John Davis
Senior FPGA Designer at Rapid Automation Design
Melbourne, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Davis is a Senior FPGA Designer and founder of Rapid Automation Design with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering FPGA solutions across avionics, broadcast, medical, RF, and entertainment industries. He brings deep expertise in high-speed interfaces (HDMI, DisplayPort, SERDES), PCIe, AXI, Ethernet, Zynq SoCs, and FPGA toolflows across Xilinx, Lattice, Microchip, and Intel. His career includes engagements with Walt Disney World Imagineering, L3Harris, Raytheon, Mercury Systems and GatesAir, highlighting an ability to translate diverse, mission-critical requirements into robust hardware and verified designs. Comfortable from simulation through lab verification, he pairs strong RTL skills in VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog with practical system-level integration and test. As a contractor and consultant, he leverages cross-domain experience—applying ideas from entertainment animatronics to RF and medical instruments—to accelerate problem solving. Based in Melbourne, Florida, he combines a 4.0 EEE degree with a reputation for delivering polished, field-proven FPGA systems.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0 at Florida State UniversityGithub contributions (1)
UPenn-RoboCup/UPennDev2
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:64 commits in 1 month
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