Nor Eddine Kachkachi Ingénieur de recherche. Expert électronicien en conception et développement

Identifiants chercheurs

IdHAL :

noreddine-kachkachi

ORCID :

0009-0007-1817-5609

Présentation

Experienced Microelectronics Design Engineer with 20 years of experience in designing, verifying and validating innovative digital IPs and Embedded Systems.

I worked in a large application domain containing video, signal processing, interfacing IPs for digital TV, Smart phone, defense, consumer ASICs and FPGA.

Expert in Front-End Digital EDA and Front-End Digital IC design, I went through the whole ASIC and FPGA design process from specification to Layout passing by functional verification and Logic/Physical Synthesis as well as Static Timing Analysis. I used cutting edge EDA tools and methodologies. Extensive knowledge of the Design Flow consolidated with Embedded Systems architecture, PCB Design and NMR/NQR instrumentation FPGA based design.

My major research activity, which aims to enhance the sensitivity of NQR/NMR instrumentation, is focused on two axes, the first one is FPGA design and validation as well as system design dedicated to the development of innovative and original NQR/NMR portable and miniaturized spectrometers.

The developed systems, hence embark digital and analog electronics as well as embedded software targeted to the detection and processing of weak RF signals especially for NQR technique .

In this context, I did the FPGA design, the embedded software design/upgrade, the system integration, the functional verification, the stand alone and system validation of an FPGA based compact NQR spectrometer.

My second research axis is the definition and implementation on SW or on digital hardware target (FPGA) of NQR/NMR de-noising techniques like SVD, digital filtering, NMR per-processings,…The NQR technique, though it suffers from weak sensitivity, has a wide spectrum of possible applications like drugs analysis and counterfeits detection, narcotic detection, operator-secure explosive detection, and molecular structures studies.

The obtained results so far are very satisfying since, using the developed systems, we easily detected the expected frequencies for reference samples as well as for commercial ones (e.g. Commercial and lab synthesized Paracetamol) .

The SNR of the system was also significantly enhanced compared to old systems (x10 thanks to refurbishing and new acquisition using oversampling and then x2,5 thanks to FPGA design and integration).

In order to achieve these developments I brought up my expertise in FPGA/ASIC IC (Integrated Circuit) Digital Design coupled with my skills in embedded and PCB design. This expertise was accumulated during my past years in in microelectronics industry (ST-Microelectronics, Amesys, Cadence,…) in which I achieved the design and validation with first silicon success of several IPs and systems.

Publications

Communication dans un congrès (4)

Construction d’un spectromètre RQN Noreddine Kachkachi ECHANGE ET MISE EN COMMUN D’EXPERIENCES EN SPECTROSCOPIE RQN, Jan 2025, Paris, France Communication dans un congrès hal-04934724v1
Conception numérique, vérification fonctionnelle et validation expérimentale d'un spectromètre RQN compact à base d'un SoC-FPGA Noreddine Kachkachi,Axel Gansmuller,Hassan Rabah Quatrième école technologique du réseau des électroniciens, Oct 2024, Lyon, France Communication dans un congrès hal-04748416v1
Bit-Accurate RTL Simulation of an NQR Spectrometer's SoC-FPGA Noreddine Kachkachi,Hassan Rabah 31st IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Nov 2024, Nancy, France. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1109/ICECS61496.2024.10849348⟩ Communication dans un congrès hal-04926431v1
SoC-FPGA based compact NQR Spectrometer Noreddine Kachkachi,Axel Gansmuller,Hassan Rabah GDR-SoC2, Jun 2024, Toulouse, France Communication dans un congrès hal-04661977v1

Article dans une revue (1)

Design and experimental validation of a SoC-FPGA based compact NQR Spectrometer Noreddine Kachkachi,Axel Gansmuller,Hassan Rabah IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, In press, ⟨10.1109/tim.2024.3374319⟩ Article dans une revue hal-04519770v1

Poster de conférence (2)

HW/SW Co-Design and test of a SoC-FPGA based NQR Compact Spectrometer Noreddine Kachkachi,Axel Gansmuller,Hassan Rabah GDR-SoC2, Jun 2024, Toulouse, France. , 2024 Poster de conférence hal-04631500v1
System on Chip based compact NQR Spectrometer Noreddine Kachkachi,Axel Gansmuller,Hassan Rabah Colloque 2021 du GDR-SOC2 du CNRS, Jun 2021, Rennes, France Poster de conférence hal-04578093v1

Thèse (1)

Spectromètre RQN à base d’un SoC-FPGA : Conception numérique, vérification fonctionnelle et validation expérimentale Noreddine Kachkachi Electronique. Université de Lorraine, 2024. Français. ⟨NNT : 2024LORR0053⟩ Thèse tel-04746601v1

Brevet (3)

NUCLEAR QUADRUPOLE RESONANCE SPECTROMETER Noreddine Kachkachi,Axel Gansmuller,Hassan Rabah,Denis Grandclaude France, Patent n° : EP 4443184 A1. 2024 Brevet hal-04747947v1
Conception d'un module vhdl pour conversion automatique de debit d'images Noreddine Kachkachi,Francois Bourzeix Maroc, N° de brevet: MA 34265 B1. 2013 Brevet hal-03972811v1
Conception d'un système embarque électronique multifonctions pour multi-cameras. Noreddine Kachkachi,Francois Bourzeix,Andronic Bonarijesy,Zakaria Ruichek Maroc, N° de brevet: MA 34266 B1. 2011 Brevet hal-03972860v1

Autre publication scientifique (1)

System on Chip based compact NQR Spectrometer Noreddine Kachkachi,Axel Gansmuller,Hassan Rabah 2021 Autre publication scientifique hal-04578060v1