Soonpil Hwang is a Sr. Principal Application Engineer with nine years of focused experience in controller design and verification, specializing in USB and PCIe protocols and associated verification environments like UVM and AVIP. He has driven simulation-acceleration and emulation workflows using Palladium PZ1 (SimAcceleration) and VirtualBridge across Cadence and prior roles at SK hynix and Samsung Electronics. Known for bridging deep protocol expertise with practical tooling, he helps teams integrate MIPI/PCIe/DisplayPort verification into scalable FPGA/Emulation flows. Based in South Korea, he pairs an MS from Sogang University with hands-on experience implementing verification stacks in complex SoC projects, often improving bring-up speed and coverage closure in high-volume semiconductor environments.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Sogang University
Bachelor of Science - BS, electronics, Bachelor of Science - BS, electronics at 인하대학교
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