Ahmad H.

Senior Digital Design Engineer | PhD Candidate

Türkiye

About

Digital Design Engineer with expertise in FPGA development, computer architecture, and computer arithmetic.

Experience

  • Senior Digital Design and Verification Engineer at Yongatek Microelectronics
    Jul 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    IP Owner of: DDR (Controller & PHY), Decoder, and a Multi-Core DSP Active development and integration on 12 nm and 40 nm technology nodes End-to-end SoC development, from IP integration to system-level verification Leading work on custom embedded FPGA architecture and SoC integration

  • PHD Candidate at Cadence
    Apr 2025 - Jun 2025 · 3 mos

    Completed training in functional safety verification with a focus on ISO 26262.

  • Digital Design Engineer at Yongatek Microelectronics
    May 2023 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs

    • Key contributor to Turkey’s first FPGA tapeout. • Led the design and verification of a custom FPGA fabric, and supported backend implementation within a RISC-V-based SoC. • Built automated tools to streamline hardware design and testing, improving efficiency and consistency. • Applied equivalence checks, gate-level simulations, and custom verification methods to verify the eFPGA IP. • Developed early place & route flows to assess floorplan, congestion, and timing feasibility. • Applied low-power techniques to meet performance and power goals in tight design constraints. • Developed timing requirements and performed STA to verify the design’s performance. • Worked with industry-standard EDA tools on a full design flow targeting TSMC 55nm

  • Özyeğin University (4 yrs 8 mos)
    • Research Assistant
      Sep 2020 - Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos

      Developed high-performance digital circuits, including a floating-point reduction circuit with superior frequency-area performance and an open-source DSP block for OpenFPGA architectures. Addressed challenges in high-frequency floating-point reduction and efficient DSP resource sharing. Conducted research on multi-cycle folded integer multipliers, achieving significant area and energy savings, and designed a customizable generator for optimizing throughput, latency, and frequency. Designed a pipelined CPU architecture with advanced features such as branch prediction and forwarding, contributing to enhanced performance and area efficiency.

    • Teaching Assistant
      Sep 2020 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos

      Supported and assisted students in digital design coursework and lab experiments. Graded assignments and offered teaching assistance to students.