✋ Hi, there!

I’m Juhyung Kim, an FPGA and Firmware engineer living in Seoul, South Korea.

📌 Experiences

BLUEDOT, inc

Hardware engineer · Full-time, 2020.02 -

As a HW engineer specializing in High-Level Synthesis, I have worked at BLUEDOT to develop semiconductor IP on FPGA in data centers to accelerate video processing and video encoding. Some of my specific contributions include:

Implemented hardware for AV1 intra mode search
Upgraded motion estimation hardware to support 8K and tile operations, with the ability to handle Full HD
Revised the Xilinx FPGA device driver to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) data transfer with Nvidia GPUs
Developed image preprocessor
- Capable of handling 4K resolution at 60fps with a clock frequency of 250 MHz
- Downsize filter with support for lanczos and bicubic algorithms
- Support for both YV12 and NV12 input formats
Developed DMA controller for loop filter module

I am proud to say that the FPGA AV1 encoder project I contributed to was ranked 3rd in the 2022 MSU Codec Comparison, a well-respected industry event that evaluates the performance of various encoders.

KETI (Korea Electronics Technology Institute)

FW engineer · Part-time(during undergraduate years), 2018.10 - 2019.12

Wireless charging system capable of extending multiple devices

2018.10 - 2019.03

Worked on TI-C2000 firmware to control Full-Bridge inverter and DC-DC converter using PWM
ADC sensing timing control using Timer/Counter
CLA for PID calculation
Implemented SCI and SPI communication
Developed interrupt-based control for better system efficiency

BLE communication firmware

2019.04 - 2019.08

Developed BLE communication firmware using Nordic nRF52
Designed a BLE GAP profile for multi-masters:multi-slaves communication and GATT profiles for a required behavior
Implemented to control the BLE module through UART

BLE beacon firmware

2018.09 - 2019.12

Developed firmware for both radio signal generator and receiver using Nordic nRF52
Developed a generator that can transmit a radio signal equivalent to an 8-bit character sent through a BLE mobile phone app
Developed a receiver that samples signals using a 10-bit ADC at 4kHz, and calculates the similarity between input and target signals
Developed to transmit temperature and humidity sensor data through a BLE beacon if the input signal matches the target signal

📚 Education

Gachon University

Bachelor’s degree · Electronics Engineering, 2013.03 - 2020.02

Coursera

Machine Learning and Deep learning, 2019.08.28

🧑🏻‍💻 Projects

And so on…

🙋‍♂️Activities

I taught my friends about embedded system programming for several semesters.

Juhyung Kim