Rod Frazer
Embedded Specialist at Altera
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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SeniorRod Frazer is an embedded systems specialist with over three decades of experience designing and optimizing Altera/Intel FPGA-based architectures, from custom Verilog logic to Linux kernel drivers and user-space applications. He advises customers on hardware/software partitioning, memory, communication, and processing architectures to maximize FPGA capabilities, and is highly proficient with Quartus, Platform Designer, TimeQuest, SignalTap, System Console, and QuestaSim. His career spans long tenures at Altera and Intel, plus early embedded and field roles at Motorola and other engineering firms, reflecting deep domain expertise and customer-facing problem solving. Rod combines hands-on FPGA design and debug with system-level integration across bare-metal to full OS stacks, often bridging the gap between firmware teams and silicon-aware software. Based in the Atlanta area, he brings institutional knowledge of Altera toolchains and practical patterns for deployable, high-performance embedded solutions. An understated strength is his longevity in the field, indicating not just technical skill but an ability to evolve with FPGA platforms and tool ecosystems.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
altera-fpga/agilex5-demo-hps2fpga-interfaces
Aug 2024 - Dec 2024
Contributions:3 releases, 3 pushes, 3 tags in 4 months
intel/supplemental-reset-components-for-qsys
Nov 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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