Engineer Design

Morris Zakaim

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Bayside, NY *1361

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Position Desired: Digital Circuit Design Engineer

Education:

MS in Electrical Engineering, May 1996, Polytechnic University,

Farmingdale, New York

BS in Electrical Engineering, computer option, May 1991, Tufts University,

Boston, Massachusetts

Summary of Skills:

- Digital and high-speed board design.

- FPGA design, Actel, Xilinx and Altera, VHDL, ModelSim, Aldec, Synplicity,

HyperLynx.

- Experience with VIEWlogic, Orcad, PADS, Cadence and Mentor Graphics

schematic capture tools.

- Microcontroller and microprocessor system design and programming using

PowerPC 405GP, MPC860, MC68360, MC68HC11 and I87C52.

- Programming in C and assembly.

- Experience with logic analyzers, emulators, simulators and digital

scopes.

- DO-254 compliant documentation using Telelogic Doors and SourceSafe.

Work Experience (Contract positions):

June 2009 - January 2010

Contract engineer at Telephonics Corporation, Farmingdale, New York.

Responsibilities:

- Designed a fully automated VHDL testbench for an FPGA implemented with a

Xilinx Virtex IV. Testbench included VME bus and Analog Devices Blackfin

DSP processor read/write procedures as well as interrupt status and

acknowledge procedures. These proceudures were used to exercise the FPGA's

proprietary functions such inter-processor communication, audio warning

generation, remote panel control using UARTS and to mimic software

execution. The testbench also provided automatic verification of the

simulation results and generated error messages to the simulator log

window. This testbench was extensively used for regression testing of the

FPGA design during development.

- Contributed to the FPGA development by correcting some of the errors

discovered using above testbench.

March 2008 - December 2008

Contract engineer at Telephonics Corporation, Farmingdale, New York.

Responsibilities:

- Designed a front panel controller board. The design included switching

and linear regulators for various voltages used by on-board FPGAs, two

Xilinx Virtex IV FPGAs, one to read switch status and control the LEDs and

a character display on the front panel, the other to monitor switches and

LEDs independently from the controller FPGA. Both FPGAs interfaced with

the rest of the system through an RS485 serial bus. The controller board

also had interface circuitry for a number of discrete input and outputs as

well as a CODEC. Various test connectors and a JTAG test and

configuration connector was also provided.

- Designed a CPLD in VHDL for an audio board to control audio

routing/switching and communicate with the rest of the system using a

serial link. Tested the design with a VHDL testbench and 100% code

coverage. Optimized the design from 94% utilization downto 78% to meet

maximum resource usage requirements.

- Designed three VHDL modules used by other FPGAs in the system. Designs

included serial transmitter/receivers as well as simulation models for

EPROMs and dual-port RAMs. All modules were simulated with VHDL

testbenches with 100% code coverage.

- Documented above designs in compliance with DO-254 requirements using

Telelogic DOORS. Other documents (Visio, MS Word) were maintained on

SourceSafe.

May 2006 - August 2007

Contract engineer at JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. Responsibilities:

- Provided services in areas of schematic capture, design review and test

of a jitter/wander generation/measurement product.

March 2005 - April 2006

Contract engineer at Northrop Grumman, Laser Systems, Apopka, Florida.

Responsibilities:

- Created Design Requirement Documents and Interface Control Documents for

various circuit boards.

- Created the system interconnect schematic for a laser target-

location/designation system.

- Created a test harness schematic for above mentioned system.

- Designed circuit boards to replace existing wire-wrapped boards in

multiple test fixtures.

- Re-designed a test fixture for one of the production boards to be

delivered to manufacturer for use in production testing.

October 2003 - January 2005

Contract engineer at Northrop Grumman, Baltimore, Maryland.

Responsibilities:

- Designed a PMC Mezzanine card with a PCI controller, FiberChannel, RS422,

RS485 and ECL interfaces. The board also had an FPGA and FLASH EEPROMs.

- Helped test newly manufactured boards for a different program.

September 2002 - February 2003

Contract engineer at Unitec Electronics, Jessup, Maryland.

Responsibilities:

- Designed and tested two boards for Unitec's next generation carwash entry

system. One was the interface board between the system CPU board and a

number of other devices such as thermal printer, proximity detector, TFT

LCD display, shock sensor, keypad, mouse and keyboard, siren, magnetic

card reader, RFID reader, ... . It also had two DC/CD converter circuits

and a stereo audio amplifier circuit. The second board was a relay board

that interfaced to the carwash system to control different operation

cycles.

