FPGA Frontrunner Meet and Greet

Iain Pearson, Pr. ESC, Microchip Technology Inc.

Principle Embedded Solutions Engineer at Microchip Ltd covering FPGA, IoT, Security and Cloud applications. Ian has been with Microchip for 23years covering everything from 8bit thro the introduction of the 16bit, 32bit networking and wireless products. He managed the Wireless and Networking function team in Europe where he was an advocate of Secure by Design best practices. In the post covid era and the acquisition of Microsemi the opportunity to join the FPGA team arose allowing him to step back 25 years into his youth and re-discover FPGA all over again.

Presentation: SmartHLS - C++ to Verilog Toolsuite

High Level Synthesis tools can provide a significant improvement in productivity over RTL. This is especially the case in systems employing both a processor core and software in combination with FPGA logic. In this session we will look at where the Microchip SmartHLS toolsuite can be best a utilised to gain most benefit and where it is best to leave code running in software

Daniel Ogilvie, Managing Director, SingMai Electronics

Daniel Ogilvie has over 40 years’ experience designing video products, from no-compromise broadcast quality analogue video decoders and encoders, to forensic image analysis products which can still be occasionally glimpsed on the CSI television programs. Daniel has worked for companies, large and small, in the UK, Canada, Thailand and Singapore. Daniel is a senior member of the IEEE. Outside of work, Daniel Ogilvie is the author of three novels and has a Master's degree in Art History.

Presentation: Moving from Altera to Efinix FPGAs.

Key Points:

• The motivation for change – cannot buy Altera FPGAs – trying to buy dodgy parts from China.
• Moving our designs to Efinix – changes needing to be made.
• Changing the mindset – instantiating the PLLs and assigning pins.

Noah Donaldson, Chief Technical Officer, Annapolis Micro Systems

Noah Donaldson is Chief Technical Officer of Annapolis Micro Systems. Noah has worked at Annapolis for over 20 years in several engineering capacities and in business development. Noah has most recently guided the technical direction and product development of Annapolis’ industry-leading 100GbE EcoSystem that is aligned with the SOSA™ Standard. He holds a Physics BS from Carnegie Mellon University.

Presentation: New Technologies & Architectures Solving EW & SIGINT Challenges

Ben Marshall, Principal Firmware Engineer, Leonardo

Ben is a Principle Firmware Engineer within the Advanced Targeting Firmware Team at Leonardo. He works closely with algorithm designers in the Systems Team to implement complex processing functions on FPGAs across multiple projects. Ben has a particular interest in High Level Design and Model Based Design and enjoys driving forwards best practice in these areas.

Presentation: Model Based Design for FPGAs with Matlab & Simulink