Fawad Ahmad

Applications And Validation Engineer (senior Lead) at Rapid Silicon

Fawad Ahmad has a diverse range of work experience in various engineering roles. Fawad is currently a Soft IP Engineer (Senior Lead) at Rapid Silicon, where they are responsible for the development and implementation of I2C Master and UART16550 IPs. Fawad also led the evaluation board effort for Rapid Silicon's test chip Genesis and worked on RTL development for integration of Melexis MLX90640 thermal sensor with FPGAs.

Prior to their current role, Fawad worked as an Application Engineer (Team Lead) at Lampró Méllon. In this position, they conducted extensive market competitor analysis for low-end FPGAs and developed the Market Requirements Document (MRD) for low-end FPGAs. Fawad also conducted research on the Device Logic Capacity (DLC) of LUT-4 and LUT-6 FPGAs.

Fawad gained valuable experience at Infineon Technologies, where they held multiple roles. As an Intern and Working Student in the Application Engineering department, they worked on projects related to angle sensors and microcontroller systems. Fawad also completed their Master's thesis on the design of a low-power Steering Wheel Angle Tracker.

Additionally, Fawad worked as a Scientific Research Assistant at the Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Betriebswissenschaften and TUM fml – future.meets.logistics. In these roles, they focused on the design of motion-monitoring systems using LiDAR sensors, wireless connection establishment, and development of digital storage systems.

Overall, Fawad Ahmad has demonstrated expertise in IP engineering, FPGA analysis, microcontroller systems, and research in various engineering domains.

Fawad Ahmad pursued a Master's degree in Power Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, from 2016 to 2019. Previously, they obtained a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), between 2012 and 2016.

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Timeline

  • Applications And Validation Engineer (senior Lead)

    February 1, 2023 - present

  • Soft IP Engineer (Senior Lead)

    October, 2022

  • Application Engineer (Team Lead)

    June, 2021