Tayfun Karan

With a seasoned background in managing design and manufacturing processes, my expertise lies in the architecture of hardware and firmware for industrial controllers, fleet management systems, vehicle tracking systems, marine navigation systems, building automation systems, home automation systems, Automatic Identification Systems (AIS), Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and Software Defined Radio (SDR).

Skills with FPGA and Microprocessor/Microcontroller architectures such as;

Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M33/M4/M7/A5/A8/A9, ARM7, ARM9 cores, RISC-V core, Xilinx Spartan FPGA family, Lattice ECP5 family, Microchip Polarfire SoC/FPGA family, Efinix SoC/FPGA family.

Areas of Expertise:

• Analog, digital, mixed signal hardware design.
• Multilayer and high-speed PCB layout design in accordance with EMC/EMI regulations and impedance-controlled routing.
• Real time software and firmware design and coding.
• RTOS design, development, porting and usage for different embedded platforms.
• Communication medias and protocols such as; RS232, RS485, SPI, I2C, CANBus, Ethernet, USB, LVDS, GPRS, Modbus, Bluetooth, Zigbee, TCP/IP (and upper layers protocols).
• GSM/GPRS/LTE/GPS based vehicle tracking and fleet management systems, components, applications and protocols.
• UAV autopilot systems hardware design, software development, platform porting for Dronecode ecosystem.
• High precision GNSS systems, RTK GNSS hardware and firmware integration for UAV and vehicle tracking platforms.
• Software Defined Radio systems hardware, software and RTL design for maritime systems.
• Embedded Linux/uCLinux kernel patching, device drivers and custom platform porting.
• Digital signal, image and video processing.
• AI engines on FPGA based platforms.

• A New Fuzzy Approach for Edge Detection.
• A New Fuzzy Edge Detector for Noisy Images Using Modified WFM Filter.

Honorable Mention Award of 2004 Microsoft .NET Projects Challenges

PROJECT : AppSec-Face recognition based security application

RESPONSIBILITY ON THE PROJECT : Face recognition techniques and algorithms designing, developing and coding.