Jim Knodel

Background

About Jim Knodel

SUMMARYSenior Design Engineer with expertise in ASIC/FPGA Design and Verification. Comprehensive experience in PCB design (digital and analog), static timing analysis and closure, logic and algorithm development, firmware development, ASIC prototyping, debug and validation. These designs were used in plasma power supplies for the semiconductor and thin film industry, in tape drives for the data storage industry, timing equipment for the government and for aerospace applications, and controls for quantum computing.HARDWARE: Programmable Logic (Xilinx, Altera, Lattice), Peripheral Devices (SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, SATA, SAS, ATA/IDE, Compact Flash, DDR2, 10GbE, XAUI, SFI), 8/16/32 – bit Embedded Controllers (Intel, Freescale, Microchip, ARM), Instrumentation (Spectrum Analyzer, DMM, Oscilloscope, Logic Analyzer, HBA, Chipscope, IBERT, VIO)LANGUAGES: Verilog, VHDL, Perl, Tcl, Assembly, C/C++SOFTWARE TOOLS: FPGA (Xilinx ISE and Vivado, Synplicity Synplify Pro, Quartus), Verification (Model Sim, VCS, Novas Debussy, Chronology Timing Designer), PCB (Mentor Graphics DxDesigner and PADS, Tango, P-CAD, ORCAD, and Workview Office), Version Control (CVS, Win CVS, Clear Case, VSS), Python, MS Office SYSTEMS: Windows, UNIX, Linux, and FreeBSDSECURITY CLEARANCE: Inactive TS/SCI