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Electrical Engineer

FPGA, embedded systems, PCB design, and hardware verification

I develop and validate FPGA and embedded systems, integrating digital logic, firmware, mixed-signal hardware, and board-level interfaces from concept through bring-up and verification.

Technical Work

Featured Projects

Selected work covering FPGA development, embedded systems, mixed-signal hardware, verification, and board-level testing.

Complete Cora Z7 educational platform with its custom peripheral PCB, IMU sensor, and OLED displays

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An educational FPGA and embedded-systems platform developed by an eight-person senior design team using the Digilent Cora Z7. I served as project manager and master XSA integration owner, bringing together AXI-connected GPIO, SPI, I2C, and PWM peripherals, embedded software, simulation, hardware deployment, verification, and an autonomous robot extension.

  • SystemVerilog
  • Cora Z7
  • AXI4-Lite
  • Vivado
  • Embedded C
  • FPGA Verification
  • Autonomous Robotics
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AI-Assisted Engineering Portfolio

A living Astro and GitHub Pages project I use to learn AI-assisted development, VS Code, HTML, CSS, Git, debugging, accessibility, and iterative web design while documenting my engineering work.

  • Astro
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • VS Code
  • GitHub Pages
  • AI-Assisted Development
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Vivado waveform simulation of the 256-bit matrix soft processor execution engine

256-Bit Matrix Soft Processor

A modular SystemVerilog processor built around a shared 256-bit tri-state bus, with dedicated matrix and integer ALUs, a multi-cycle execution engine, and automated Vivado/XSim verification.

  • SystemVerilog
  • Vivado
  • XSim
  • Processor Architecture
  • Finite-State Machines
  • Matrix ALU
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Mixed-signal ballistocardiogram data-acquisition PCB

Ballistocardiogram (BCG) Data-Acquisition PCB

Mixed-signal PCB development, hardware bring-up, signal validation, troubleshooting, and cost-reduction work for a ballistocardiogram (BCG) data-acquisition platform.

  • PCB Design
  • Mixed Signal
  • Oscilloscope
  • Validation
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