Igor Lokhmotov

San Diego, CA 92129

e -mail: lokhmotov@gmail.com

 

Summary

 

A Sr. Staff Software/Firmware Engineer with extensive international experience in design and development of firmware for real-time embedded systems. Excellent skills in device drivers, multi-threaded software development, hardware diagnostics, verification, bring-up, debugging, and problem solving software and hardware. A strong contributor with a passion for producing quality work.

 

Technical Skills

 

Computer Languages:
Operating Systems:
Processors:
Protocols:
Hardware Tools:
Compilers:

C, C++; Assemblers: ARM, Intel x86, PowerPC; HTML, PHP, Perl
Windows, Linux Kernel, Real-Time Kernel uC/OS, Rex, ThreadX, MS-DOS
ARM, ARM-Cortex-M3, 8051, Intel XScale, Intel x86, IBM PowerPC
USB, I2C, I2S, PCM, SPI, PCI, PCI-X, SCSI, ATA
Logic Analyzers, Digital Oscilloscopes, ARM RealView JTAG Debuggers
ARM DevSuite, GNUPro C/C++, GHS, WindRiver Diab C/C++,  Borland C++, Visual  C++, MASM, TASM

 

United States Patent  N 6122239, 09/19/2000

 

Professional Experience

 

BROADCOM CORPORATION, San Diego, CA                                                            6/2006 - present

Sr. Staff Firmware Engineer

·        Designed and implemented a flexible and extensible software infrastructure for running "stress” tests that verify millions of pseudorandom combinations of hardware blocks interactions, event sequences, and data values. Each individual test creates hardware configuration and a set of data patterns, initializes and executes hardware, and verifies the operation results. 

·        Developed verification firmware for Broadcom Bluetooth SoC based on ARM, Cortex-m3, 8051.

·        Developed firmware and Perl scripts to test DMA, PCM, I2S, I2C, SPI, USB, OptimoDE, XRAM, Audio Routing, Patch hardware.  

·        Developed firmware diagnostics to support failure analysis requests (FAR).

(ARM Assembler, C; GHS, ClearCase, ARM JTAG Debugger and Trace2, Oscilloscopes, LA, USB Tracer)

 

KYOCERA WIRELESS CORPORATION, San Diego, CA                                              9/2004 – 6/2006

Sr. Software/Firmware Engineer

·        Developed display (LCD, OLED) device drivers for Kyocera cell phones based on Qualcomm MSM 6100, MSM6550. Modified MDP (Mobile Display Processor) device driver

·        Provided firmware/software development support for hardware bring-up

(ARM Assembler, C; ARM DevSuite 1.20, Trace32 JTAG Debugger, Digital Oscilloscopes, LA)

 

INTEL CORPORATION, Chandler, AZ                                                                            10/2003 - 9/2004

Sr. Software/Firmware Engineer

·        Developed system validation firmware for Intel PXA27x family of processors based on Intel XScale technology (specifically designed for cell phones and wireless PDAs)

·        Developed software/firmware, set up on the System Level Emulation (SLE) test beds to enable system validation code to execute as quickly as possible by offloading portions of the code to be executed on a (silicon based) full speed system, while executing only what is specifically needed to perform the test on the (comparatively slow) SLE.

      (GNUPro C/C++/Assembler, MS Visual C++, Logic Analyzer, PCI Analyzer)

 

IBM CORPORATION, MYLEX, Fremont, CA                                                                       1999 – 10/2002

Staff Software/Firmware Engineer

·        Led hardware diagnostics development team

·        Developed on board hardware diagnostics and boot code for PCI/PCI-X 64-bit RAID controllers based on IBM PowerPC 405, Intel XScale (Intel 80200/80312), StrongARM Microprocessors (WindRiver Diab C/C++, ARM Developer Suite, Assemblers ARM, PowerPC)

·        Provided firmware/software development support for bring-up custom I/O and ASIC designs, board and system level hardware

·        Designed and implemented API to support embedded hardware diagnostics for PCI RAID controllers

·        Developed MS-DOS command line utilities used by manufacturing during the functional test of the  PCI RAID controllers (Borland C++, MASM, TASM)

 

CORPORATE SYSTEMS CENTER, Santa Clara, CA                                                         1994 – 1999

Sr. Software/Firmware Engineer

Developed Embedded stand-alone 4 channel Digital Audio Logging System MIL-4000, Digital Audio Recorder, and CDR Duplicator “CD Dupe-It”

·        Debugged system boards based on AM186ED/EM microcontrollers, parallel/serial port adapters, Audio Input/Output boards, SCSI adapters, IDE adapters, phone line interface, LCD adapters, keyboards, knob

·        Developed Real-Time multi-threaded (uC/OS Kernel) embedded applications, internal Power-On Self-Tests, and hardware diagnostics

·        Developed device drivers:

·        SCSI HD, ATA HD, LCD, Serial/parallel ports, keyboard, knob, serial CMOS EEPROM

·        4 channel audio u-Law codec data input/output system with phone line interface

·        Developed testing tools

(Borland C++ 5.2, TASM, Paradigm Debug/RT, Paradigm Locate)

Ported  Real-Time Kernel uC/OS to AM186EM microcontroller

(C/C++, Borland C++ 3.1, TASM, Paradigm Debug/RT, Paradigm Locate)

Developed Embedded X10 Fast Cache Floppy PC ISA Controller

·        Debugged controller board based on Intel 80C188, and 2 channels 2x speed floppy drive

·        Developed PC BIOS (INT13H, INT40H)

·        Developed embedded application, automatic read-ahead preloading and caching algorithms, internal Power-On Self-Test, hardware diagnostics, cache memory manager, dual memory manager, 2 channel PC8477 floppy controller and floppy drive device drivers

·        Developed MS-DOS TSR Eject Floppy Diskette utility, Fast Floppy Diskette Duplicator

Developed SCSI/ASPI-compatible DOS device drivers and utilities for CD-ROM, Tapes, HDD

 

SUN MICROSYSTEMS, Mountain View, CA                                                                        1993 - 1994

Software Engineer

·        Maintained XView internals in Solaris 2.3/OpenWindows.

·        Developed automated tests for Open Look Intrinsics Toolkit (OLIT) and XView Toolkit under the Test Environment Toolkit (TET).

 (C, Perl, csh, sh, Sun OS/Solaris, SUN SPARCStation)

 

EXPER 3, Lyon, France - Moscow, Russia                                                             1992 - 1993

Software Engineer

Developed control, data acquisition, and graphic applications for digital camera in SCO UNIX System V/386. (C, Xlib, X Window terminal, SCO UNIX System V/386)

MOSCOW CITY COMPUTER CENTER, Moscow, Russia                                                  1988 - 1992

Software/Firmware Engineer

Developed DOS device drivers, firmware, TSRs, hardware diagnostics, communication software (C/C++, Borland C++ 3.1, TASM 3.0, RT-11, RSX-11M-PLUS, Assemblers: PDP-11, Z80, 8080)

MACHINETECH, Serpukhov, Russia                                                                                   1982 - 1988

Hardware/Firmware/Software Engineer

Developed hardware, real-time firmware, software for CNC machine tools and robots.

 

 

Education

 

MOSCOW POWER ENGINEERING INSTITUTE, Moscow, Russia                                    1975 - 1982

MS Electrical Engineering

IBM GLOBAL CAMPUS, Austin, USA                                                                                  1999 - 2002

PCI, PCI-X, IBM PowerPC 405GP, SCSI

QUALCOMM, San Diego, CA                                                                                                2005 - 2006

CDMA 2000, Brew