Simon Southwell
Retired
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Southwell is a semi-retired engineer with over 35 years of R&D experience specializing in ASIC, FPGA and embedded software design, now focused on open-source IP and mentoring. His career spans high-performance computing, cellular and wireless systems, processor/subsystem design, verification and co-simulation, with hands-on work in PCIe, data compression logic and SoC modelling. A long history of roles from Hewlett-Packard to u‑blox and BlackBerry reflects deep practical experience across both silicon and firmware domains. He is an active collaborator on the OSVVM project, extending co-simulation capabilities and sharing tools for the community. Based in Cambridge, he balances selective consulting and contributions with writing technical articles and guiding junior engineers. Less obvious: his background in supercomputing architectures informs a systems-level perspective that efficiently bridges algorithmic, hardware and verification concerns.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (1st Hons), BSc (1st Hons) at University of the West of EnglandMSc, MSc at University of Bristol
Github Skills (19)
simulator9
tedious9
co-simulation8
fpga8
vhdl8
verilog8
simulation8
tcl7
compile6
simplify6
uart4
compiler4
responder4
processor3
verification3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wyvernSemi/riscV
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:143 commits, 132 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 6 months
wyvernSemi/winfilter
Sep 2016 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
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