Hugh Pollitt-smith
Director, CAD Business Unit at CMC Microsystems
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHugh Pollitt-smith is a seasoned systems design and hardware engineering leader with over 25 years of experience focused on ASIC, FPGA, VHDL and semiconductor architectures, now directing the CAD Business Unit at CMC Microsystems. He combines deep technical know-how with program leadership, having progressed from Senior Systems Design Engineer to Team Leader for IoT and Edge AI before assuming his current director role. Hugh has a strong academic collaboration track record and has driven university outreach and hardware task groups at OpenHW, bridging open-source RISC-V efforts with industry needs. Based in Kingston, Ontario, he leverages a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba to translate research ideas into practical toolchains and CAD workflows. Notably, his career blends hands-on hardware design expertise with building organizational capability around edge AI and design automation.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of Manitoba
Github Skills (20)
risc10
systemverilog9
risc-v9
hosting8
embedded6
electrical-engineering6
microcontroller6
xilinx6
soc5
mcu5
cpu5
pulp5
accelerator3
neural-network2
software-update1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cmcmicrosystems/core-v-mcu
Aug 2020 - Jan 2021
This is the top-level project for the PULPissimo Platform. It instantiates a PULPissimo open-source system with a PULP SoC domain, but no cluster.
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
pulpclustersocdomain
hpollittsmith/core-v-docs
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
Documentation for the OpenHW Group's set of CORE-V RISC-V cores
Contributions:10 pushes in 26 days
risc-vrisccores
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