Consulting Services

Discover the breadth of our skillset that help make first pass silicon a reality.

Architecture

Expertly crafted behavioral models for use in performance analysis and functional verification

Design

RTL that is both easy to understand and highly synthesizable, produced by using well-honed principles

Verification

Coverage driven testbenches utilizing modern HVLs to create a thorough and complete verification suite

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Reviews

Sarge has participated in hundreds of design reviews, and knows what to look for to prevent trouble down the road.  Sarge is adept at spotting things such as incomplete test plans, poor Verilog coding styles, and troublesome coverage models. Finding these issues in the review process prevents much more work finding them later down the line.

Documentation

Poor documentation leads to poor designs.  Sarge knows the importance of good documentation that is easy to read and easy to understand.  He’s been educated in technical writing, and makes sure the important points are well noted in the documentation. 

Training

Sarge has instructed numerous engineers throughout his career, and thoroughly enjoys teaching. Whether it be instructing some industry veterans on an HVL, or teaching some new grads about the overall design process, Sarge is there to help get your team up to speed.

Management

In his full time and consulting employment, Sarge has been a manager of several teams, and knows how to maximize the talents of each of the engineers.

Tools

Languages
  • Specman
  • SystemVerilog/UVM
  • Vera
  • C/SystemC
  • Makefile
  • Shell scripting
  • Perl/Awk/Sed
Protocols
  • USB
  • PMBus
  • SVI3
  • SVID
  • I2C
  • SPI
  • UART
  • PCI-Express
  • Hypertransport
  • AMBA AXI/AHB/APB
Architectures/OS
  • x86
  • ARM
  • Unix/Linux
  • MacOS X