עופר אלוף

EDUCATION

M.Sc.Physics Dept, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

B.Sc. 1991, Electrical engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
Major/Minor Specialization : Electro optics & Circuit/Negative Differential Resistance circuits.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2011-present : Avnet Israel , Tel-Mond
RF/OPTO Field Application Engineer and TSM (Technical Sales
Manager), Microwave & Power Amplifiers designs review, RF Circuits and RF
Simulation, RFICs, Antennas, RF system chain analysis. Application Engineer for the
following areas : Analog parts and solutions, Power applications and solutions, wireless
parts and engineering solutions for RF embedded systems.

2009 - 2002 : Future Electronics, Israel.
RF/OPTO Field Application Engineer and TSM (Technical Sales Manager),
Microwave & Power Amplifiers designs review, RF Circuits and RF Simulation,
RFICs, Antennas, RF system chain analysis. Application Engineer for the
following areas : Analog parts and solutions, Power applications and solutions,
wireless parts and engineering solutions for RF embedded systems.

2000 - 2002 : National Semiconductor, Israel.
IAOC (Information Appliance On a Chip) Application Engineer for STB (Set Top
Box), Thin Client and WebPAD systems. The position included schematics review,
technical support for IAOC systems, writing application notes and PowerPoint
presentations for different collateral subjects.

1999 - 2000 : Arrow/Rapac, Israel.
Technical Support and Application Manager for marketing semiconductor
components, Micro controllers, USB Protocol, GSM, networks, WAN and LAN,
I^2C and CAN (Control Area Networks) products, for the Automotive industry.

1998 - 1999 : CML company, San Diego, California, USA
System Engineer on video systems, SG workstations, UNIX (Irix, which is the
OS for SG (Silicon Graphics) servers), and WN NT. Communication networks,
(TCP/IP, LAN WAN, ETHERNET), with various hardware that connected
through HUB and applications for the cable industry, and ISDN communication
with hardware components at the remote site.




LANGUAGES AND SKILLS

English: advanced (reading, writing, oral).
Computer languages: operating systems (e.g. Linux, Windows 7), programming (Basic, Pascal, C & C++, H-Spice & Spice), commercial (Matlab, ORCAD, Mathematica, Fluent)


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED PAPERS IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS

2. O.Aluf, "ZigBee entra en la batalla de las Communicaciones
inalambricas" ,electronica & Comunicaciones Magazine, Num. 183.

3. O.Aluf, "Intelligent Lighting Saves Power" ,Power systems Design
Europe, March 2006.

4. O. Aluf. "How opto-couplers operating as negative differential
resistance devices can be used to generate stable RF oscillation circuits",
Microwave Engineering Europe, September 2007.

REFEREED PAPERS IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
1. O.Aluf, "Changeable Negative Resistance Optronic Circuit" ,IEEE 17th
Convention of Electrical & Electronics engineers in Israel 1991.

2. O. Aluf "RFID TAGs COIL’s Dimensional Parameters Optimization
As Excitable Linear Bifurcation Systems", IEEE COMCAS2008
Microwaves, Communications, Antennas & Electronics Systems Conference,
May 2008.

3. O. Aluf “Active RFID TAGs System Analysis of Energy Consumption
As Excitable Linear Bifurcation System” , IEEE COMCAS2009
Microwaves, Communications, Antennas & Electronics Systems
Conference, November 2009.