HW engineer

3/2015 – 4/2015

-Development of an S-M2M modulator (C and VHDL)

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), ModelSim (Mentor Graphics), Quartus (Altera), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), C

6/2013 – 12/2013

-Turbo encoder development for FSIM modulator (VHDL code and C++ model)
-BCH + LDPC encoder development for DVB-T2 (VHDL code and C++ model)

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), Xilinx ISE (Integrated Synthesis Environment), C++

5/2011 – 5/2018

-FW development (Forth and assembler) and verification for a UMTS/LTE
coprocessor (MAC layer)
-SystemC development of the coprocessor model for FW verification and virtual
prototyping
-Support for HW verification and HW bringup
-Workflow automation (Perl scripting): verification plan, performance analysys, FW
profiling

Assembler, C++, Firmware, ModelSim (Mentor Graphics), Perl

1/2009 – 5/2011

-Video over IP: VHDL design of the correction code (ProMPEG-COP3), FPGA integration
of the whole system (Xilinx Spartan3), verification (ActiveHDL, Chipscope),
documentation and customer support
-DVB-T modulator: customizations and code optimizations, FPGA implementation (Xilinx
Spartan3) and customer support
-TIA-902.BAAD wideband air interface channel coding: encoder and decoder VHDL
design, verification (ActiveHDL) and documentation
-Xilinx Authorized Trainer

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), Riviera-PRO (Aldec), Xilinx ISE (Integrated Synthesis Environment), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)

1/2008 – 12/2008

-Protection management for an optical multi-service node (by Alcatel-Lucent):
optimizations and FPGA porting (SNCP, MSP-ring, LSP-MPLS and ERP compliant)
-Heating cost allocator: development of an heating measurement system (UNI EN 834
compliant) in C and assembler for Microchip PIC

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), C

11/2006 – 11/2007

-Low latency turbo encoder for Wimax VHDL design and verification and FPGA
implementation (Altera Stratix2)
-VHDL file manipulation tool: development and testing of a software for VHDL file
manipulation

VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language), Quartus (Altera), C