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Don Tripp is an experienced professional, technical manager, electronics engineer, hardware designer and software developer with a 40 year history of delivering products and ideas to a variety of markets. Don brings diverse computer hardware and software skills to his customers; including system architecture, software development, electronics hardware design, and ASIC/FPGA development, verification, debug and analysis. His professional knowledge in micro-processing ranges from 8-bit micro-controllers to 64-bit CISC and RISC architectures.
Don is proficient in a variety of software development languages including C, C++, Fortran, assembler languages and others used in embedded microcontroller design applications.
Don’s hardware expertise includes design work on large ASICs and FPGAs (both Xilinx and Altera) as well as complex PLD design, simulation and verification with current EDA technologies using both VHDL and Verilog hardware description languages and test benches. Don has also designed and implemented many micro-controllers/SOC hardware designs performing both the hardware and software development. In the course of these designs Don has also become proficient in many ECAD tools for PCB design including Altium, Allegro PCB, ORCAD, Eagle and others.
As an adjunct professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Don taught embedded system design and VHDL digital design techniques for SOC devices to students at the senior level in RIT’s Computer Engineering Technology department.
Don’s work history includes a 12 year stop at Xerox Corporation’s highly regarded “Skunk Works” operation. During his time there Don provided Xerox research scientists and principal engineers with system architecture, hardware design and software design support in the development of office product prototype models. Many of these prototypes and concepts were eventually taken to the marketplace by Xerox product development organizations.
Don has also worked at other Xerox divisions, Kodak, Intel and many others.
Don worked 7 years as Senior Staff Applications and Hardware Design Engineer for Synaptics Corporation in mobile devices ASIC development. Developed a variety of test platforms for Synaptics TDDI ASICs, DDI ASICs and Fingerprint Sensors ASICs (both capacitive and imaging types). Implemented algorithms for these ASIC types into FPGA platforms for early evaluation and testing. Performed hardware design of complex test systems/boards and wrote firmware/software to support their use. FPGA hardware platforms developed included Zynq FPGAs with dual ARM cores interfaced to custom FPGA fabric. Custom FPGA fabric designs include complex packet protocols (display port, HDMI, MDDI, MIPPI DSI) and proprietary algorithms for Synaptics ASIC applications. Hardware designs included using EDA tools Altium and Allegro PCB/Package tools including schematic capture, PCB layout and IBIS model/SPICE simulation
Don holds both a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.S. in Biology from Syracuse University.