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Space

• Space Edge Processor – Schematic design of a motherboard with a CPU/GPU and two Versals (Ethernet Switch and Coprocessor). FPGA design for hardware testing.  FPGA design for support of CPU/GPU. FPGA design of a Layer 2 Ethernet Switch.
• Space Regenerative Processor – System design contributor (backplane-based system with six unique plug in boards).  Schematic design of dual Ultrascale (Zynq and Virtex) board.  FPGA design for hardware testing. FPGA design for switch logic.  (System included one of the optical modems referenced in the next bullet).
• Free Space Optical Modems – Schematic design of three Ultrascale / Modem ASIC boards.  Oversaw subsequent schematic design of a Versal / Modem ASIC board.  FPGA design or hardware testing on all four boards.  FPGA design for control of Modem ASIC, lasers, CDM, uICR, and TECs.
• Spaceflight Integrated Vehicle Fluids – FPGA design of a redundant communication system spread across a network of SmartFusion2 devices.  FPGA design for hardware testing.
• Camera-guided Moon Lander - FPGA design of video processing system in a Zynq-7000 for the output of a CMOS Image Sensor.
• Moon Rover - Mentored a junior engineer through the FPGA design of glue logic in a ProASIC3.
• Satellite Camera – Mentored a junior engineer through the schematic design of a camera board with 4K imager and Ultrascale FPGA.  FPGA design of housekeeping logic on the camera board.  FPGA design of image-rendering logic for testing.
• FOC Motor Control on Telecommunications Satellite – Schematic design of two DSP / ProASIC3 co-processing boards.  FPGA design for hardware testing.  FPGA design for FOC motor control.

Electronic Design Automation (EDA)

• ASIC Emulator - Schematic design of an ATCA Card with six Arria-10 devices and a Cyclone-V to be used in a fourteen slot chassis for ASIC emulation.  FPGA design for hardware testing.  FPGA design Cyclone-V control of Arria-10 devices.
• Hardware Accelerated Simulator - Schematic design of a Stratix-V and Cyclone-V SOC PCIe Card for hardware accelerated RTL simulation.  FPGA design for hardware testing.  FPGA design for traffic management in Cyclone-V SOC.

Medical

• Fluoroscopy System - FPGA design of an image processing system in a Virtex-5 for a live fluoroscopy system.
• Flow Cytometer - FPGA design of a DSP system in a Spartan-6 for the capture and pre-processing of sample data for a flow cytometer.
• All-in-One Video Router - Schematic design of an 18x18 DVI-D Crosspoint Backplane.  Schematic design of a DVI-D Receive Card, DVI-I Receive Card, HD-SDI & Analog Video Receive Card, DVI-I Transmit Card, HD-SDI Transmit Card, Analog Video Transmit Card, and H.264 Cards to use with the backplane.  FPGA design of control systems and video processing systems in Spartan-3 devices.
• Universal Source Video Converter and Processor - Schematic design of an Arria-II board to accept DVI-I, 3G-SDI, S-Video, and Composite Video and convert to a DVI-D output.  FPGA design of control and video processing system for scaling, frame rate conversion, and overlay.
• HDBaseT Video Extender - Schematic design of two cards used together to extend HDMI, Audio, 10/100 Ethernet, USB, and RS-232 over an HDBaseT link (copper and fiber).

Military

• Quantum Cascade Laser based IR Spectrometer - FPGA design of a control system in a Spartan-6 for wavelength tuning, firing, and cooling of the laser source.  FPGA design of a control and pre-processing system in a Spartan-6 for the detector.
• Aircraft Defense System - FPGA design of a control system in a Spartan-6 for laser firing, laser cooling, and servo control of a brushless motor for a missile jammer in an aircraft.

Commercial/Industrial

• Light-field Camera - FPGA design of an image processing system in a Kintex-7 for a Light-field camera with ten 1.3 Megapixel CMOS Imagers.
• X-ray Baggage Scanner - Schematic design of a Spartan-6 board used in the X-ray generation electronics of an X-ray baggage scanner.  FPGA design of the control system.