Douglas W. Brown
email doug@DougAndJean.com
home page http://www.DougAndJean.com

Experience/Work History

• 2007 - present: OptNgn Software
  • Software Architect
  • Hardware code libraries for FPGA acceleration in embedded systems and high-performance computing
• 2005 - 2007: Micro Magic
  • datapath technology mapping
  • automatic design-rule extraction from foundry report
  • automatic schematic generation from verilog
• 2003 - 2005: NVIDIA
  • verilog compilation
  • automatic datapath placement, sizing, buffering
  • layout display
  • congestion analysis
• 2002 - 2003: Real Intent
  • clock domain boundary crossing analysis
  • gui for formal verification analyses
• 2001 - 2002: Juniper Networks
  • datapath design
  • datapath layout
  • datapath verification
• 1998 - 2001: Micro Magic
  • datapath design
  • datapath layout
  • datapath verification
  • schematic editor enhancements
  • formal equivalence checking tool development
• 1997 - 1998: Portland Software
  • encrypted server-server and server-client communication
• 1996 - 1997: Summit Design
  • automatic board test program compression
• 1995 - 1996: Translogic Technology
  • formal equivalence checking tool development
• 1994 - 1995: Lattice Semiconductor
  • mixed-signal simulation tool development
• 1988 - 1994: Test Systems Strategies
  • board test software
  • waveform editor development
  • release management
  • software for release management
• 1984 - 1988: Tektronix
  • module generator project manager
  • summer AI student supervision
• 1981 - 1984: Metheus
  • analog and digital simulation gui development
• 1977 - 1981: Tektronix
  • microprocessor design aid software development
  • simulation support for corporate ecad
• 1970 - 1977: University of Illinois
  • various software tasks contributing to development of PLATO system
  • schematic editor development
  • analog simulation gui development

Publications

• C++, The Core Language , co-authored with Gregory Satir, O'Reilly & Associates, 1995.
• Lex and Yacc , co-authored with Tony Mason, O'Reilly & Associates, 1990.
• A State-Machine Synthesizer in the 18th Design Automation Conference Proceedings, June, 1981.

Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• M.S. in Electrical Engineering, June 1976
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering, June 1974