Jamil J. Weatherbee

Background

About Jamil J. Weatherbee

Embedded systems development with an emphasis on hard real-time safety critical applications. Focus areas include robotics, unmanned aircraft systems, cryptography, signal processing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning and electromechanics. Board level schematic and mechanical design. Realization of electronic control systems and general embedded firmware and FPGA IP development. FPGA and ARM Cortex based embedded hardware and software design on Xilinx, Lattice, TI and ST silicon. Wireless, optoelectronics, mixed signal, analog and power electronics. Firmware development in C, C++ and assembly for networking, control, video and DSP applications. UNIX/Linux/BSD system level application and kernel device driver development. Analysis and development of electromagnetic actuators. Development of cryptographic software and hardware including probabilistic circuit design, code and data obfuscation, and symmetric encryption/digital signature implementation. Development of crypto accelerators, deep learning hardware and video processing IP. Register transfer level programmable logic design in VHDL and ESL/high level synthesis in C, C++ and SystemC. LISP software and algorithm development. Design of custom preemptive and time-triggered real time operating systems (RTOS) and instruction set architectures (ISA). Development and low-level debug of Wi-Fi, BLE, Ethernet, CAN, UART, I2C, I2S, SDIO and SPI network and device connectivity. AMBA AXI based hardware IP and SoC integration. System level architectural development and specification. MATLAB/Simulink/Stateflow and SPICE based system modeling and design. OrCAD hierarchical schematic development. Board level bring-up and debugging with oscilloscopes, logic analyzers and spectrum analyzers. SI/RF debug and EMC compliance.