
Trainee IC Design Engineer at FTDI
Glasgow, United Kingdom

Trainee IC Design Engineer at FTDI
Glasgow, United Kingdom
A motivated and enthusiastic electronic engineer with strong understanding of design / verification methodologies and design issues.
IP Development, ASIC / digital IC / SoC, RTL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, HDL,, System-on-Chip, FPGAs, Xilinx, Microcontrollers, Digital Hardware, Electronic Design, Embedded Systems, C programming
(Privately Held; Semiconductors industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
Verilog/SystemVerilog IP development and verification of next generation USB ICs.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; XLNX; Semiconductors industry)
June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)
MSc project involving Gigabit Ethernet platform implementation in FPGA and system characterisation; extensive usage of Xilinx toolset (ISE, EDK, ChipScope) and Virtex-4 development board; Verilog and C coding.
(Computer Hardware industry)
January 2006 — June 2008 (2 years 6 months)
Microcontroller-based design services and consultancy, analogue and digital board level design, development tools manufacturing and distribution.
(Food & Beverages industry)
April 2006 — April 2007 (1 year 1 month)
I upgraded firmware and developed new microcontroller-based temperature controllers to replace company’s existing temperature control solutions. I also maintained company’s equipment and provided technical service involving fault finding to component level, SMD soldering and rework.
(Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
November 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 1 month)
PCB assembly, test and quality inspection of printed circuits and fully assembled products.
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
June 2002 — August 2002 (3 months)
The role involved working under time pressure with high power TV and radio broadcasting equipment, maintenance and service to PCB level.
MSc (distinction) , System Level Integration , 2007 — 2008
Joint MSc course of four universities: Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt, Glasgow and Strathclyde.
Final Project: Characterisation and optimisation of packet processing system. Industrial project carried out at Xilinx, Edinburgh Design Centre. The project involves characterisation of Gigabit Ethernet reference design and its implementation in Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA.
Course involved: IP Block Authoring and Integration, VLSI design, Embedded Operating Systems, System Partitioning, Embedded Networking, Sensor Networks, DSP for Communications, FPGAs for DSP and Communications.
BSc (2:1) , Electronics and Telecommunications , 1999 — 2004
Final Project: Industrial applications of microcontrollers. The project involved design and prototyping of a development board and preparation of a set of exercises later used in education at undergraduate level.
Course involved: Analogue and Digital Electronics, Control theory, Microcontrollers and Microprocessors, RF and Microwave design, DSP and Communication Algorithms, EMI compliance.
deer stalking, clay / game shooting, fishing
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