PCB DESIGN / ALTIUM / FPGA

Daniel Pacheco

I’m an electrical engineer focused on PCB design, circuit simulation, and FPGA development. My work includes Altium schematics and multilayer board layouts, embedded interfaces, and Verilog / Vivado labs.

Clemson B.S. Electrical Engineering · Engineer-in-Training · South Carolina

Daniel Pacheco

Selected Altium training

PCB design and circuit simulation training, with credential badges and supporting details.

FPGA & digital logic

RTL / SIMULATION / FPGA IMPLEMENTATION

Verilog & FPGA implementation

Verilog · AMD Vivado · PYNQ-Z2 / Zynq

Built logic, adders, and ROM-based comparators; wrote a testbench covering all 16 input combinations of a 2-bit comparator. Took a 2-to-1 MUX through XDC pin constraints, synthesis, implementation, bitstream generation, and board-level switch/LED checks.

Rocket launch & sensor payload

Clemson Creative Inquiry · Hellbenders I · 2022

Our team designed a rocket payload to record atmospheric measurements and GPS location during flight.

More engineering work

Embedded C & peripheral interfaces

C · SPI · GPIO · interrupts · timers / PWM

Wrote microcontroller firmware for button and timer interrupts, PWM output, and a separate SPI master exercise. Source code is linked from the project page.

Circuit modeling & simulation

Altium MixedSim · course exercise

Recreated an RC circuit tolerance study using Gaussian, uniform, and Worst Case Monte Carlo simulations, with schematic and output plots.

Engineering experience

At Santee Cooper, I ported C source from Windows to Linux, deployed version-controlled changes across eight servers using Git, and supported system integration and acceptance testing with technical documentation. These workflows reinforce the development, validation, and configuration-management side of my hardware work.