Andreas Schmidt

About Andreas Schmidt

Field-) Applications / Technical Marketing / Product Management / Systems / ASIC / FPGA / IPEngineer / Manager in an innovative, industry-leading company Summary- Experience with VHDL/Verilog - synthesis /simulation /ASIC design tools since 1994- Gate level simulation experience since 1992- Experience with XILINX FPGA technology and tools since 1989- Circuit and system design experience since 1984- Experience with high speed serial connections (SerDes links) for inter-chip communication and distributed parallel processing technology since 1991- Double Data Rate (DDR) design experience since 1992- Computer / system / network administrator experience since 1983 (UNIX, Windows)- Pro-audio engineering, sound reinforcement, and music technology experience since 1986Specialties- Ability to write highly portable, parameterized, modular, and scalable code in Verilog/VHDL- ASIC to FPGA, FPGA to ASIC, IP migration exp- Strong team building, facilitation, and mentoring skills with the ability to work with cross functional teams- German engineering education, precision, strong work ethics- Diligent project management, analytical problem solving, facilitative leadership skills- Dual citizenship, multi-lingual- International working, presentation, conference experience

Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Broadcom

   Mar 2012 — Present · San Jose, CA, US

   Enterprise Network Switching

Education

• Ruhr University Bochum

  MSEE, Electrical Engineering, physics

  1999

Skills

• Sound Reinforcement
• Synthesizers
• System Design
• Xilinx Ise
• Rtl Development
• International Project Management
• Pcb Design
• Development of Training Materials
• Rtl Design
• Digital Audio
• Fpga
• Pll
• Lan Switching
• 10g Ethernet
• Technical Leadership
• Training Presentations
• Electrical Engineering
• Crosstalk
• Jitter
• Unstructured Data
• High-Speed Design
• International Leadership
• Lan-Wan
• Systems Analysis
• Logic Synthesis
• Technical Documentation
• Vhdl
• Simulations
• Editorial Project Management
• Xilinx
• Network Architecture
• Mixed Signal
• Firmware
• Systems Engineering
• High Speed Digital
• Semiconductors
• Leadership
• Signal Integrity
• Professional Audio
• Verilog