From: preece@netcom.com (Darrell Preece)
Subject: Digital HW designer board/ASIC/FPGA 7 years experience
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 03:29:13 GMT

Darrell J. Preece
999 W. Evelyn Terrace #9 Sunnyvale, Ca. 94086
(408) 732 9786 Home, (408) 742 7578 Office
 
Objective:
To work in a professional environment as a digital hardware design
engineer, using my skills and the latest computer design tools to
design, test and integrate electronic hardware.
 
Education:
1985	BSEE Utah State University; Logan, Utah
 
Summary:
Hardware Design:
Board level digital design, FPGA and ASIC design, TTL, ECL and CMOS
logic families, 68000 micro-processor and peripherals, programmable
logic design, multi-layer and wire wrap circuit boards, board/system
level debug, hardware/firmware integration, system level integration.
Documentation including schematic release and technical manuals.
 
Design Environment:
Mentor Graphics design tools, schematic capture, logic and fault
simulation, Apollo, Sun workstations, VMS, UNIX operating systems,
68000 assembly, C, FORTRAN languages, IBM and Macintosh PCs, Xilinx
development software, ABEL pld software.
 
Experience:
September 1985 - present:
Senior Research Engineer
Lockheed Missiles and Space Company
Sunnyvale, Ca.
 
Designed, simulated (functional and fault simulations) and tested an 
11,000 gate, multi-function ASIC using the Mentor Graphics tool set. 
Key member of a small design team responsible for the successful 
development, test and integration of a flight hardware sub-system. 
Received certificate of appreciation and special monetary award for my
work on this project.

Designed and simulated 2 complex Xilinx FPGA designs, using
the PC based XACT Xilinx development software. The FPGAs are used to
receive/transmit, stage and check (CRC check) data from a high speed
(100Mbits/sec) data channel. The chips also provide RAM control
signals and a VME data bus interface. Promoted to Senior Research
Engineer after completing these designs. 

Designed, simulated, integrated, and released a VAX interface circuit 
board. A micro-processor based design utilizing several digital 
hardware areas including PAL/PROM based state machines, serial and 
parallel transmission, synchronous and asynchronous protocols, DMA, 
DRAM, SRAM, FIFO, ASIC, RS232, CRC error checking, and multi-layer 
circuit board design. This is a large design implemented on 3, 15 X 15
multi-layer circuit boards and includes over 300 ICs. The design is 
currently part of a very successful system delivered to several
customer locations.

Coordinated the design and implementation of a System Diagnostic 
Interface. The task involved specifying several off the shelf 
components, designing a custom interface panel and overseeing the 
electrical, mechanical, documentation, and installation activities. 
This design was successfully installed at several customer locations.

Designed, tested and released a ECL data repeater circuit board. 
This design is used in a large, high speed data distribution system 
to de-skew and re-power 4, ECL, 100 Mbit/sec data channels. This 
design was very critical, playing a vital role in the success of the 
project.

Tested, debugged and integrated complex digital hardware. Responsible 
for verification and integration of electronic hardware. Designed 
dedicated test fixtures, wrote 68000 assembly test routines, and
operated sophisticated test equipment (logic analyzers, processor
emulators and oscilloscopes) to verify and debug hardware.
 
Darrell J. Preece 408 732 9786 (hm) 408 742 7578 (wk)

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