Neal Crook
Silicon Design Engineer at Graphcore
Reading, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNeal Crook is a seasoned silicon design engineer with 11+ years designing and validating CMOS image sensors, SOCs and memory architectures for automotive and embedded applications. He has led chip sub-system architecture, top-level integration and silicon validation across companies including Aptina, Micron, ON Semiconductor and now Graphcore, blending deep RTL/verification skills with system-level arbitration and Hybrid Memory Cube experience. Neal pairs hands-on Verilog, C/assembler and scripting (Python/PERL/TCL) with customer-facing documentation and functional-safety-aware design for automotive sensors. His work spans embedded processor subsystems through chip-level bring-up and he frequently tackles the hardest cross-domain debug and verification challenges. An active STEM ambassador and retro-computing maintainer, he contributes to projects like a 6809-based FUZIX port on GitHub, revealing a practical passion for low-level systems. Based in Reading, UK, he combines technical leadership with pragmatic engineering and clear communication to deliver complex silicon products.
11 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics with electronics, 2 (i), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics with electronics, 2 (i) at University of Southampton
Github Skills (4)
sys10
operating-system10
embedded10
mmu9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
EtchedPixels/FUZIX
May 2016 - Nov 2016
FuzixOS: Because Small Is Beautiful
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:96 commits, 19 PRs, 39 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Neal primarily introduced and modified code related to a 6809 processor-based operating system. They implemented a new 6809 platform named "multicomp09" and included SD card driver modifications, DriveWire support, and MMU enhancements. Their contributions also included restructuring configurations, integrating BCPL and V7 code, and pruning dead code, indicating involvement in system-level development and porting efforts.
unlocksanitizationswaporigamibug-reporting
nealcrook/FUZIX
Apr 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:70 pushes, 40 branches, 1 tag in 2 years 4 months
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