Andy Dilts
About Andy Dilts
Andy Dilts is a Principal R&D Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories with extensive experience in high-speed digital design and FPGA design.
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Andy Dilts holds the position of Principal R&D Engineer at Sandia National Laboratories. He has been serving in this role since 2020 in the Albuquerque, New Mexico area.
Previous Roles
Andy Dilts has accumulated extensive experience through various roles in the engineering field. He worked as a Senior Electrical Engineer at Sierra Peaks Corp from 2018 to 2020 and at Management Sciences, Inc. from 2014 to 2018. Before that, he served as a Systems Engineer at GE Intelligent Platforms from 2006 to 2014. Earlier in his career, he held positions as Senior Hardware Engineer at SBS Technologies and Essential Communications. Additionally, he was a FPGA/ASIC Engineering Design Supervisor and Project Engineer at Westell Technologies, Inc. from 1996 to 2001.
Education and Expertise
Andy Dilts earned a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology, studying from 1990 to 1995. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, where he studied from 1984 to 1988. His areas of expertise include high-speed digital design, FPGA design with both Altera and Xilinx FPGAs, and proficiency in VHDL and schematic design flows. He is skilled in using schematic capture tools like DxDesigner and Orcad Capture and simulation tools such as HyperLynx and LTSpice.
Technical Skills
Andy Dilts possesses extensive technical skills in high-speed digital design, specifically with PCI Express, InfiniBand, Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0, and Firewire (1394b). He has expertise in FPGA design, having worked with both Altera and Xilinx FPGAs using VHDL and schematic design flows. He is also proficient in schematic capture tools such as DxDesigner and Orcad Capture, as well as simulation tools including HyperLynx and LTSpice. Andy is familiar with a wide range of test equipment, such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, and function generators.
Product Design and Compliance
Throughout his career, Andy Dilts has successfully designed products that meet environmental, FCC, and CE compliance standards. His extensive experience in high-speed digital design and FPGA design has equipped him with the skills necessary to ensure that the products he works on adhere to regulatory requirements while maintaining high performance and reliability.