From: gt4302c@prism.gatech.EDU (THOMSEN)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: Analog Circuit Designer (Ph.D.) seeks entry-level position
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:47:19 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


Axel Thomsen
395 Richards St. NW 
Atlanta, GA 30318
Phone 	404-872-5491 (home)
	404-853-9920 (office)
FAX	404-853-9410
email	thomsen@magnolia.gatech.edu

Capabilities:
 Design, layout, and testing of analog and digital CMOS circuits
 EEPROM design, characterization, application, and programming
 EEPROM fabrication at MOSIS
 Automated testing with IEEE 488, testing with probe station 
 Proficiency in PASCAL, FORTRAN and SPICE3, PSPICE, MAGIC software
 Experience on SUN and DEC unix-workstations, IBM-PC, apple macintosh

Education:
9/88-10/92	Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute
		of Technology, Atlanta
		Thesis: High Speed High Accuracy Signal Processing With 
		Parallel Analog Circuits
		Research in application of EEPROMs for trimming of analog 
		integrated circuits 
		Coursework in electronic science, electronic design, and
		optics, GPA 4.0
9/84-9/88	Student in Electrical Engineering at Technische Universitaet
		Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany
		Coursework and research in microelectronics, GPA 1.1 
		(1=very good, 5=failed)

Experience:
		Reviewer for IEEE Electron Device Letters
since 6/89	Research Assistant at School of Electrical Engineering, 
		Georgia Tech
		Design, implementation, and test of 3 analog signal 
		processing circuits and a reference current source
		Supervisor for four students in the Undergraduate Research 
		Opportunity Program 
9/88-6/89	Teaching Assistant at School of Electrical Engineering, 
		Georgia Tech
		Teacher for digital hardware laboratory class, grader for 
		undergraduate electronics class
9/87-12/87	Research Assistant at Institut fuer
		Allgemeine Elektrotechnik, TUBS
		Installation of a circuit simulation program
4/86-12/87	Teaching Assistant at Institut fuer Grundlagen der 
		Elektrotechnik und Messtechnik, TUBS
		Teacher for introductory and measurement laboratory class
since 6/90	Kayaking trip-leader and teacher for Outdoor Recreation 
		Georgia Tech

Publications:
A. Thomsen, M. A. Brooke, "A programmable piecewise linear large signal CMOS
 amplifier," to be published in IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 1992
A. Thomsen, M. A. Brooke, "A temperature stable current reference source 
 with programmable output," to be published in Proc. of Midwest Symp. on 
 Circ. and Syst., Washington DC, August 1992
A. Thomsen, M. A. Brooke, "A low cost application-specific neural network 
 implementation with floating gate weights," Proc. of Int. Joint Conf. on 
 Neural Networks, vol. II, pp. 565-570, Baltimore, June 1992
A. Thomsen, M. A. Brooke, "A floating-gate MOSFET with tunneling injector 
 fabricated using a standard double-polysilicon CMOS process, " IEEE 
 Electron Device Letters, vol. EDL-12, no. 3, pp. 111-113, March 1991
A. Thomsen, M. A. Brooke, "A new structure for an analog divider," Proc. 
 of Int. Symp. on Circ.and Syst., vol. 3, pp. 1721-1723, New Orleans, May 
 1990
A. Thomsen, M. A. Brooke, "An analog divider based on a perceptron neural
 network," Proc. of Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks, vol. II, pp. 
 441-444, Washington DC, Jan. 1990
submitted, in review:
A. Thomsen, M. A. Brooke, "A floating gate CMOS signal conditioning 
 circuit for nonlinearity corrrection," submitted to Analog Integrated 
 Circuits and Signal Processing, Jan. 1992

Award: Colonel Cleaver Award for outstanding graduate student in electrical
 engineering at Georgia Tech, 1989

Research Interests:
 Precision analog circuit design with poorly characterized devices	
 Application of EEPROMs in analog circuits
 Neural network implementations and applications			
 On-chip learning of neural networks
 On-chip trimming of analog circuits

Citizenship: German, currently on F1 student visa
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AXEL THOMSEN
Georgia Institute of Technology, POBox 34302, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Internet: gt4302c@prism.gatech.edu