November 2000 - February 2002

Contract engineer at Internet Photonics, Inc. Shrewsbury, NJ (a Lucent

Technologies spin-off), Responsibilities:

- Designed an MPC860 microcontroller board with Flash, SDRAM, FPGA,

10/100Mbps Ethernet, ... as a general-purpose controller board.

- Designed portions of an FPGA used on an optical board. Functions

implemented included I2C bus interface, EEPROM interface, and other

control/glue logic. Also, captured the schematic for the complete board

and another optical board with similar functions.

- Reviewed the design of a PowerPC405GP board and compiled design

verification test document for the board.

July 2000 - November 2000:

Contract engineer at Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, New Jersey.

Responsibilities:

- Trouble shot an existing 10 Gigabit/Second SERDES board. Designed a new

version of the board (under supervision of more senior engineers) using an

Altera FPGA and other components. Also, designed the internal FPGA

circuitry.

June 2000:

Contract engineer at DRS Photronics, Inc., Oakland, New Jersey.

Responsibilities:

- Partially designed an Altera FPGA for high-speed video applications.

March 31 - April 4 2000:

Contract engineer at Biolectron, Inc., Allendale, New Jersey.

Responsibility:

- Looked into the feasibility of re-creating an obsolete digital IC in form

of an ASIC or FPGA. The job was then out-sourced to another company.

September 99 - December 99:

Contract engineer at Tellabs Corporation, Hawthorne, New York.

Responsibilities:

- Helped test the "Main Administrative Module" of Tellabs TITAN 6100

Optical Transport System (OTS). The board was a combination of a mother

board and a daughter board. The daughter board had four MPC860 systems and

a number of Ethernet LANs. The mother board had more Ethernet LANs and

power supply. Both boards had XILINX FPGAs.

- Compiled a "High Level Design Document" for that board.

June 97 - April 99:

Contract engineer at Telephonics Corp., Farmingdale, New York.

Responsibilities:

- Designed various digital boards and FPGAs for different applications such

as control panels and interface circuitry to military encryption devices.

- Wrote documentation for above designs.

Work Experience (Full-time positions)

September 96 - April 97:

Hardware/Software engineer at InterDigital Communication Corporation,

Melville, New York. Responsibilities:

- Reviewed and tested an MC68360 microcontroller board. The board included

several FPGA and EPLDs as well as 6 identical daughter boards.

- Simulated, tested and modified two of the FPGA designs. Wrote test

routines in C and assembly.

- Wrote automatic test routines for production testing of the board.

October 94 - September 96:

Design engineer at Telephonics Corporation, Huntington, New York.

Responsibilities:

- Designed an FPGA to provide serial interface between an I8088 board and a

switch panel. The switch panel included push-button, rotary and toggle

switches as well as numerous indicator LEDs.

- Designed an FPGA to provide serial interface between an I8088 board and

an analog board. The analog board used digitally controlled DAC 8840's and

analog switches.

- Designed FPGAs for test fixtures and other applications.

July 92 - October 94:

Design engineer at Smar Research Corporation, Ronkonkoma, New York.

Responsibilities:

- Designed a family of digital communication controllers. These ICs

implement the physical layer of Fieldbus communication standard. Each IC

included a Manchester transmitter and receiver as well as microprocessor

glue logic. The later members of the family provided memory management and

DMA control logic.

- Designed a digital switch and Fieldbus line arbitrator. This IC monitors

two Fieldbus lines and outputs the first active line.

- Interfaced above ICs to an HC11 microcontroller system and developed

software for the system to transmit and receive on a Fieldbus line.

- Designed an FSK transmitter and receiver based on Bell-202 standard.

- Wrote data books and application notes for above ICs.

November 91 - April 92:

C programmer at ColorCode Unlimited Corporation, Newton, Massachusetts. A

startup company involved in developing a new method of high-density

information storage using colored dots. Responsibilities:

- Created a demo program that partially demonstrates ColorCode's ideas. It

involved computer graphics, text processing and encryption.

- Put together an artificial vision system using a PC, a CCD camera, an

image processing board and a TV set. Also programmed the system to capture

images and store them in a file.

References: Furnished upon request.

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