Boris Porotsky

Experience

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  Bar-On R&D

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1996

  SW engineer

  FW, signal processing of the sampled accelerations and ultra-sound signals

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  NXP acquires Freescale Semiconductor

  Jan 1997 - Jan 1998

  DSP engineer

  Vocoders, DSP assembler

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  Terayon Communications

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2001

  DSP engineer and algorithms developer

  Design and assembler implementation of variable constellation multi-tone(VCMT) cable modem proprietary receiver - the complete project lifecycle.QAM up-converter design (fixed point simulation and VLSI implementation spec) for the upstream of DOCSIS and ETSI-DVB Simulation of the MMSE pilot estimator (Wireless OFDM) Filters design for the upstream modulator (DOCSIS and ETSI-DVB) Fixed point simulation for the TDMA QAM (upstream) proprietary burst receiver (DOCSIS) Analysis of the VoIP vocoders Show less

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  LSI Corporation of America

  Jan 2001 - Aug 2002

  DSP and system engineer

  WB-CDMA Matlab simulations(channels decoding), TFCI decoding, PSCH and SSCH detection (assembler code implementation), proprietary DSP benchmarks design.

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  Digital Verification

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2006

  Senior DSP & H/W engineer

  Image processing algorithms design & optimization (assembler). File system (for flash memory) design and implementation.TI C64 SW for the banknote counters - the full project lifecycle. DSP SW & HW integration.

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  Etherwaves AI

  Jan 2006 - Sept 2006

  Contractor - Senior Algorithms & DSP engineer

  Design Wireless digital radio (DAB) physical layer algorithms.Implementation and optimization DSP SW on C and assembler for BlackFin Analog Devices digital signal processor - the complete project lifecycle

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  Xperi Inc.

  Sept 2006 - Apr 2011

  Senior DSP/SW eng.

  Image Signal Processing (ISP) for RAW images - EDOF - extended depth of field technology.Multiplatform embedded(ARM) - digital signal processors projects.Linux Device driver - Video4Linux2ISP algorithms design and implementation.

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  Optical Design Laboratory Limited

  Jan 2009 - Apr 2011

  FW ENGINEER – contracted

  designed FW for military standard (MISRA C) infrared optical systems for Carl Zeiss – the complete project life-cycle

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  Apical Limited (now part of Arm)

  Apr 2011 - Jan 2013

  SENIOR SW designer

  Firmware development for Apical's ISP pipeline for different CMOS sensors: AWB, anti-shading correction, Auto-focus, Auto Iris.

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  Keysight Technologies

  Feb 2013 - Apr 2013

  SW developer, contractor

  Test equipment for LTE PHY, support and bug fixes

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  ADVANCED FW/SW SOLUTIONS LIMITED

  Feb 2013 - now

  Director

  Design services in Embedded SW/FW, Linux embedded, Yocto build system & device drivers (PCI,CSI & etc') - bespoke SW/HW complete project life cycle, IoT FW on 32 bits MCU NXP, STM32, Microchip with power consumption optimizations for battery long life, BLE,NFC and LoRA peripherals integration for data transfer, FatFS and USB (device) integration and debugging for IoT based on LPC55S69,Cortex-Mx, ARM multi-cores SoC bring up, DSP and microprocessor embedded boards bring up, algorithms for Digital Communications, Image & Video Processing, GPU OpenCL/CUDA, Audio Modem(similar to GSM eCall), Embedded FW for motor control. Show less

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  Qualcomm

  Apr 2013 - Jun 2016

  SW engineer, Staff

  LTE and GERAN Firmware development:-- LTE modem - reporting Channel State Information block -- MultiSIM GERAN modem - the complete FW project lifecycle

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  Karma Touch Ltd.

  Jul 2016 - Sept 2016

  CUDA developer, consultant

  Implementation proprietary Virtual Reality & Image processing algorithms on CUDA , Matlab simulations

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  Sycurio

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2017

  Audio modem developer, consultant

  R & D of Proprietary in-band Audio modem for encrypted data transmitting over the voice path during Mobile Call (similar to GSM eCall): Matlab/C++/Phyton simulations and embedded C implementation, Android app development - the complete project lifecycle

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  OCZ Storage Solutions - A Toshiba Group Company

  Aug 2017 - May 2019

  FW developer, contractor

  FW development for OCZ Toshiba core product - Solid State Drive (SSD) M.2 and SATA interface.Hard Real Time proprietary operating system for ARM multi-core architecture. FW for control of POWER MANAGEMENT IC (PMIC).SSD Life time logging implementation. SPI and I2C. SSD Command Line Online Update Tool (CLOUT) and proprietary SSD update tool development.

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  Baker Hughes

  May 2019 - Apr 2020

  FW developer, consultant

  C++ FW NXP/Freescale Kinetis CORTEX-M0/M4 development for the oil and gas industry equipment.R&D new Wireline and Downhole tools, MQTT messaging

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  VIAVI Solutions

  May 2020 - May 2022

  RF SW/FW developer, consultant

  C++/C FW and RF SW development for industrial 5G network test equipment, proprietary cards based on UltraScale+ FPGA with mixed signal analog/digital boards for 5G NR RF , RF SW for initial clock acquisition (PLL lock), AFC, amplifier calibration and manufacturing tests. Linux embedded/BusyBox, MCAP device drivers (PCI bus) debugging for downloading FPGA image. MicroBlaze Xilinx soft core FW design and implementation of SPI driver, HAL API for AD9082 configuration.

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  Domino Printing Sciences

  Jun 2022 - Nov 2022

  SW consultant

  C++(17)/Python IoT EtherNet/IP SW development for printers. RabbitMQ & MQTT Mosquitto, containers debugging IoT devices on Raspberry Pi and Hilscher.

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  Defence company, non-disclosure

  Nov 2022 - Aug 2023

  SW/FW consultant

  C/C++(17)/Python embedded, Yocto Linux custom builds (for NXP SOC on SODIMM modules) including Linux read only file system, GPIO real time processing, PMBus/I2C, SNMP, NTP, VAS penetration testing. Yocto build customization for GPIO related configuration, mounting and running all user space executables in RAM FS and final updating root FS to be read only.

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  Safehinge Primera

  Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  SBC Linux Yocto consultant

  IoT, Yocto builds for Raspberry Pi OS and Rockchip SBC, DSP, digital communication