BIOGRAPHY
Dr Malcolm H. Smith has more than 27 years of post-PhD industrial experience in a wide range of areas, including more than 3 years at Matsushita (renamed Panasonic) in Japan designing analogue circuits for sensors, more than 22 years in cellular and other radio experience in the US at Bell Labs, Intel, Amalfi Semiconductor and RFMD, and more than 6 years as an independent consultant working worldwide for clients including MediaTek, HiSilicon (Huawei) and Google. Malcolm has over 40 patents issued for circuit, system and architecture inventions.
At AnalogueSmith, Malcolm also consults in following fields of RFIC, analogue, mix-signal circuit design, system and architectural design of mixed-signal RFICs, CMOS PA, transceiver system, architecture, and circuit design, and modelling (device, circuit, system, and architecture).
PORTFOLIO
Inventor of world's first, viable CMOS PA for cellular systems (US patent US8274336), and world's first switchless RF transmit module for GSM (US patent US8843083)
Expertise Provided
- Electronics - Product Design & Development
- High band GSM
- Greater than 32 dBm output power
- 40% PAE
- Output stage presented at Keysight seminars in Hanoi and Singapore
Expertise Provided
- Electronics - Product Design & Development
- Part of multi-band, multi-mode radio
- Mixer-first multi-phase design
- Unique analogue requirements
- New architecture ADC
Expertise Provided
- Electronics - Product Design & Development
- Part of front-end module in 1.8 ¼m SOI CMOS
- Fully integrated digital control, analogue bias including bandgap reference, matching, LNA and switch
- 2.5 dB NF in low band; 4 dB in high band
Expertise Provided
- Electronics - Product Design & Development
- Link budget calculation for 60 GHz radar system using commercial chips
- Test setup and experiment design
- PCB layout and design support
Expertise Provided
- Electronics - Product Design & Development