Somayeh Golabian

Hardware engineer, chip to system.

High-speed electronics / Industrial vision / EMC & signal integrity

I develop hardware for industrial imaging — camera boards, the interfaces around them, and the redesigns that follow when a compliance test does not pass. On those boards the whole chain is mine: architecture, sensor selection, schematic, layout, bring-up, measurement, EMC and production support.

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How the work runs
  1. Requirements
  2. Architecture
  3. Component & sensor selection
  4. Schematic
  5. PCB layout
  6. Simulation
  7. Bring-up
  8. Measurement
  9. EMC
  10. Validation
  11. Documentation
  12. Production support

On camera and interface boards, each of these stages is mine — including the layout itself, rather than a layout handed to someone else.

01 / Projects
When a board fails certificationAn industrial electronics product failed EMC testing at an external laboratory — and the first redesign failed too.Altium DesignerOwning a camera board end to endWhat it means to carry a board from sensor selection through layout, bring-up and EMC to production support.Altium Designer · LTSpice
02 / Expertise

Professional practice — Done repeatedly, in shipped industrial hardware.

High-speed & mixed-signalControlled impedance, differential signalling, stack-up, termination and interconnect.
Signal & power integrityPower distribution architecture, sequencing, startup behaviour, inrush and pre-bias.
EMC / EMIDesigned in from architecture and layout, not tested at the end.
Camera & sensor electronicsSensor interfaces, high-speed image data paths, triggering and synchronisation.
Bring-up & validationMeasurement-driven debugging, root-cause analysis, product verification.
Design for manufacturingProduction constraints, component availability, documentation, lifecycle workflows.
Applied in project workLTSpice · CST Studio · Cadence Virtuoso · IC/MMIC · FPGA-connected hardware · Vivado
Trained, not practisedVHDL · C++ · Agile PLM
Currently learningPython · Machine learning · Computer vision · Edge AI · Robotics
How depth is described here
03 / Direction

Where this is heading

Imaging and sensing sit directly next to computer vision, edge inference and robotics. I am working toward the architecture of intelligent physical systems from the hardware side — the part that has to exist before any of it runs.

Stated as direction. Not as professional experience.

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Open to conversations about advanced hardware, system architecture, industrial vision and robotics electronics.

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