Simon Dempsey

Current

• Technical Director at Ivybridge Simulation

Past

• Validation engineer at NXP Semiconductors
• Consultant at Doulos Ltd
• Research Engineer at Wandel & Goltermann

• Weapon Engineer Officer at Royal Navy
• Weapon Engineer Artificer at Royal Navy

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Education

• Royal Naval Engineering College

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Industry

Semiconductors

Simon Dempsey’s Summary

Managing delivery and support of software and ASIC/FPGA projects for customers of the Ivysim consultancy.

Verification support of ASIC/FPGA projects.

Designing and building prototypes for communication test equipment. Including optical SDH and DVB cable TV.

Managing engineering department at sea, coordinating system availability, maintenance and repairs within constraints of a ship's operational programme.

Hands-on maintenance of surface-to-air ship borne missile system. Including management, leadership, radio-frequency, analogue/digital electronic, mechanical, hydraulic/pneumatic and explosive aspects.

Simon Dempsey’s Specialties:

Technical training, semiconductor design and verification project services, SystemC, VHDL, PSL, Perl, Tcl/Tk, Linux, Xilinx.

Simon Dempsey’s Experience

• Technical Director

  Ivybridge Simulation

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  October 2006 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Complete FPGA project management and delivery.
  
  ASIC design and verification services.
  
  Knowledge transfer. Doulos Certified Training Instructor.
  
  VHDL, C++, Tcl/Tk, Perl, ModelSim, Xilinx ISE. Embedded processors, Microblaze, PowerPC, Picoblaze.

• Validation engineer

  NXP Semiconductors

  (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; NXP; Semiconductors industry)

  July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)

  Validation for the analogue front end of a digital TV SoC using emulators from Mentor Graphics. This role required working with a large team and a thorough knowledge of many IP blocks. High level Perl programming was used to make IP block easily configurable by team members and reusable later with test silicon.
  
  Developed advanced test pattern generator in RTL for use in emulation and silicon validation. Comprehensive ModelSim simulation with Tcl/Tk visualisation of video data reduced development time.

• Consultant

  Doulos Ltd

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Semiconductors industry)

  July 2001 — September 2006 (5 years 3 months)

  Consultancy and training.
  
  Development and delivery of training for design/verification engineers using VHDL, SystemC, PSL, Perl and Tcl/Tk.
  
  Specialising in Xilinx FPGA development and training.

• Research Engineer

  Wandel & Goltermann

  (Semiconductors industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

• Weapon Engineer Officer

  Royal Navy

  (Semiconductors industry)

  1992 — 1996 (4 years)

• Weapon Engineer Artificer

  Royal Navy

  (Semiconductors industry)

  1984 — 1991 (7 years)

Simon Dempsey’s Education

• Royal Naval Engineering College

  BEng(Hons) 2:1, Electronics Communications, 1992 — 1995

  Activities and Societies:

  Rowing Club

Additional Information

Simon Dempsey’s Interests:

Mountain biking, walking, reading, family, brewing, investing, history.

Simon Dempsey’s Honors:

BEng

Simon Dempsey’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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