Simon Defayette, P.Eng. Email & Phone Number

Montreal, Canada Area

- Lead an hardware/firmware R&D team for digital and RF applications.- Schedule weekly/daily tasks, features to implement and bugs to fix.- Hardware and firmware architecture design.- Estimate time and cost of a project.- Lead schematic and PCB reviews.- Deep understanding of products.- Help to debug in urgent situations.- Communicate frequently with product managers to define functionalities and explain ideas.- Communicate with other teams/offices to coordinate efforts.- Find solutions to urgent situations.- Managed to go through IC part shortage era that began in 2021.- Programming firmware for micro-controllers (C/C++) and FPGA (VHDL/Verilog).

Montreal, Canada Area

- Hardware design and review : PCB Schematic / BOM, PCB Layout (RF and digital)- RF System analysis : Front-end performance analysis, Digital communication (QAM, OFDM, ISDB-T, Satellite)- Digital signal processing- QAM modulation analysis- Analog measurements- FPGA / MCU- FPGA ressource optimization for digital signal processing- Load balancing between MCU (limited by speed) and FPGA (limited by ressources)- MPEG2 Transport Stream monitoring- Ethernet, USB connectivity- Linux / U-Boot BSP / NIOS II- For analog, I have been implicated in front-ends where there are : DDS, PLL, mixer, analog filters, amplifiers, ADC, DAC, oscillators/crystal, switches, attenuators.- Digital and analog CATV measurements

Montreal, Canada Area

Project Leader & Manager for "EMI Leakage/Ingress Monitoring System"​ for the TV cable broadcasting industry.- Design new architectures- Prototyping and trying new ideas.- Digital signal processing for Software Digital Radio : FPGA and DSP- FFT, IFFT, FIR, IIR, CIC, Clock recovery- Simulation (MATLAB)- Link budget calculation (including antenna gain estimation)- Programming DSP's, microcontrollers and FPGA's- Bootloader programming.- PCB Board desing : schematics, layout, MCU, FPGA, RF, ADC/DAC, PLL, mixers, RF amp, RF filters, memories, power supplies, clock distribution, interconnect, battery chargers- Linux Embedded programming (C/C++) : user space and kernel space.- Writing test plans and procedures for production.- Project management.- Automotive environment- Chassis Design (floor planning)- Supervising engineers- Use of OEM GPS- Cellular, WiFi, Bluetooth, Ethernet connecvity- Use of OpenSSL library for securityProjects :- CPAT Automatic Ingress monitoring for CATV (ITX1, ITX2, IRX1)- Digital Signal Processing for CATV EMI leakage detection (DRV1, DRV3)- CPAT AFDD v3 (Logs data and retransmits them to a server for processing)- I also contributed to other projects (ARD4, DRV2)http://www.effigis.com

Montreal, Canada Area

Helping students designing their microcontroller with VHDL. (RISC)

Montreal, Canada Area

Conceiving a 2 wheels balancing robot :- Involvement in electric design (Schematics, PCB).- Atmega128 programming (using C).- Regulation theory (for the balance).- Conceiving the telemetry (using Java).

Montreal, Canada Area

- Sonar’s new PCB : Schematics, PCB, FPGA, MCU.- Programming in the AUV’s main program.- Real-time digital signal processing with Texas Instruments TMS320F2812 for acoustic triangulation: transducers, configurable digital filters, phase processing, handles statistical errors.http://sonia.etsmtl.ca/http://newscenter.ti.com/Blogs/newsroom/archive/2007/06/18/ti-dscs-bring-performance-and-integration-for-real-time-acoustic-triangulation-in-team-sonia-s-autonomous-underwater-vehicle-sc07113.aspx

Miranda is one of the world leader in video broadcasting equipment. I was working mainly on analog to digital video cards and distribution/aplifying cards as well.Firmware designer - C (C++ for tools) - Flash NAND technolgiesHardware designer - Hardware fixes - Schematics and design - Test and measures

* Programmed C++ simulation tools and libraries for ASIC (VHDL) validation for the next graphics processor.

- Lead programmer. - Microcontroller programming : HCS12.- Sensors programming: gyroscope, accelerometers, ultrasonic sensors.- QNX programming: drivers and real-time applications.- Communication protocol design between components.- Various assistance: mechanics, electric, analyzing problems, marketing.

Gatineau

Creation and marketing of a software program for the management of the minutes of private land surveyor firms in the Province of Quebec.

- Performed supplementary work on the communication protocol.- Handled structures and databases.- Added features.- Performed work on the GUI (MFC)- Helped in stabilizing the software.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: - Student projects : AUV's and UAV's (autonomous vehicules)

College, Computer Engineering Technology (Graduation With Honors)

Activities and Societies: - Java/C/C++/SQL/assembly - Microcontrolers programming - Created a compiler (with our own language) - Learning.