Matthew Marsicano's Portfolio

Matthew Marsicano

Hello, I'm Matthew

Electrical Engineering @ Northeastern University · Class of 2027

3.95 GPA · Silicon Engineering · PCB Design · RF and Mixed-Signal Systems

I build and test RF and mixed-signal hardware. PCB and silicon validation at Google, MediaTek, Draper, and Nokia Bell Labs, plus my own SKY130 chip designs.

Featured Projects

Recent work outside my internships

FlashNPU

Inference accelerator RTL

Runs neural network layers straight out of flash with no DRAM. 32-lane INT4 x INT8 GEMV engine fed by 4 striped flash channels. Bit-exact against a Python golden model.

SAR ADC model output spectrum showing 49.3 dB SNDR and 7.90 ENOB

8-bit SAR ADC

SKY130 · TinyTapeout analog

Differential 8-bit, 1 MS/s SAR with a monotonic-switching cap DAC. Golden model hits 7.9 ENOB. Bootstrapped sampling switch reaches 78 dB SFDR.

BLE Backscatter Modem

SKY130 · TinyTapeout digital

Baseband and RF switch controller for a BLE backscatter tag. Full P&R at 64 MHz with +3.08 ns slack and 0 DRC/LVS errors.

Backscatter Designer

Interactive tool

Link budget, Smith chart load states, image rejection, sideband spectrum, and bistatic coverage for an N-phase backscatter tag. Runs in the browser.

From the Lab

Hardware I've built and tested

Nokia Bell Labs tag verification testbench
Tag verification testbench, Nokia Bell Labs
GCE Control PCB V1.0, assembled
Filter machine control board, Generate
Assembled Tubender Rev 1.0 main board
Tubender Rev 1.0 main board, Generate
Open-source XR headset in use
Open-source XR headset, Networked XR

Areas of Interest

Roles I'm targeting for my engineering career

Analog / Mixed-Signal IC Design

  • Led zero-IF WiFi 7 transceiver characterization at MediaTek: DAC, ADC, front end, SI
  • 8-bit SKY130 SAR ADC and 40-100 MHz PLL with custom schematic and layout
  • FlashNPU: flash-streaming inference accelerator RTL

Product Development

  • Generate Product Development Studio: Principal Electrical Engineer, leading 100+ engineers across 8 client projects
  • Own trade-offs in RF TX, power, and robotic actuators
  • Founder & Director of Forge Silicon Design, Northeastern's first chip design student org

Wireless & RF Systems

  • MIPI RFFE compliance automation and 20 GHz PCB material characterization at Google
  • GPS receiver validation for Space Force handoff (Draper)
  • Backscatter PCB testbench across 300+ devices at Nokia Bell Labs
  • BLE backscatter modem TinyTapeout tile and BEACON backscatter wearable capstone

Work Experience

Most recent first

Honors & Recognition

Selected for competitive industry and university programs

Apple Next-Gen Innovators Mentee

1 of 10 Northeastern students selected for Apple's Hardware Engineering mentorship program · Sep 2025 – May 2026

Amazon Edge Technology Scholarship

1 of 3 students selected for the scholarship · October 2025

Silevitch Engineering Leadership Scholarship

Northeastern University · April 2026

MIT iQuHack 2024

2nd place, QuEra Challenge: Maximal Independent Set on QuEra's Aquila neutral-atom quantum computer

What's Next?

Looking ahead to the next chapter

EE Masters Programs

Applying Fall 2026

Full-Time Engineering

Seeking opportunities