# Yao-Ching Liu   Ph.D.

> DDR/LPDDR micro architecture

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yaoching

Project management, ASIC design flow/methodologies, Low power design, Micro-architecture definition, RTL design optimization for gate count reduction. 
SOC includes embedded ARM Cortex M0/M4, Tensilica DSP processors with AHB/APB interfaces.

## Work Experience
### DDR  PHY Chip Architect @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2021 – Present | United States
LPDDR6, LPDDR5, DDR5 ASIC Developement

### Sr Principal ASIC design @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | United States

### Engineering Director/Technical Executive @ Nuvoton Technology Corporation
Jan 2004 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Design Sigma Delta Audio codec, Equalizer, ALC, SLIMbus, Soundwire, interpolation/decimation, sample rate conversion filters. Class-D amplifiers, ARM Cortex-M0 and M4 SOC, 8051+Bluetooth Baseband, Chipcoder, SLIC FXS, USB, DECT, Echo cancellation, FSK products. 
Implement Low power methodologies.
Design/Power Compiler, Formality, LEC, Primetime, nLint, Scan Insertion. Timing Closure.
Researches: Neural Networks, Machine Deep Learning, Fuzzy Logic control,

### Design Manager @ Fortemedia
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Cupertino ,CA
DSP, USB, Bluetooth, 8051 design

### Sr. MTS @ Pluris
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002
Design 35Gbits per port IP core router switching fabric.
High-speed multicast. 
Leaky-Bucket, resource management, priority scheduling.

### Project Manager @ Allayer
Jan 1998 – Jan 2000
10Mb/100Mb/1G Ethernet switches. 
10Gb x 2 ports + 1G x 10 ports L2 search engine.
MAC, VLAN, Trunking, multicast, scheduling, buffer management.

### Sr ASIC design engineer @ IDT
Jan 1996 – Jan 1998
ATM 155Mb/second ABR SAR with PCI, Utopia interfaces.


## Education
### PhD in ECE
University of Miami

### BS in Applied Mathematics
National Chiao Tung University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yaochingliu

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Last updated: 2026-04-13