Randal Vaughn - Partner
Randal Vaughn is an electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and RF design engineer. Randal is a partner of SILENT, an independent consulting firm that specializes in EMC and RF design, troubleshooting and training. SILENT provides services to commercial and industrial manufacturers with global distribution including the consumer, computer, network and telecommunications, industrial, scientific and automotive industries.

Previously, Randal was a Lead Engineer at Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group in Arlington Heights, Illinois. In that role he was responsible for providing RF and EMC design consulting in the design of cellular base stations from the PC board to system level. Mr. Vaughn developed high speed frequency synthesizers containing mixed analog, digital, and RF technologies for Northrop Defense Systems. He also designed and developed unique frequency control systems for the medical equipment and semiconductor test equipment industries.

Mr. Vaughn's more than twenty years of RF design and EMC experience includes a variety of high performance industrial and military radio system and circuit designs, as well as RF and EMC design and troubleshooting for many product types including high speed digital controllers, cellular base stations and high frequency/high power RF transmitters. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in physics from Louisiana State University in 1982 and advanced training in electromagnetic compatibility in 1997 from the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) EMC Laboratory (www.emclab.umr.edu).