Electrical Design consultation - digital design, FPGA design, schematic capture, PCB layout

Project Engineer in the Surface Display design team

Served as an Embedded Boot and Configuration expert for Versal, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC, Zynq, and MicroBlaze. Assisted customers with board turn-on and boot through u-Boot, as well as QA testing for new Xilinx tool releases (Vivado, Vitis, SDK). Application Note creation and maintenance.• Provided peripheral tests to speed customer board wake-up utilizing bare metal peripheral tests, and PCB signal integrity review.• Created workaround solutions that allowed customers to continue board wake-up process, maintain forecasted schedules and save significant development dollars.• Guided customer PCB design and provided signal integrity guidance.• Mentored customers to implement security and safety features that met their requirements.• Chosen as a member of the Product Review Team. • Resolved bugs in Xilinx documentation and tools that improved product quality standards.

Appointed as the Engineer Lead for Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) PXIe gen 3 embedded controller, PXIe gen 3 chassis development engineer, and Production Support Engineer for VXI products.• Provided design verification for ODM PXIe gen 3 controller by performing SI analysis, performance testing and environmental testing.• Performed SI simulation on all PCIe busses, which assured compliance with PCIe Gen 3 specs.• Consulted with Agilent offshore VXI production group, which improved production yield.

Applications support for Altera FPGAs Design Software and embedded controller design support

Engineer Lead Center of Technology. Created hardware embedded controllers. Designed, developed and supported reusable embedded PrPMC controller modules deployed in multiple Agilent instruments.• Created significant cost savings to Agilent.o X86 and PowerPC based.o USB High Speed host and Device 10/100 Base-T LAN, PCI.o Low-Level S/W engineer support for drivers & BSP.o VHDL code for GPIB, and various other functions.• Designed, developed and supported reusable front panel displays.o LCD display, multiple buttons and RPG.o Created embedded software for Microchip controller.• IO Subsystem design and support on Centrino-M based embedded controller.• Implemented design trade-off for various industry standard embedded controller modules.

Design of ENT medical devices including surgical drills and hearing devices