RANDY NORRIS


NORgate Engineering & Assoc.
1244 Calle Ultimo
Oceanside, CA 92056
(760)429-5522
NorrisNor@aol.com

SPECIALIZATION

SERVICES

I have a software/hardware development lab at home with the following capabilities:

Software: Altera Quartus and Xilinx ISE and Vivado for FPGA design, Keil compiler for 8051 C and assembly language development, Microsoft C/C++ compiler, ORCAD for schematic capture, compilers for VHDL and Verilog development, MATLAB for digital signal processing, MATHCAD for mathematical calculations.

Test Equipment: Logic Analyzer, Oscilloscope, and DMV

Hardware: Programming Capability for Altera and Xilinx FPGA's, programming capability for EEPROM's, 8051 hardware/software development system

EXPERIENCE

President, NORgate Engineering & Associates, Oceanside, CA

Digital Designer, Netlist, Irvine, CA

Worst Case Circuit Analysis, Hewlett Packard, Rancho Bernardo, CA

Contractor, Space Micro, San Diego, CA

Staff Engineer, Ipitek, Carlsbad, CA

Contractor, Cadence Telecommunications Design Group, Santa Barbara, CA

Member of Technical Staff, Bristol Systems, Orange, CA

Contractor, Hughes Missile Systems Group, Tucson, Arizona

Senior Member of Technical Staff, TRW, Redondo Beach, CA

Consultant, Workstation Technologies, Irvine, CA

Member of Technical Staff, Rockwell Semiconductor Products Division, Newport Beach, CA

EDUCATION

BS Degree Computer Science University of California at Riverside Graduated Phi Beta Kappa with High Honors

MS Computer Science UCLA

MS Thesis: Applications of the Fast Fourier Transform to Two Dimensional Digital Signal Processing

Engineer Degree (PhD without dissertation) Electrical Engineering, USC, Specialization area: integrated circuits and device physics

PUBLICATIONS

"Microprogrammed Circuits for Focal Plane Array Control", Rockwell Electro-Optical Center, Anaheim, CA,

"An 8 Neuron 16 Synapse Integrated Circuit for Pattern Recognition", Rockwell Semiconductor Products Division, Newport Beach, CA

"Evaluation of RISC Architectures", Rockwell Space and Satellite Electronics Division, Anaheim, CA

Presentation: "Systems on a Programmable Logic Chip", IEEE WESCON, 1998

ASSOCIATIONS

IEEE

AFCEA

NDIA

UCLA Alumni Association

Phi Beta Kappa

Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honor Society)