Ing. Bruno Fernandes

Coordination of activities, distribution and monitoring of work with the FPGA system team Evaluation and integration of FPGA/ADC related solutions Coordination of installation, firmware deployments, commissioning and support for MicroTCA and other FPGA based systems Coordination of related activities which involve external groups Definition of MicroTCA and Team related workflows Developments and support of FPGA related solutions

Responsible for the laboratory classes in Electronic Circuits and Digital Systems (1st year mandatory class for Physics, Biomedical and Biophysics engineering students)

Analysis of the specification, timing constraints and implementation/development of VHDL modules to perform FFT, Interleaver, Puncture and Demodulator functions suitable for a UWB (Ultra Wideband) receiver based on MB-OFDM modulation. Validation in FPGAs. Target FPGAs: Xilinx Virtex-4 e Virtex-5. Main tools used: Emacs, Xilinx ISE 10, ChipScope 10 and Matlab. Project Ref PTDC/EEA-ELC/67993/2006 Website of the Project: http://esda.inesc-id.pt/UWBR/

Implementation, validation in laboratory and development of low-level software communication for the MICTP module level, a subsystem of the muon detector in the ATLAS experiment. (Dissertation theme for Physics Engineer MSc degree.) Target FPGA: Altera Stratix-II. Main tools used: Xemacs, Altera Quartus II (9.0), ModelSim (6.4a) and Synplify (C-2009.03).