Steven Nguyen

Principal Test Engineer at Renesas

Tempe, Arizona, United States

About

I have been working in test development for 20+ years. I have create test programs for mixed signal, High speed, and a variety of digital and analog, PMIC devices on the ATE. I have been focused on developing creative ways to reduce test cost and increase test coverage for IC's. I have been working on H/W and S/W development for mixed signal and High speed testing solution. I have been characterize new Mixed Signal cells such as, VDACs, DACs ADCs, CODECs,High Speed cells and IP such as, GigaBlaze, High-Speed Transceiver, High-Speed SERDES, PLL, USB1.1, USB2.0 (UTMI, UTMI+, and OTG), Microcontroller, DC to DC converter, PGAs, etc. Specialties: Design; debug HW and SW for Mixed-Signal platform tester. Strong skill in developing, debugging on ATE testers (CredenceLT1101, DUO, and Quartet). Teradyne J750, Skill in using debug tool for development such as, scopes, logic analyzer, function generator, arbitrary waveform generator (AWG), spectrum analyzer, HP 81200 data generator/nanalyzer, TEK (TDS 784C), Mixed-signal Oscilloscope, Audio Precision 2322, TMU (Wavecrest DTS 2070C). Skill in C, C++ programming, Perl.

Experience

  • Principal Test Engineer at Renesas Electronics
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Staff MTS Test Dev at Maxim Integrated
    Jun 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

  • Principal Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman
    May 2019 - Present · 7 yrs 3 mos

  • Senior Test Engineer at NXP Semiconductors
    Jul 2015 - Mar 2019 · 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Principal Test Engineer at Microchip Technology
    Sep 2009 - Jul 2015 · 5 yrs 11 mos