Gordon McGregor

About Gordon McGregor

Gordon McGregor is a Machine Learning and Design Verification Engineer at Apple. He received a Bachelor\'s degree, Master\'s degree and PhD from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, in 1993, 1994 and 2005. Mostly these were in electronics, with a bias towards dynamic reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and methodology improvements to make dynamic reconfiguration a practical, deployable reality.His particular areas of interest are in functional verification techniques and electronic system level design along with the application of the lessons learned in the field of machine learning and software engineering to the world of hardware design and verification. Specialties: Electronic System Level (ESL) and functional verification methodologies, Machine Learning, ARM processor IP and multimedia architecture development.

Experience

1. Design Verification Engineer

   Apple

   Nov 2015 — Present

   GPU Verification, Coverage Methodologies, Machine Learning for design methodologiesWe are hiring at the Apple Hardware Design Center in Austin, TX.Please see Apple Jobs for a listing of positions - or get in touch directly if you are interested in GPU DV or ML for DV/ EDAWe are also hiring for ML roles for methodology development : https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/20•••••55

Education

• University of Strathclyde

  B.Eng. (Hons, 1st class), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  1989 — 1993

• University of Strathclyde

  M.Sc., Telecommunications, DSP, digital control

• University of Strathclyde

  PhD, Dynamically Reconfigurable Systems

  1995 — 2005

Skills

• Embedded Systems
• Eda
• Hardware Architecture
• Uvm
• Fpga
• Asic
• Microprocessors
• Soc
• Embedded Linux
• Open Verification Methodology
• Ovm
• Functional Verification
• Debugging
• System on a Chip (Soc)
• Systemverilog
• Verilog
• Digital Signal Processors
• Arm
• Rtl Design
• Python
• Pyhvl