Academic to Silicon

Signal mathematics forged in hardware

Ten years translating sampling theory and multi-rate filter topologies into cycle-accurate embedded firmware. Specializing in low-latency audio pipelines, deterministic fixed-point execution, and acoustic laboratory qualification.

Disciplined Execution

Four-stage engineering pipeline

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Mathematical Simulation

Fixed-Point Quantization

Cycle-Accurate Profiling

Laboratory Bench Validation

Algorithmic synthesis and polyphase filter modeling in double-precision MATLAB and Python to define theoretical stopband rejection boundaries.

Translation into Q15 and Q31 arithmetic schemes, isolating truncation noise and verifying limit cycles through rigorous numerical error analysis.

Bare-metal implementation in C++ and hand-tuned SIMD assembly, mapping inner loops directly to hardware registers to eliminate pipeline stalls.

Direct empirical measurement in anechoic test chambers and automated bench fixtures using high-resolution audio analyzers and RF scopes.

System Constraint

Real-time audio pipelines fail at memory bandwidth and non-deterministic cache misses, never at theoretical mathematical complexity.

Julian Vance, Senior DSP Systems Engineer

Domain Breadth

Primary technical competencies

Embedded C++ Firmware

SIMD Vectorization

Transducer Acoustic Tuning

Zero-allocation runtime architectures targeted to ARM Cortex-M, Cadence Tensilica, and SHARC processors with deterministic execution deadlines.

Vector optimization utilizing ARM NEON and x86 AVX instruction sets for high-throughput multi-channel spatial audio and real-time beamforming.

System identification, loudspeaker non-linear compensation, and adaptive feedback cancellation calibrated against physical hardware limits.

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