About Me
My main professional goal is to put my background in electrical and computer engineering to good use in a fulfilling R&D career, which I am currently pursuing as an R&D S&E electronics engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. I have worked on projects ranging from low-level ASIC layouts to high-level machine-learning software, but my recent projects have focused on characterizing the effects of radiation on electronics. If you are interested in learning more about what I’ve worked on, my CV can be found here.
Research
Most of my current research involves studying the effects of radiation on microelectronics and electronic systems. I have mostly worked on radiation hardening at the circuit level, which regularly entails doing VLSI layout, circuit simulations, PCB design, test trips to particle accelerators and other types of radiation test facilities, and programming. My PhD work involved exploring arbitrary-waveform generators as tools for built-in self-test (BIST) and hardware-emulation purposes. This BIST capability has proven useful for a photocurrent measurement circuit that I helped design, and similar circuits could be useful in many other high-reliability applications. A couple of the papers I've worked on are highlighted below, but a more complete list of my publications can be found here.
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J. V. D'Amico et al. IEEE TNS, 2021 We examine single-event upset (SEU) responses of D flip-flop (FF) designs with different threshold-voltage options in a 7-nm bulk FinFET technology. |
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J. V. D'Amico et al. IEEE TNS, 2023 We analyze single-event upset (SEU) and single-event transient (SET) responses of digital logic in a planar 22nm fully-depleted conventional-well silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) technology under various test conditions. |