146, HIP2103, HIP2104, ISL78302, ISL8505, ISL78229, ISL95905, ISL95530, ISL95855/57/59/28/29, ISL95865, RRB96800
