1. KEYANG FU
keyangfu@usc.edu, (213)-806-0232, 645 W 23rd St, Apt 2, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA
SUMMARY
To obtain a full time position working as a Hardware Engineer in summer 2016
Master student in Electrical Engineering, graduating in May, specializing in RTL coding (Verilog & VHDL), ASIC
design, Synopsys tools, and Cadence Virtuoso, and skilled in circuit diagnosis using C/C++/Perl.
EDUCATION
University of Southern California 08/14 - 05/16
 Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (VLSI), School of Viterbi GPA3.5
Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, CHINA 08/10 - 07/14
 Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic and Information Engineering GPA3.5
EXPERIENCE
USC Project: DDR3 Memory Controller Design 9/15-12/15
 Designed a memory controller using Verilog. It handles various instructions from a processor at 625 MHz.
 Synthesized the controller with Synopsys tools ensuring no violation.
 Post-synthesized to verify functions.
USC Project: Out-of-Order Processor Design based on Tomasulo Algorithm 5/15-8/15
 Designed ROB, CFC, Dispatch Unit, BPB, Issue Unit, and FRL, etc. using VHDL.
 Emulated on FPGA, sent and verified data packages using UART.
USC Project: Full Custom General Purpose Multi-Cycle CPU Design & Layout 1/15-5/15
 Designed a 512-bit SRAM, a 16-bit ALU, and a multi-port instruction memory.
 Designed a row decoder, a pre-charge circuit, a write/read circuit, a 6T SRAM cell, and a sense-amplifier.
 Sized transistors using Hspice, explored the 6T-SRAM sizing & sense-amplifier, reached the minimum
write/read access time, ensured no setup/hold time violation in specific period, got noise margin of bit line.
 Simulated & verified function automatically using Perl: generated non-stalling test-vectors & calculated results
by Perl, simulated schematic & layout by Virtuoso, captured write-back data in simulation result exported from
Virtuoso, verified the captured data with the computed data by Perl.
USC Project: Testing Tool of Circuit Defects Design 10/15-12/15
 Designed a tool for circuit defects diagnosis using C-language.
 Generated test vectors as ATPG using D-algorithm & PODEM, and designed parallel/deductive simulators.
 Detected all the defects.
USC Project: Typical Microprocessor Enhancement 1/15-5/15
 Explored a baseline processor by analyzing its bottlenecks, and enhanced its speed by 58.2%.
 Used SimpleScalar simulator, Cacti simulator and Real Estate Estimator to archive highest MIPS.
 Simulated and recorded automatically using Perl.
RELATED COURSE
EE457 Computer Systems Organization EE477 VLSI Circuit design
EE557 Computer Systems Architecture EE577a&b VLSI System design
EE658 Diagnosis and Design of Reliable Digital Systems CSCI570 Algorithms
EE560 Digital System Design Tools & Techniques
SKILL
Languages: C/C++, MATLAB, Assembly language, VHDL, Verilog HDL, Perl
Software: Altium Designer, Altera Quartus II, Modelsim, Cadence Virtuoso, Simvision, Xilinx ISE designer