About
I’m Panagiotis Dimtsoudis, Panos to most people, an electrical engineering student at the University of Pennsylvania. I’m in Penn’s submatriculation program, earning the B.S.E. and the M.S.E. together.
My focus is transistor-level IC design and custom layout, plus the hardware around it: analog boards, embedded firmware, and device measurement.
I grew up in northeastern Greece, repairing equipment with my grandfather. That is where the hardware started.
What I work on
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Digital IC design and VLSI
Transistor-level design in Cadence Virtuoso: sizing from hand analysis and logical effort, custom layout that passes DRC and LVS, Quantus extraction, and post-layout simulation in Spectre. Most recently a 6T SRAM bitcell, a 16 × 4 macro, and the pipelined MAC datapath built around them.
SRAM MAC accelerator → -
Analog and PCB hardware
Schematic capture and board layout in Altium, simulation in LTspice, then assembly and bench work. I route the board, solder it, and debug it stage by stage on a scope: oscillators, instrumentation front ends, filters, and audio circuits.
Metal detector PCB → -
Device characterization
Research in Penn’s Device Research and Engineering Laboratory, measuring ferroelectric junctions from 14 to 400 K on cryogenic and high-temperature probe stations: J–V, C–V, PUND, breakdown and endurance. I write the measurement sequences, the Python that extracts device parameters from the exports, and the 3D models of the device stack.
AlScN ferroelectric junctions →
Tools and skills
| Area | Tools and methods |
|---|---|
| IC design | |
| Hardware | |
| Test and characterization | |
| Embedded | |
| Programming | |
| Mechanical |
Details
- Education
- B.S.E. and M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, expected May 2028
- Current roles
- Undergraduate Research Assistant, Device Research and Engineering Laboratory; Teaching Assistant, ESE 2180
- Relevant coursework
- ESE 5700 Digital Integrated Circuits and VLSI Fundamentals · ESE 3190 Fundamentals of Solid-State Circuits · ESE 3500 Embedded Systems Microlaboratory · ESE 2180 Electronic, Photonic, and Electromechanical Devices · ESE 2150 · CIS 1200
- Languages
- Greek, English, German, Japanese
- Based in
- Philadelphia, PA