Ardor Richard-Chukkas

I write RTL code for design and verification

ASIC/FPGA Design and Verification Engineer June 2025– Present ChipMango Company

• Conduct design reviews of semiconductor IPs for a global technology companies and provides technical guidance to ensure design quality and compliance with industry standards
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including hardware designers, architects, and software engineers) to debug and resolve design and verification issues while documenting processes and methodologies
• Implementing SystemVerilog and UVM verification environments with industry-standard verification tools, such as, Cadence Xcelium, SimVision, and Verification IP, ensuring functional correctness and performance compliance of complex digital designs

B.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering (First Class Honours) October 2016– January 2022 University of Lagos, Nigeria

• Final Year Project: FPGA Fingerprint Image Processor (Supervised by Prof. Alex I. Mowete)- Used CORDIC, Sobel and Gabor filters. Simulated on Modelsim, Implemented using VGA and an OV7670 camera input. Synthesized in Quartus Il for Cyclone II EP2C5 and in Vivado for Artix-7 (Basys 3 Board)