Francisco Soriano

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing how low power design strategies are specified and managed by Unified Power Format (UPF).
• Debugging/revising lab colleagues’ Verilog implementations and providing extensive Industry standard feedback.
• Designing efficient RTL & testbenches to generate waveform solutions for Digital Systems Lab Curriculum at UCF.
• Implementing a parameterized ALU in Verilog of a RISC-V Single Cycle 32 instruction set according to its specifications.
• Implementing and pipelining bit-width parameterized RTL modules in Verilog for a Barrett Multiplier & Montgomery Multiplier to increase throughput & reduce latency.
• Designing comprehensive testbenches in Verilog to simulate & verify correct module functionality based on expected outputs/generated simulation waveforms.
• Delivering technical presentations to Research team and AMD Executives on fellowship findings.

Responsibilities:

• Performing soldering demonstrations, for 40+ students per lab, of circuit components onto Printed Circuit Boards (PCB).
• Instructing students on decoding nominal resistor values while providing guidance on circuit theory.
• Instructing students on how to conduct proper jumper wire connections between TI-MSP432 boards & Servos
• Instructing students using Arduino IDE to demonstrate C++ functions and how to conduct proper adjustments to obtain expected line movement behavior & achieve desired path/distance from a TI-RSLK robot.
• Live-coding in MATLAB with emphasis on trigonometric graphical representations & mathematical operations.

Responsibilities:

• Developing lab projects including designing algebraic expressions & methods for MIPS assembly language computations using loops & branch statements, designing & testing inputs to test for extraneous undefined behavior using MARS IDE, explaining methods of efficient MIPS string manipulation and methods of Energy Optimization & Consumption with regards to Dynamic Instruction Count & Clocks Per Instruction (CPI).
• Debugging MIPS assembly code & MARS IDE installation for weekly labs of over 40+ students in person & via Zoom
• Creating lecture content quizzes, audio/video lecture assistance and facilitating discussion via Slido software to engage and manage over 100 students.

Responsibilities:

• Coaching undergraduate students with different teaching styles in College Algebra, Pre-Calculus, Trigonometry, Calculus with Analytical Geometry (I,II, & III), & Ordinary Differential Equations.