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Debugged Multi-Million gate SOC ASIC to Save Project From Failure

Debugged intractable problem in the gate level implementation of a multi-million gate SOC which the designers spent three months trying to find. I Discovered a flaw in the timing analysis that allowed the design to pass static timing analysis (STA) yet fail in silicon. After examining the pattern of instruction fetch address generation failures, I hypothesized and proved the conjecture that a single hold time violation on one bit of a critical state machine logic path was to blame. Customer verified my suggested modification through E-Beam modification of actual silicon.

3D Graphics ASIC Consulting

Consulted to Ball Corporation's Real Time Imaging unit on a graphics pipeline ASIC chip set. Established a design methodology which made it possible for the design team to create the chip set in record time. It also lead to a reduction in the size of the largest device by 30% over the previous design. Also designed hardware, directed other consultants in development of floating point hardware, and trained team members in VHDL and Mentor Graphics Autologic synthesis tools.