About

I’m a computer engineer working in the securities and financial services industry at the moment, primarily developing C++ software.  I worked in Japan in the wireless telecom industry for five years, and that is where the “global” part of the blog title comes from.  I’m working on my MSEE degree in the evenings, and I hope to eventually work with FPGAs or ASICs in the future.

My technical interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

• FPGAs, ASICs, programmable logic
• Distributed and networked systems: CORBA, Erlang/OTP
• Functional programming: Erlang, Haskell
• C++ software development
• Communications systems, telecommunications and data networks, particularly 3G/4G wireless systems

I’m interested in building systems more than anything, and this is my notebook for jotting down ideas or streaming thoughts about technology that I encounter while trying to build systems.  Hopefully some of my entries will be useful to someone out there!

FPGA credentials:

I was first exposued to programmable logic in 2001 through my course work as an undergraduate.  I started with PALs/GALs, and then moved onto CPLDs and entry-level FPGAs.  I still have a soft spot for Altera Max Plus II.  After moving into the professional world, I’ve exclusively worked with Xilinx tools and FPGAs.

Devices: Virtex5, Spartan3, Lattice XP2
HDLs: VHDL, Verilog
Tools: Xilinx ISE, ModelSim, NC Verilog, Synopsys