Electrical Engineering Developer

Nicholas J. LePar

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OBJECTIVE

Full-time employment in digital design with emphasis on FPGAs starting summer 2018. EDUCATION

University of Wisconsin – Madison September 2013 – May 2018 B.S. Electrical Engineering

Double Major: B.S. Computer Science

Coursework: Advance Microarchitecture, Microprocessors, Digital System Design, OS, Databases EXPERIENCE

Extreme Engineering Solutions – Middleton, WI January 2017 – Present Associate Embedded Engineer – Programmable Logic

Created custom IP, using VHDL following AXI4 specification, to initialize DDR4 memory via FPGA.

Built HDL and Python scripted test benches for IP, system, and board level verification.

Solved critical design error in differential signaling for a high speed signal processing application. WireDelta – Copenhagen, Denmark May 2016 – August 2016 Front-end Developer

Developed front end of WireDelta’s online webshop as a responsive web application.

Designed website utilizing frameworks such as AngularJS, Angular-Material, and Bootstrap.

Led a multi-national team of interns through applications such as Asana and Slack. University of Wisconsin NPM Program – Madison, WI May 2015 – May 2016 Android Developer

Project developer for Android applications designed to help farmers in the field.

Exposure to multiple external Android libraries, multi-threading, and latest Android API. PROJECTS

NEXYS4DDR MicroBlaze System: Created FPGA image using Xilinx IP blocks for the Nexys4DDR Artix-7 FPGA board, capable of running C and communicating over Ethernet.

5-Stage Pipelined Processor: Designed a 5-stage pipelined 16-bit processor in Verilog based on MIPS instruction set.

HDL Logic Analyzer: A functional logic analyzer using Verilog and programmed on Altera DE0-NANO SKILLS

Languages: C, CSS3(Angular-Material, Bootstrap), GitHub, HTML5, Java, JavaScript (Angular, Node, React), Matlab, Python, Verilog (System), VHDL

Programs: Altium, Adobe Suite, Libero, Linux, Mac OS, Microsoft Suite, ModelSim, PADS, Quartus, Synopsys, TeraTerm, Vivado, WaveForms, Windows

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