Dick Pado

Dick Pado is 40 year veteran of the electronics industry and a senior engineering staff member who has worked with Patmos Engineering Services for the past five years. Dick specializes in FPGA Verification, including designing FPGA test benches and BFMs, along with creating tests, test procedures documents, and test results documents (including traceability matrices). Prior to his work at Patmos, Dick worked at a variety of different companies where he designed and/or verified ASICs and FPGAs. Dick has experience and/or education in VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog and OVM. He has worked with Xilinx (ISE/ChipScope) and Altera (Quartus/SopcBuilder/SignalTap) FPGA devices and development environments and is also familiar with MATLAB. What follows is a sample of some of the types of projects Dick has worked on:

• Numerous DO-254 Verification projects
• Ethernet MAC integrated into a 16 bit MCU
• FFT/IFFT ASIC
• USB game controller ASIC
• Graphics Tiling and PixelOperator ASICs
• 2D Graphics overlay board
• Dual port memory card
• ESIFA board
• Several processor chipset ASICs
• Inter-processor Communications design
• Data Concentrator
• Multidrop communications ASIC
• 757 Flat Slat Electronics Unit