Summary
David Hill is a seasoned FPGA and hardware engineer with over 20 years in defense, telecom, and datacom, currently serving as a Xilinx Field Applications Engineer at Avnet. He blends deep hands-on experience in board and FPGA design, embedded processors, and RF systems with customer-facing sales support and product development, having led new-product initiatives at DLP Design. Comfortable across the full development lifecycle, he has implemented solutions using Xilinx, Microsemi/Actel, Cypress, TI, Microchip, and Renesas technologies, and helped translate complex multi-board functions into single-chip SoC designs. David also brings marketing and social media experience for technical products, reflecting a unique mix of engineering rigor and commercial savvy. Based in Garland, Texas, he’s enthusiastic about pushing Zynq, Vivado, UltraScale and UltraScale+ capabilities to replace whole-PCB architectures with modern programmable systems.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer