Farzad Nekoogar

FARZAD NEKOOGAR is the author of Digital Control Using Digital Signal Processing and Timing Verification of Application-Specific Integrated Circuits, both from Prentice Hall PTR. He has over 15 years of experience in design and verification of ASICs (front-end and back-end), SOCs, FPGAs, boards, and systems. He has lectured at the University of California on signal processing, chip design, and theoretical physics.

FARANAK NEKOOGAR has many years of experience verifying ASICs and SOCs. She is currently researching the development of low-power algorithms for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) communications at the University of California at Davis in the Department of Applied Science.

Faranak Nekoogar

Faranak Nekoogar, Ph.D., is coauthor of From ASICs to SOCs: A Practical Approach, published by Prentice Hall (2003). She has worked for many years researching UWB topics in the Department of Applied Science at University of California, Davis. Faranak has published several patent applications and technical papers in the following areas of UWB research: multiple-access techniques, channel estimation, synchronization, and secure wireless sensor networks using UWB radios. She currently conducts research on UWB-RFIDs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She also has several years of industry experience in functional and timing verification of application-specific integrated circuits and systems-on-a-chip.