Michael Heimlich
Department of Engineering
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Michael Heimlich began in electronics and software in 1985 with Watkins-Johnson working in space-qualified RF and microwave mixers and then with Pacific Monolithics designing GaAs MMIC LNAs, up- and down-converters. After graduate studies at Stanford and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in microwave photonic contactless measurements for semiconductor defect recognition, he returned to Pacific Monolithics and then M/A-COM to focus on GaAs device and MMIC modelling, IC statistical design techniques, and microwave design flows. Dr. Heimlich left M/A-COM in 1995 to start and serve as Chief Technology Officer for VistaCAD, an electronic design automation (EDA) consulting company and SmartLynx, an EDA interoperability company. He joined AWR Corp. in 2001 where he continued work in EDA interoperability, design flow, and passive device modelling. In 2009, Dr. Heimlich received a CORE appointment to Macquarie University in wireless communications. He is the inaugural recipient of the David Skellern Electronics Research Grant. Associate Professor Heimlich received the BS (magna cum laude), ME, and PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has had research internships at Eastman Kodak (Rochester, NY, USA), IBM Research (Yorktown Heights, NY, USA), and M/A-COM (Lowell, MA, USA). Dr. Heimlich is a member of the IEEE and has served on the technical program committee for IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC). He has published in a variety of areas including semiconductor defect recognition, antenna design, microwave photonics, and design flow and has been an invited speaker. He holds a patent in software interoperability and in reconfigurable electromagnetic bandgap structures. Dr. Heimlich's current research interests include RF/microwave MMIC and RFIC modelling, design flow theory, adaptive and reconfigurable wireless circuits, UWB for medical body area networks (MBAN), millimetre-wave packaging and GHz signal integrity.
Research Interest
• Leadership • Teams • Employee attitudes and performance
Publications
-
Heimlich M. Get on the same nonlinear page. IEEE Microwave Magazine. 2011 Apr;12(2):32-7.
-
Mahon SJ, Dadello A, Vun P, Tarazi J, Young AC, Heimlich MC, Harvey JT, Parker AE. LNA design based on an extracted single gate finger model. InCompound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS), 2010 IEEE 2010 Oct 3 (pp. 1-4). IEEE.
-
Heimlich MC, Hilaire KR, inventors; Smartlynx, Inc., assignee. Hierarchical adaptive state machine for emulating and augmenting software. United States patent US 5,903,886. 1999 May 11.
