Space 2.0: AMD Xilinx Technologies for New Space

Troy worked for Lockheed Martin as both software engineer and AMD Xilinx designer in the late 90’s, and spent the next 12 years as a AMD Xilinx dedicated embedded specialist FAE in distribution. He then took an FAE role at Microchip (formerly Actel) where he assisted engineers design in radiation tolerant and radiation hardened devices. Following these Hi REL roles, he worked a few years as an Intel-PSG embedded specialist FAE working on SoC reference designs.

After enjoying a few years as a professional AMD Xilinx technical trainer, he was hired into AMD Xilinx by the Central Products Group team as a Sr. Product Marketing Engineer responsible for planning, marketing and driving enhancements for AMD Xilinx’s embedded Linux strategies. Over the past 9 months he has since returned to the space market as the Space Systems Architect on the Aerospace and Defense marketing team defining, promoting and supporting all the AMD Xilinx space grade product lines.

Troy has a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Adam Taylor is an expert in design and development of embedded systems and FPGAs for several end applications. Throughout his career, he used FPGAs to implement a wide variety of solutions — from RADAR to safety critical control systems (SIL4) and satellite systems.

Adam has held several posts in image processing and cryptography in his career. He led large developments for several major multinational companies. For many years, Adam held significant roles in the space industry. He was a design authority at Astrium Satellites’ payload processing group for six years and was the chief engineer of a space imaging company for three years.

FPGAs are Adam’s first love. He is the author of numerous articles and papers on electronic design and FPGA design, including over 330 blogs with 25 million-plus views on how to use the Zynq and Zynq MPSoC for AMD Xilinx.

Adam is Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, Visiting Professor of Embedded Systems at the University of Lincoln and Arm Innovator. He is also the owner of the engineering and consultancy company Adiuvo Engineering and Training.