Lane Brooks Resume

Education - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1999 B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. GPA 4.9/5.0
2000 M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Thesis: Amplitude and Frequency Demodulation Controller for MEMS Accelerometer		 GPA 5.0/5.0
2008 Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Thesis: Design Techniques for Pipelined ADCs in Scaled CMOS Technologies		 GPA 5.0/5.0

Work History

2005- BrooksEE: Contract hardware and software design services.
  • IC Design: Custom IC design including analog circuit design, layo ut, verification, digital RTL development, simulation, synthesis, place and rout e, DFT, and chip finishing tasks.
  • Hardware Design: PCB, FPGA, RTL (verilog and VHDL), simulation, and firmware design. Specialize in data acqusition systems.
  • Software Development: Linux kernel drivers, firmware for embedded pr ocessors, test frameworks, signal processing, cross-platform GUI applications, a nd web design.
Highland, UT
2000-2005 SMaL Camera Technologies: Senior IC Design Engineer

Led mixed-signal IC design for digital camera system. Architectural specification, verilog implementation, logic synthesis, place and route, timing verification, and DFT for still camera ASICs and integrated digital processing cores on imagers. Custom IC design including ADCs, DACs, regulators, transceivers, memory, and IOs. Firmware development for still camera models. Specialized in power efficient and highly integrated systems.

 Cambridge, MA
2000 MIT: Teaching Assistant

Head TA for 6.003 Signals and Systems course.

 Cambridge, MA
1997-2000 Draper Laboratories: Intern and Draper Fellow

Designed readout and controller logic for a vibratory MEMS accelerometers. Involved digital signal processing (filtering, demodulation, noise modeling) and feedback control in custom logic.

Cambridge, MA
1999 Prof. Charles Sodini of MIT : Undergraduate Researcher

Implemented PC-based data acquisition system in Linux to display real-time, high frame rate data from CMOS imagers.

Cambridge, MA
1997-1998 Prof. Jesus del Alamo of MIT: Undergraduate Researcher

Built web interface to an HP4155 Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer . Involved GP-IB, Java, and web development.

Cambridge, MA

Selected Patents (See complete list)

Aug 2002 Adaptive Sensitivity Control, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, for a Digital Imager Pending
May 2004 Efficient digital method of and system for determining the instantaneous phase and amplitude of a vibratory accelerometer and other sensors Pending
July 2004 In-stream Lossless Compression of Digital Image Sensor Data Pending

Selected Publications (See complete list)

Jun 2004 Hardware Efficient Lossless Image Compression Engine ICASSP
Feb 2006 A 3MPixel Low-Noise Flexible Architecture CMOS Image Sensor ISSCC
Dec 2007 A Zero-Crossing Based 200MS/s 8b Pipelined ADC JSSC
Nov 2008 Background Calibration of Pipelined ADCs Via Decision Boundary Gap Estimation. TCAS-I
Dec 2009 A Fully Differential 12b, 50MS/s Zero-Crossing Based Pipelined ADC JSSC

References and Sample Work

Available upon request.