Yves Tchapda's Personal Site

Academic Projects

Computer-Controlled Robot (1987)

Third year project for my Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the university of Cardiff. The project was to design and implement an electronic control circuit for a robot and to develop the software on an IBM computer.

Microprocessor-based Talking Scale (1988)

Master's degree project at UMIST, to design and implement a microprocessor-based system that would enable to measure the weight of an object and give it out vocally. The programming was done in Assembly language for the Motorola 6809 microprocessor.

Computer Applications of Signal Processing System Design and Simulation using Multiple Processors (1988-1991)

PhD thesis in the department of Computer Science at the university of Manchester. Develop high performance algorithms to enable concurrent execution of DSP simulation. The software was written in C++.

Research

Optically Connected Parallel Computers (1991-1992)

Develop a new generation of communication protocol for optically connected supercomputers.

Engineering Work

Develop scheduling and arbitration algorithms for high-speed switches
Implement those algorithms on chip
Use the VHDL language for such implementation
Work on Advanced Forward Error Correction
Modelling the AFEC in C
Implementation of the AFEC in .13u chip
Develop 10GbE and SONET on chip

Associations

I'm a member of the "Advanced Switching Interconnect Special Interest Group (ASI-SIG)", which is registered in the US, and whose objectives are to develop a set of standards based on Advanced Switching. In the past, I've also represented Power X in the "Common Switch Interface X (CSIX)" and "Network Processing Forum (NPF)" organisations.

Conferences

In 2001, I gave a lecture on"High-Performance Intelligent Switch Fabric Architectures and QOS" in San-Jose, California. I've also done some presentations at the "Motorola Developers Forum" in Atlanta (2000) and in New-Orleans (2001) .

Interesting Research

Here is a list of research topics I've shown an interest in:

The effective and cheap use of solar energy in Africa.
Electronic Cryptography
Biometry: The generation and decoding of biometric data from voice, hands, retina, iris, face, etc.
High Speed Forward Error Correction
RFID- Radio Frequency Identification
Efficient Routing Algorithms for Internet Application

Experiences

I have a good knowledge of Analogue and Digital Electronics. I also have some experience in chip design, mainly (.13 u, .18u, .25u) chips using VHDL for the design and verification.
My programming skills extend to the following languages: C, C++, TCL/TK, VHDL. I also intend to learn other languages such as PERL and Java.