Fábio Marques Barroso

Silicon IP Validation & Verification Manager | SERDES | High Performance Compute

Sintra, Lisbon, Portugal

About

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞? I work at Synopsys as a Silicon Validation and Verification Manager. I lead a team of engineers to perform post-silicon testing and develop characterization and validation methods for high-speed SERDES (serializer & deserializer) circuits up to 128Gbps, with great focus in PAM4 signaling and chip-to-chip architectures. We also support customer silicon bring-up, IP integration and product demonstration activities. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? As an electronics engineering student, I worked as an intern in D-Orbit, an Aerospace start-up, as an Embedded Software Developer. Also, at IST (University of Lisbon), I was a Mentor in Summer activities to teach children and teenagers the basics of electronics and programming in a fun and uncomplicated way. After that, I took the role of Hardware Engineer at Visteon for about three years. I worked with several manufactures, including both luxury and large production projects. My responsibilities included hardware debug/design/improvement, cost reduction for electronic bill of materials, hardware-software integration and design validation testing. I also lead teams of other electronics engineers and technicians and created PCB analysis guidelines to debug several hardware products. As a firm supporter of continuous improvement, I have worked in several 6-Sigma projects and obtained a green belt certification. I also hold a Post Graduation in Project Management from ISEG (Executive Education).

Experience

  • Synopsys Inc (Full-time · 7 yrs 10 mos)
    • Validation/Verification Manager
      May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

    • Validation/Verification Senior Supervisor
      Feb 2023 - May 2026 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    • Staff Validation/Verification Engineer
      Dec 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Electronics Design Engineer at Visteon Corporation
    Mar 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    Product design and testing for automotive electronics applications such as: • Infotainment Clusters (Porsche, Volkswagen) • Heads-Up Displays (Groupe PSA) • Dashboard Displays (Renault)

  • Research Fellow at Instituto de Telecomunicações
    Dec 2014 - Oct 2015 · 11 mos

    Development and integration of 1D and 2D magnetoresistive eddy current testing array probes.

  • Activities Coordinator @ Verão na UL at Instituto Superior Técnico
    Jul 2015 - Jul 2015 · 1 mo

    Co-responsible for "Smart House" project, where students built a model automated house with Bluetooth connection, lights, sensors, stepper motors and fans, which could be controlled via an Android App

  • Embedded Software Developer (Intern) at D-Orbit
    Jul 2014 - Aug 2014 · 2 mos

    • Solutions for Embedded Systems Software design (C/C++) for ARM processors. • Setup and configuration of various tools to program the development boards used.