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Independent Contractor R&D Project Manager CAD Support Engineer Field Application Engineer Diagnostic Programmer Manufacturing Engineer Sales Engineer

Zycad Corporation
1985–1986
Austin, TX

Field Applications Engineer

Responsibilities:

Provide pre and post sales technical support for Zycad's family of Logic and Fault hardware accelerators. Open and maintain Zycad office in Austin, TX.

Accomplishments:

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Completed training for Logic and Fault hardware accelerators.

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Designed, opened and maintained Austin office.

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Analyzed and isolated race conditions in MC68000 simulation.

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Solved  zero-delay race conditions in a unit delay paradigm.

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Developed Fortran tools to translate Silos netlists to Zilos netlists.

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Provided VAX & LE system administration support ensuring zero down time. Installed Apollo.

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Completed Hughes Ground Systems Beta FE run of 13+billion events.

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Completed AMD 82C55, ECU, and CADAM benchmark LE simulations.

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Completed Crystal Semiconductor (Cirrus Logic) gate array logic and fault runs of 40 billion events.

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Installed LEs at TRW and Borroughs (LA)

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Co-winner of Zycad's circuit simulation contest.

Tool Set

bulletFortran
bulletZilos and Silos Logic Simulators
bulletVAX, EDT, Apollo.
bulletLE hardware logic simulation accelerator
bulletFE hardware fault logic simulation accelerator.

 

GE Calma/Tegas Systems
1984–1985
Austin, TX

Technical Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

Work as a member of the Sales Development Team with a charter to train and assist the CALMA sales force with their newly acquired CAE software product line. TEGAStation consisted of schematic capture, logic/fault simulation, text and graphics waveform display, test analysis and test pattern generation components integrated on an Apollo hardware platform. In addition, TEGAStation included an interface to the VAX ports of the various components. Interfaces to other CALMA products were also part of the product line.

Accomplishments:

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Completed training with software product line.

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Developed the technical demonstration of the product line.

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System administrator for Apollo's Aegis workstation.

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Demonstrated TEGAStation worldwide as part of a nation wide SWAT team.

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Completed TEGATE customer benchmarks.

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Automated schematic library generation with TEGATE macros.

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Actively participated in team cross-training.

Tool Set

bulletTEGATE Schematic Entry
bulletTEGAS 5 and TEXSIM Logic Simulators
bulletTEXOUT and TSCOPE waveform output display.
bulletTNET, SCICARDS, GDSII and DDM interfaces.
bulletVax 750/780, Apollo AEGIS
URL: http://yaws.com/Resume/field_application.htm