Terry R. Young
4 Aiken Street
Derry, NH 03038
Phone: (603) 434-0257
Tools:
 Summary:
DOS
Unix
Windows 98/NT/2000/XP
Synopsys
Simplicity
Altera
Xilinx
Verilog
VHDL
Perl
C++
Basic
HTML
JavaScript
Adobe GoLive
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe ImageReady
Macromedia FlashMX
OrCAD
ViewDraw
Allegro
Timing Designer
 Experienced as a Digital Hardware/Firmware Engineer. Strong technical skills in high-speed digital design, FPGA/ASIC development, Microprocessor based systems, and high-speed backplane designs. Experienced in several environments such as Telecommunications, Defense, and Consumer markets. Strengths include good design practices, attention to detail, creative & analytical skills that enable me to solve complex design issues.
Work Experience:
Avaya, Inc. Concord, MA
Hardware Engineer		 2001-2002
◊ Design of high-speed service provider network switch.
  ● Defined system architecture, redundancy, power & cooling requirements.
  ● Designed midplane and resolved routing, impedance and board thickness requirements.
  ● Interfaced with PCB layout engineer to define constraints, placements, and routing of design.
  ● Consulted with mechanical designers during chassis design phase.
  Successfully built and tested product.
Ellacoya Networks, Inc. Nashua, NH
Hardware Engineer		 1999-2001
Equipment:
Tektronix/HP Scopes
Logic Analyzers
Data I/O Programmers
In-Circuit Emulators
PC's
◊ Designed 48-port Fast Ethernet switch.
   ● Motorola PowerQUICC (MPC860 Integrated microprocessor) based switch using custom switch-fabric chip set.
   ● OrCAD was used to enter design. Interfaced with 3rd party company for PCB layout.
   ● Interfaced with mechanical design engineer to define and design chassis.
   ● Interfaced with contract manufactures to assemble system.
  Successfully buit and Beta tested switch.

◊ Designed a service provider network switch.
   ● Defined system hardware configuration (Midplane design of 12 slots in front; 10 in back.
   ● Worked with power supply vendor to design 48VDC load sharing power supply and input filter.
   ● Defined system connectivity between blades and midplane for a high-speed midplane design.
   ● Interfaced with mechanical engineer to design chassis and air flow/thermal requirements.
   ● Designed fan tray controllers using PIC micro-controllers
   ● Developed utility tools using Visual C++.
  Successfully built and Beta test product.
XIOX Corp, Manchester, NH
Hardware Engineer		 1998
◊ Developed proprietary data transfer protocol that aggregates voice/data channels onto a ring topology network.
  ● Used Altera Flex10K FPGA's.
  ● Core logic was written in Verilog & synthesized, simulated & verified with Simplicity, ModeTech & Altera tools.
  ● Custom synchronous FIFO's were designed to clock data across clock domains
  ● Complex state machines were needed to muliplex voice and data channels.
  Successfully programmed and integrated into system.
RAScom, Inc., Salem, NH
Hardware Engineer		 1996-1998
◊ Designed 8-port ISDN Basic Rate Interface (BRI) for Compaq PC servers.
  ● Plug-n-Play technology was used for PCI and ISA interfaces.
  ● Based on a Motorola MC68360 microprocessor.
  ● Altera (8254) and Xilinx (5204) FPGAs were used to interface to the PC and configure the ISDN ports.
  Sucessfully built and tested product and integrated it into Compaq PC servers.
Cabletron Systems, Inc., Merrimack, NH
Hardware Engineer		 1991-1996
◊ Designed core logic for a LAN MAC address lookup engine for LSI ASIC.
  ● Consisted of an Arbiter to handle lookup requests.
  ● Search engine was based on open hashing algorithm.
  ● Core logic was written, synthesized, simulated & verified in Verilog using Simplicity, VirSim and Motive
      tools.

◊ MMAC+ Backplane Data Transfer Controller design.
  ● Developed high-speed 72-bit time-division-multiplexing (TDM) protocol.
  ● Three Xilinx 4000 series FPGA's were used: 1 for transmit and receive engines and 1 for a multi-level
      arbiter.
  ● Core logic written in Verilog and synthesized, simulated, verified using Synopsys, VirSim and Motive tools.
  Sucessfully integrated into system and later ported over to ASIC's to obtain higher speed.
Magna Computer, Inc., Salem, NH
Hardware Engineer		 1987-1990
◊ Designed floppy disk unit to interface to Wang Workstations.
  ● Z80 based design using a floppy disk controller chip.
  ● Z80 code written in machine language and debugged with a logic analyzer.
  Sucessfully built unit and integrated into system.

◊ Designed Wang compatible workstation.
  ● Analyzed serial data stream from Wang mainframe.
  ● Two Z80's were used: one for the video display and the other to handle the serial data stream.
  ● CPLD's were required to generate video signal with inputs from memory and control logic.
  ● All code written in Z80 assembly language.
  Project was successfully built and integrated.
Sanders Associates, Inc., Nashua, NH
Engineer II		 1982-1987
◊ Developed automated test beds for testing of ECM equipment modules.
◊ Participated in the design of an Integrated Weapons Display (IWD).
  ● Developed serial link to receive data from radar system. Utilizied a TMS30C20 DSP to decode
     manchester 2 link.
  ● Designed, built and programed hardware.
  Successfully integrated into radar system.

◊ Designed, built, and programmed a radar target simulator.
  ● Used 8085 CPU for main processor and an 8051 micro-controller for the serial link.
Education:
◊ Certificate of Web Site Design, Pioneer Computer School of Visual Arts, Hooskett, NH
◊ Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Rivier College, Nashua, NH
◊ U.S. Navy:
   ● Technical Controller School
  ● Advanced Electronics School
  ● Basic Electronics School