David Poulin Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Kanata, Canada

- Founded Datum TC in Ottawa as a Canadian Corporation in February 2018- Mission statement to provide world-class Digital Design Verification services and to create and foster Free & Open Source (FOS) IP/VIP/tools for hardware development

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Participated in the verification of a cross-bar design interfacing with JESD for a carrier-grade 5G ASIC, using a UVM Test Bench and constrained random stimulus.

Ottawa, Canada

Architected & developed UVM test benches, environments, agents and libraries as well as necessary scripts for 2 turnkey FPGA (Xilinx IP) projects with 10+ team members for large end-customers (carrier grade):- Front Haul Router family (3 variants) handling Interlaken (150G & 200G), Ethernet (1G/10G/25G), CPRI over ROE, PTP & TSN with PCIe Gen2 CPU access- FEC Coding (Turbo Code) and OAM DMA engine for 5G/LTE using PCIe Gen3 host access

Ottawa, Canada

Architected & developed UVM VIP, system-level environments and test benches from the ground up, test cases involving XGS-PON, APB and AXI-Stream using Questa.- Created XGS-PON, APB & AXI-Stream UVM agents from the ground up- Created 2 separate UVM environments, Test Benches and Test Cases for XGS-PON OLT & ONU- Developed and maintained Python simulation makefiles and regression scripts- Wrote Verification Plan for DUT and thoroughly documented all verification constructs with diagrams and class member documentation.

Kanata, Canada

Architected & developed UVM VIP, chip-level & system-level environments from the ground up, test cases involving USB 3.1, Ethernet, PCIe, NVMe, SATA & SAS using VCS, NC & Questa. Also set up all script/tool infrastructure.- Developed UVM Ethernet VIP and architected environments/test benches for 1G/10G/25G/40G/50G/100G/200G/400G (Channelized, FlexE, TCP, IP, ARP, IEEE-1588, VXLAN, MAC, PCS & FEC) IP product line- Developed UVM JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) VIP- Participated in productization of VIPs, performed deliveries and provided support; authored technical literature: user guides, tutorials, product briefs- Architected and built system-level UVM environment involving PCIe, NVMe, SATA & SAS using vendor VIPs- Architected and built chip-level UVM environment and test cases for USB 3.1 Retimer IC using vendor & custom VIPs- Created functional coverage models for protocols such as Ethernet, USB, JTAG, APB- Interacted with vendors in the evaluation of IP & VIP- Dealt with clients in both contractual and sales contexts- Managed, mentored and trained junior and co-op engineers- Developed and maintained Makefiles, scripts and templates for the usage and creation of UVM VIPs & testbenches- Created custom Doxygen flow to automate the creation of reference documentation for SystemVerilog IP & VIP- Created and maintained continuous integration solution for VIPs and environments using Jenkins- Created UVM company training material (from Bash to Virtual Sequences) for new employees, junior engineers and co-op students

Kanata, Canada

Responsible for verification and debugging of switch-level netlists and behavioural models of OTP memory (as well as associated circuitry) and power supplies.- Created complete verification environment, test cases, documentation and automation (SystemVerilog, TCL, UVM, QuestaSim)- Verification of analog circuitry using mixed-mode simulation (Questa ADMS, SPICE)- Analysis and reverse engineering of mixed-signal, switch-level schematics (ICStudio)- Pushed for integration of innovative techniques and open standards (SystemVerilog, UVM, XSLT, HTML, ECMAScript)- Created and maintained scripts for automation of verification process (TCL)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for development of client-side Web 2.0 applets seen/used by hundreds of thousands of users- Main developer of web applet for comment system (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX)- Main developer of chat client (XMPP, ECMAScript, HTML, ActionScript)

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Responsible for development of rich Web 2.0 and mobile applications- Designed and implemented Web 2.0 library from the ground-up using OO methods and conventions (ECMAScript, HTML, CSS, AJAX)- Main developer of C# Windows Mobile application for home automation (C#, .NET Mobile)

B.A.Sc., Computer Engineering, Including Engineering Management And Entrepreneurship Option

Education record

Activities and Societies: Web Site Club, School TV Club, Varsity Hockey Team.