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Frederic COUTANT
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Domaine des Oliviers n°71 11, chemin des Comtesses FR - 06130 GRASSE
DSP / FPGAs engineer SKILLS Signal
Algorithms development (filtering, adaptive filtering, beam forming, pulse compression, space-time equalization, noise reduction, windowing, detection, …). Time and frequency data analysis Hardware PCB specification/conception, VHDL synthesis and simulation. ASIC front-end Real-time prototyping on FPGAs (fixed point, Matlab/C model validation) Real-time processing and acquisition platform setup on PCs Software Matlab/Octave, C/C++, MFC (Visual Studio)/GTK, revision control (CVS, SVN, GIT), ... VHDL : - Synthesis : Sinplify Pro, ISE - Simulation : Modelsim, Active HDL FPGA & SOC : Virtex 2V2000, 2VP50, V4FX, V6, Spartan 3ADSP, Spartan6, EDK 8-12 Management Commons-based peer production management, recruitment and long-term trainee follow-up Langues French native speaker, fluent in English
WORK EXPERIENCE 2007-
2000-2007
Engineer IXWaves (France) – Underwater acoustics R&D center My personal contribution is to make the innovation possible thanks to FPGAs capabilities Hardware Prototyping and pre-production of echosounder and radar ; sea proven tests Algorithms development, signal conditioning on FPGA (2xSpartan3ADSP, Virtex4) : Up to 128 parallel channels from ADC to pulse compression through beam-forming and demodulation with full programmable emitter and gain management Applications Multibeam echosounder Mills cross based, stabilized with tiltable beams (FPGA, GPU, Ethernet) with functions : 3D sea floor mapping, biomass detection, sediment classification, Doppler processing. Fishing echosounder, acoustics barrel, parametric modem. Radar overlay radar with ARPA / AIS functionalities. Management Commons-based peer production management (7 entities), financial files set-up, subcontract follow-up Engineer IMRA Europe (France) - AISIN Group - Automotive R&D center Improving wireless signal quality for embedded systems in vehicles My personal contribution is to set-up the prototyping technologies inside the company Signal Algorithm design, performance evaluation on simulated and real data (Matlab) Prototyping Fixed-point and VHDL development for real-time prototyping based on FPGA's Xilinx 2VP50. Processing and acquisition real-time C programming Test Support to ASIC test development, bit exact validation with a fixed point C model Size and consumption reduction Client interface Test setup and technical transfer to customers, including trips to Japan Applications Equalization and synchronization for Analog TV (2 patents , 1 publication), interference rejection for Remote Keyless Entry (1 patent), equalization and synchronization for Digital TV (DVB-T, ISDB-T), noise removal for speech
EDUCATION 2010 2006 2005 2004 2003 1997-2000
Signal processing on Spartan 6, MVD (France) System On Chip : PowerPC System Implementation and EDK 8.1, MVD (France) Advanced programming in C, Learning tree (France) Digital signal processing for FPGA’s, Institute for System Level Integration ISLI (Scotland) VHDL progromming (logic synthesis, simulation), Multi Video Design (France) Engineering school - Polytechnique de Nantes, IRESTE (44) - Postgraduate degree in Telecommunication and Radar - Master’s degree in electronic systems, real-time and micro-waves systems
INTEREST & ACTIVITIES Swimming, running
