[Students - I have no hiring authority. If that is your interest in connecting with me, there's no benefit. Thank You! :-} ] 20+ years experience in hands-on development of large (multi-million gate) ASICs and FPGAs, including Architecture, Specification, RTL design, Verification, Synthesis, DFT, back-end netlist-to-GDS, FPGA prototyping, place/route, test program, etc., Over 18 tapeouts. 13 of last 15 completed ASIC designs had first pass success.Extensive experience with design and verification of DSP and processor-related IP, including FFT, wireless PHY development, LDPC, OFDM, xMSK, xPSK, Turbo enc/dec, channel emulators, HDMI video, A/V, audio sample filtering and playback; also experienced with DDR PHY, SoCs, ARM, ARC, MIPS, other CPUs, SoC/CPU peripherals, DDRx, (incl. DDR5) LPDDRx, serial and high-speed I/O interfaces (e.g., SERDES, I2C, etc.), others.Proficient at selection of ASIC/FPGA tools, IP, libraries, and back-end, foundry and supply chain vendors. Significant experience as liaison to variety of ASIC back-end vendors, both in US and overseas. Strong experience with IP selection, development, purchase negotiation, and integration.Experience with development, verification, and protoyping of designs targeted at large, and small, FPGAs including ARM-based SoC FPGAs (Altera & Xilinx). Languages/Tools: Verilog, VHDL, Perl, Python, TCL, C/C++, VCS, Modelsim, Spyglass, Quartus, Vivado, PrimeTime, Design Compiler, Mentor DFT, others.5 patents awarded related to lookup technology for networking.1 patent awarded for wireless technology
Listed skills include Asic, Verilog, Soc, Fpga, and 46 others.