Roberto Farina

Current

Senior Consultant at CEFRIEL
Freelance consultant at (self employed)
Teaching Assistant at Politecnico di Milano

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Past

Consultant at CEFRIEL
Researcher at CEFRIEL

Education

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CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Milano

I.T.I.S. Badoni

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Website

Roberto Farina’s Summary

* Embedded system development

Design space exploration exploiting knowledge of hardware and software components, OS and real time skills.
From specification to design and implementation.

Embedded software development.

Linux kernel development: device drivers, kernel modules.
Development of an application framework for embedded terminals providing a custom complex user interface and a software infrastructure for custom application development on the target device.
Development of a Linux daemon for real time image elaboration and filtering.

* Digital design

FPGA-based system design from high-level specification to implementation and verification.
Complete design flow from behavioral to timing simulation, synthesis, place and route and optimization.
High speed parallel processing algorithm development for Lattice SC/M devices (more than 80% device usage including MACO blocks and BRAMs), PCIe interfaces, LVDS interfaces, DMA logic, IP integration.
Microblaze-based and PPC-based SoC systems.
Development of software testing framwrork for the HW designs.
SoC development on Xilinx V2Pro: Microblaze-based and PPC -based systems, custom peripheral integration and device driver development.
Behavioral and timing simulation.

* Education

Training activities for embedded software developers on kernel space programming and device driver development in Linux and RT systems.
Training for digital hw development engineers on FPGA design flow, synthesis, simulation and verification.

Roberto Farina’s Specialties:

Embedded system design
FPGA-based systems
Operating systems
Linux programming

Roberto Farina’s Experience

Senior Consultant

CEFRIEL

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 10 months)

Embedded system consultant
Embedded software developer, C/C++ developer, VHDL design
Project management
Freelance consultant

(self employed)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years )

Embedded system designer
Open source developer

FPGA systems, Operating systems, RT systems
Teaching Assistant

Politecnico di Milano

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

October 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)

Teaching assistant in "Laboratory of Operating Systems and Software Design" and "Embedded systems" courses
Consultant

CEFRIEL

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — March 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Embedded system consultant
Embedded software developer, C/C++ developer, VHDL design
Researcher

CEFRIEL

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — January 2006 (2 years 1 month)

Embedded systems designer

Roberto Farina’s Education

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- , Functional Safety Management , 2009 — 2009

Activities and Societies:

Training regarding IEC 61508 and the design and development of electronic systems involving safety aspects
CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano

II Level Master , Embedded systems , 2002 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

HW/SW co-design
FPGA systems
Reconfigurable systems
Politecnico di Milano

Engineer , Computer science , 1997 — 2003
I.T.I.S. Badoni

Computer science 1993 — 1997

Additional Information

Roberto Farina’s Websites:

My Website

Roberto Farina’s Groups:

CEFRIEL Alumni
Politecnico di Milano Alumni
Embedded
VLSI Design
Contract Engineers
AIR - Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca
Open Source Universe
FPGA
Linux Expert
Telecom & Embedded
ASIC & FPGA Engineers: www.ASICForum.com
FPGA - Field Programmable Gate Array
Technology Outsourcing– Professionals/ Software Developers/ Freelancers/ Programmers/ Entrepreneurs
FPGA/CPLD Design Group
ASIC and FPGA Professionals
Embedded Systems Group
Linux Community
LavoroSvizzera.com
IT Trainers
Embedded Linux
Embedded Technologies
Innov'azione
Embedded Systems Professionals
Embedded Designers
Embedded Professionals
Real-Time Embedded Engineering
Real-Time Embedded European Community
Milan IT Professionals
DRESD
Embedded Software/Firmware PROs
FPGA Users
Freelance ASIC and FPGA Professionals
Embedded Freelance Consultants
Trainers Network
Embedded Systems Design
Embedded Outsourcing
Milano ICT
GNU/Linux Jobs
ICOMO La fabbrica delle idee - network per l'innovazione
The Embedded - Hardware & Software Group
Mobile Embedded Design
EDN's Electronics Design Network
Test & Measurement World
ASIC & FPGA Experts Group