Senior Design Engineer at Toshiba
San Francisco Bay Area
Senior Design Engineer at Toshiba
San Francisco Bay Area
Started at White Eagle Technologies doing everything from profiling DSP algorithms, to implementing coprocessors in Verilog and verifying behavior in simulation and on FPGA's.
Now working at Toshiba America Electronic Components (TAEC) with the main responsibility of supporting the usage of EDA tools for our Design Center engineers. Currently supporting tools for synthesis, static timing analysis (STA), formal verification, design for test (DFT), simulation and internal tools. Also working within TAEC and with Toshiba Japan to make improvements.
Involved with verification challenges for System On Chip projects. Using VERA, Verilog and C to verify IP's.
Also enjoy technical writing with Framemaker, creating user manuals and specifcations that are used within Toshiba and with our customers.
Verilog / VHDL design and verification. Static Timing Analysis (STA), Formal Verification, Design for Test (DFT)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)
July 2002 — Present (7 years 1 month)
System On Chip Verification using VERA, Verilog. Integration with ARM processors.
EDA support for Static Timing analysis (STA), Verilog and VHDL simulation, Formal Verification, Design For Test (DFT), and internal tools.
Six Sigma project leader to reduce support turn around time (TAT)
Research and evaluation of new tools and technologies.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
April 2000 — April 2002 (2 years 1 month)
- Designer, developer of a process and flow automation tool which targeted to provide automation from RTL to GDS.
- Designer, developer of the AMA Elaborator, which provided parameters for Verilog or SystemC. Allowing parameterization for the number of instances, ports, connections, port widths and more. This assisted us to have a quickly adaptable architecture with respect to core computational elements such as alus, multipliers, filters or other specialized elements.
- Managed MySQL database.
- Published User Manuals.
- Customer support.
- System and Unit level hardware implementation and verification using Verilog, Perl, Assembly, and C++
- Implemented AHB master and slave test modules.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
June 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 1 month)
- Performed hot spot analysis on a GSM EFR DSP algorithm. Designed, implemented and verified a co-processor for accelerating FIR and IIR operations.
- Designed, implemented and verified an AHB DMA interface for use by the co-processor
- Used Xilinx FPGAs to verify the coprocessor along side an ARC processor. Co-processor provided over 2X speed improvement to GSM EFR.
Bachelor , Computer Engineering , January 1991 — January 2000