Dave Mccoy
Hardware Engineer at Tycho.AI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolDave Mccoy is a hardware engineer with 14 years of experience designing electronics, firmware, and FPGA systems for research labs, startups, and product teams. Based in Cambridge, MA, he has led hardware design, manufacturing, and kernel/FPGA firmware development at MIT aeroastro research and currently at Tycho.AI, bringing practical prototyping tools to engineers and hobbyists through his work at Cospan Design. He combines deep hands-on skills—from schematic capture and PCB layout to kernel drivers and HDL cores—with a founder’s mindset for shipping usable products. Notably, he has delivered low-level firmware and FPGA solutions such as DDR3 controllers and MCU ports of higher-level languages, demonstrating fluency across software-hardware boundaries.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Stackoverflow
163reputation
5kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (53)
verilog10
uvm10
verification10
vhdl10
zynq10
python9
python-interface9
pcie9
fpga9
procedural-generation8
ftdi8
driver7
cartography7
device-driver7
map-generation7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CospanDesign/prometheus_fx3
Aug 2013 - Jan 2016
Contributions:46 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 5 months
cospan/sycamore
Jun 2011 - May 2012
Contributions:217 commits in 11 months
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