Senior Engineer

Lead FPGA design engineer. Signal processing and interfacing with DDR and other peripherals. 

Principal FPGA Engineer

I've worked in 4G and 5G communications, including Multiple-Input Multiple-Output communications which 4G and 5G are built on. I mostly work in the physical layer so schemes like Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing and the other variants such as OFDMA and SC-FDMA. 

With these technologies there are some smaller building blocks that I am well versed in such as frequency mixing and filtering. Some slightly more advanced concepts like autocorrelation and correlation. I have experience with QR decomposition and LU decomposition. 

I have designed from scratch many systems that include signal processing on an FPGA. The most interesting is a recent technology from Xilinx in which the ADCs and DACs are on the same silicon as the FPGA and an ARM processing. This platform is known as the RFSoC. 

I have experience on mostly Xilinx FPGAs but I have used Altera FPGAs in the past. In 2015 I taught a course that used an Altera FPGA in which we covered the basics of VHDL programming. 

I have experience in developing SPI controllers for off-chip communication as well as DDR Controller to save off a lot of data for future use. 

Most of my experience in Python is to test my VHDL code. I use an automated methodology to generate stimulus and compare results. This type of programming is more scripting experience than true object-oriented programming. 

I have developed some small games in Python. These games are used for teaching high school students the fundamentals of personal finance. 

Senior FPGA Engineer with 10+ years experience

Jason Pennington

I wrote a small book available for free with some tips for getting started in two popular embedded processing platforms. The single board computer (SBC) and the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Both of these platforms can be difficult to get started in because they can feel a little bit intimidating. This books aims to help alleviate some of that anxiety by breaking the problem down into small manageable chunks that can be learned and understood. I also encourage feedback on the book for ways it can be made better.   

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