Clarke Needles - Firmware Designer at Semtech Corporation

$ Firmware Designer█

Semtech Corporation

Kanata

May 2026 - Present

Role Summary

  • Executed firmware bring-up and debugging for data communication chips across BA22 and 8051 microcontrollers using C, verifying code via Keil debugger simulations and hardware regression frameworks.
  • Resolved critical firmware bugs and delivered live customer patches by mastering complex signal processing algorithms (CTLE and CDR) to effectively filter noise and ensure precise signal retiming.
  • Developing custom Python drivers to replace manual SCPI commands, streamlining automated test execution over I2C dongles and handling EFM32-based timing tests.