Tom Roe Email & Phone Number

Pennsylvania, United States

Davidson, North Carolina, US

Developing data storage FPGA in VHDL on Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale Plus. Test bench and evaluation board prototyping development. System level PCIe DMA and 10G/2G custom Serdes code. Developed single board computer including dual rank DDR3L at 1866 MHz, 2 channels of 10G Ethernet, 32 lanes of PCIe Gen3, Kintex Ultrascale, NXP T2080 processor, 312 MHz QDR.

Developed high speed VHDL/Verilog based Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale FPGA for high speed (11Gbps) Serdes to parallel data converter using Vivado and Modelsim. Developed clock domain crossings, partitioning and timing constraints for internal clocking speeds from 175 to 220 MHz. Using Modelsim simulations, Xilinx Chipscope ILA and VIO for hardware verification.

Frederick, Maryland, US

Technical lead of a FPGA development team. Responsible for the development of three Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA's for a motor control system. Developed VHDL based PID controllers and extensive mathematical VHDL code development. Used Mentor Graphics Modelsim to create a complete test bench for functional verification. Used Matlab/Simulink to model control loops.

Fremont, CA, US

High speed digital design and embedded power supply design. PCI Express Gen 2 and Sata gen 3, 6 Gbps board design. Used Ansys HFSS and Designer for board level and full channel signal and power integrity design. Verified simulations with real time scope and VNA. VHDL high speed test code for Xilinx Virtex 6. All products worked at full speed on first spin.

Whippany, NJ, US

Developed embedded electronics. Completed DSP based motor controller including TI TMS320F28335 based control board, on board power electronics, ADC front end design and drive electronics. Developed low level firmware in C and assembly on Code Composer. Developed MSP430 based hand-held device incuding software and firmware on Code Composer and Visual Basic..

Cincinnati, OH, US

Developed hardware and software for PowerPC based aerospace units. High speed digital design using Mentor Hyperlynx. Software development for VxWorks 5.4 and AE653.

US

PowerPC based single board computer design including high speed design and on board sequenced power supply design. Xilinx VHDL DRAM controller and glue logic design. DO-254 V&V using VHDL test bench code and ModelSim.

Grand Rapids, MI, US

Developed hand held PowerPC, CMOS based digital camera for the Dental industry. Responsible for all electronics design and production hardware. Developed low level driver software in C and assembly. Developed VHDL based CMOS camera DMA controller and glue logic for Xilinx Spartan 3 FPGA.

Charlotte, North Carolina, US

Driver level software for Windows based network system. Developed PC based test equipment software using Visual Basic and C/C++ for windows.

Bethesda, MD, US

Satellite grade low voltage power supply design. Telemetry communication circuit design. Developed complex PLD HDL code for telemetry up-link unit including FSK and FM modulation modules. Developed Analog Devices floating point DSP circuit board, boot code and test code in C and assembly.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

Member of Rotation, Co-op, Fellowship Program. The Rotation Program was a competitive entrance program within Hughes to train fresh-out engineers in many programs within Hughes. Rotation program ended with 2 years of satellite grade switching power supply design under the mentoring of top switching power supply design engineers.

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Bachelor'S Degree, Bioengineering And Biomedical Engineering