University of Texas

FPGA designer for IPS

Austin, Texas, United States

Trend Micro

FPGA Designer

Hewlett-Packard

FPGA design engineer

Responsible for developing and supporting custom hardware used to meet a variety of needs.  Worked with tool requesters to determine their requirements.  Conceived and implemented prototype solutions to prove they would meet the needs.  Refined and documented requirements and specifications.  Created schematics for solutions and monitored layout of resulting PCBs. Implemented and verified FPGA RTL.  Developed embedded software.  Interfaced with mechanical engineers, application developers, and others necessary to make a complete solution.  Tested and debugged solution in bring-up and user support phases.  Provided technical guidance and acted as a mentor to interns and off-shore engineersHighlights:•Used development kits to prototype several options to replace "Wombat" project to improve performance.  Options prototyped included using an FPGA linked by PCI-E to a processor(low power x86 and ARM) and FPGA with integrated ARM processor•Wrote Linux PCI-Express drivers to do prototyping•Created full solution based on FPGA with ARM that included expansion capability to be the basis for future tools•Developed a modified DisplayPort 1.2 MST receiver device using FPGA with transceivers and fully custom logic for a special use case•Used AXI buses extensively internal to the FPGAs in the above projects

Advanced Micro Devices

Senior Systems Design Engineer

Developing custom test and measurement tools.•Defining and documenting project requirements and specifications•Creating schematics for and monitoring layout of PCBs•Interfacing with mechanical engineers, application developers•Overseeing other systems engineers•Developing, verifying, and debugging FPGA logic in Verilog•Bring-up of hardware, FPGA logic, and embedded code•Testing and debugging of FPGAs and PCBs

Systems Design Engineer II

Developed portions of custom hardware tools including•Creating schematics for and monitoring layout PCBs•Interfacing with mechanical engineers and application developers•Developing, verifying, and debugging FPGA logic in Verilog•Bring-up of hardware and FPGA RTL•Testing and debugging of FPGAs and PCBsProject highlights•Created FPGA logic to interface miscellaneous full speed platform signals, such as clocks, resets and debug signals,to a significantly slower Cadence Palladium III emulator.•Designed characterization board testing signal integrity and specification compliance of multi-gigahertz link such as PCI-Express and HyperTransport •Created FPGA for characterization board to control power and access CPU debug features which improved efficiency and control by adding options for fine granularity software control of power margin-ing in place of coarse grain manual jumper setting

System Design Engineer I

Assisted in the development of variety of hardware tool projects by•Creating schematics for and monitored the layout of PCBs•Designing and verifying programmable device logic in Verilog •Assisting with the bring-up and debug of the hardware and programmable device logic•Creating Linux shell and PERL scripts to assist with various tasksHighlights:•Created scripts to convert logic analyzer traces to Verilog stimulus•Developed CPLD logic to act as a JTAG based FLASH programmer and configure an FPGA to replace a high cost  EEPROM from the FPGA vendor•Designed system for testing connectivity of interposers used to gain access to signals in systems without debug interfaces

Peter Andriukaitis