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Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina

Responsible for supporting Microchip's existing customers and working with future customers to facilitate the integration of Microchip's devices into their designs.

Raleigh, NC

Developed several hardware modules used in the company's communications interoperability and radio receiver voting products. Work includes PCB level design, embedded ARM/Linux and DSP application development on the TI OMAP processor, Atmel AVR hardware and software design including 'Qtouch' touch panels, and hardware and software designs based on various.

Durham, NC

Developed hardware designs used in several RFID reader products. Responsibilities included FPGA implementation of DSP algorithms in VHDL, FPGA data acquisition circuit design, PCB-level hardware development for PXA270 and Analog Devices DSP, and VHDL testbench design.

Raleigh, NC

Designed a microcontroller-based control board and wrote embedded software for a 125W HF radio amplifier design. The control board configured and monitored the amplifier circuit and controlled an antenna coupler unit that was used with the system. Wrote Visual C++ software to provide a user interface to change and store HF radio settings and control an.

Cary, NC

Responsible for the hardware development for two generations of switch fabric modules used in the company's IP services switch. The designs included complex switch fabric chipsets, high-speed FPGA and CPLD designs written in Verilog, timing and signal integrity calculations, high-speed serializer/de-serializer devices, and LVPECL backplane interface.

Durham, NC

Developed several microprocessor and microcontroller based products and software solutions used in various industries. Responsibilities included interfacing with the customer to determine requirements, PCB-level hardware design, embedded firmware development, product manufacturing and test development, Visual C++ software design, interfacing with.

Kennedy Space Center, FL

Completed several hardware and software designs used in support equipment for space shuttle payload testing. Developed PCB level hardware and CPLD designs as well as software in Motorola 68000 assembly language, C, and Visual Basic.