Senior Staff Engineer Resume
SUMMARY:
- 8+Years Embedded Systems Hardware, FPGA & Software Development
- 4+ Advanced PCB Design and Development
- Processor Experience: mostly ARMs and Atmel AVRs
- FPGA Experience: Xilinx, (ARM - Cortex A9), Lattice
- Embedded Software: C/C++, Perl, Linux Systems, and ARM Linux Device Drivers
- Signal Processing and Control System Theory
- Standard protocols & interfaces
- I2C, SPI, PCIe, UART, RS-232, DDR, DDR2, USB, NEMA, etc.
- Sensors, Actuators, and Peripheral Chips (Hardware and Software Interfaces)
- MEMS Gyros, and Accelerometers,
- Mixed signal: Many Different ADC, DAC chips.
- Resistive Magnetic (Compass)
- GPS /NEMA Protocol Module
- RF Communication Modules (900Mhz)
- High Current DC Motor (H-Bridge) Speed Controllers
- Stepper Motor Actuators, + Optical, Magnetic, and MEMs Gyros.
- Thermal management: RTD’s, thermocouples, Heaters, Semiconductor (Pelletier) Coolers
- Power Management (Hardware and Software)
- Voltage and Current sensors
- Miniature Efficient Software Controllable Voltage Regulators
- Processor & Peripheral Clocking and Sleep/Wake Algorithms
- Power/Battery Management Optimization
- Image Processing Hardware and Software Design
- High Speed Analog Interfaces: DDR2/DDR3, PCIe, High Speed Signal SSTL, CML, LVDS
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
ASIC/FPGA Development: Xilinx, Lattice Verilog and VHDL RTL, Development, Simulation, and Testing Synthesis, Timing Analysis, DFT, Scan Insertion, Scan Test Vector Generation. Synopsys, Cadence, and some MentorPCB Board Design: Analog Circuit Design, Component selection, analysis and simulation (Pspice). Tools: Orcad/Cadence, Altium, Some PCAD, Schematic Capture and Auto Route. High Speed Signal Integrity, Analysis, & Power EMI Signal Conditioning, Filtering, noise immunity, Interface Voltage Level matching SSTL, CML, LVDS, TTL etc. Bench prototyping testing, debug and board Boot up. I Designed and Fabricated and Debugged A Lot of boards.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Senior Staff Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Project Lead: Develop Embedded/SoC Systems Very Long Period ASIC Testing and Characterization.
- High Temperature Operational Life (HTOL) Tester. (Xilinx ARM Corex-A9/FPGA Based, 1GB-ethernet)
- Develop Custom Test Electronics for ASICs from many companies, large and small.
- Very Large, High Speed, Network ASICs (32Bit AVR, Xilinx-Zynq, 8bit AVR)
- Cell Phone Battery Management ASICs ( Confidential Proprietary ARM, 8Bit AVRs )
- Long Duration Voltage Regulator Efficiency and Accuracy Testing (Auto Grade 8Bit AVRs)
- FLASH Memory Long term Read/Write Lifetime (32Mhz 32Bit AVR/Military Grade)
Confidential
ASIC Design Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Low power ARM based GPS Module (0.65um, 0.90um versions)
ASIC/Embedded Design Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Develop Firmware test suite for PIC based RaserX SOC
- JTAG, BIST & Scan Test vector generation
Confidential
Design Consultant
Responsibilities:
- RTL for UARTs, GPIOs, AVR Interfaces, Clock Controls, SRAM and Flash blocks