Snaphaan Consultancy

Delivering Consultancy in:

Digital design/verification and Design Data Management

for ASIC and FPGA

HW Design Data Management (File- and Module based)

Worked at & with:

PHILIPS Telecom & SemiCondutors -- ST-Ericsson -- NXP -- ASML


Dassault -- Altera -- Xilinx -- JTAG-Technologies -- UNIX -- tcl -- VHDL -- Verilog -- BSDL -- IP-XACT -- C -- Bash -- Ansible -- SVN -- git -- DesignSync

Worked on:

PCB design + JTAG Boundary-Scan

SoC architectures, Automated system builders (tcl - based & Vendor specific)

ASIC & FPGA Front-end Design, Verification, Synthesis, DfT, BoundaryScan,

ASIC DB- and Release- management.

Acting roles:

Digital Design- , Verification Engineer, Design Database manager

Project- and Team-lead, Tool- and Component-Vendor Liaison

Design Data Mngt - Business Analist / Solution Consultant

Who am I:

My name is Paul Snaphaan

I have a background in Digital IP and System design, from Specification - Design - Verification - Implementation (Synthesis + Constraining) to Validation.

Created scripts to interface with various CAD-tools.

But also was a liaison to component- and tool-verdors, and worked as team- and project-lead.


I work in close cooperation with IT departments and Business-teams.

My current focus in on FPGA development (Design + Verification) and validation line interfacing

  • Defining and Adding features to exsisting design

  • Create verification tasks usable in simulation and on real HW

  • Updating documentation and presentations


My recent focus was also on Design Data Management for ASIC development...

  • Creation Module-based Design-Data Management. Development, Implementation, scripted commands.

  • Creation of guidelines, Creation and execution of Training (Online and On-site)

  • Enhancing Access-Control, to improve AC debugging and Auditing


Recent Experience:

  • ASIC and FPGA (Digital) design & Verification
    a.o. Xilinx Zync US+

  • Validation of line-interfaces

  • Design Database Management

Tools:

    • DesignSync (File- & Module-based)

Defining and building Work-flow on Module-based environment, for Designers and Integrators

    • SVN / GIT

Skills:

    • Data-flow control (scripted support)

    • AccessControl (DesignSync)

Consultancy Services:

  • Digital Hardware design/verification: For new and existing IP and systems

    • For FPGA design

    • For ASIC design

  • On Hardware Design-Data Management: Support the way to integrate the chosen tool into the work-flow

Input to this WoW are: Data-structure (both Workspace and at the Data-Vault/Repository), type of users and tools, desired level of automation

  • Creation of documentation and Training on the chosen DDM work-flow

  • Project guidance and support