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Tomi Junnila
Almanpolku 2
21500 Piikkiö
Finland

Tel. +358 (0)50 568 9864

Last updated December 13, 2022

Family

Marital Status: Married

Children: 2 children, born 2004 and 2010

Language Skills

EnglishExcellent
FinnishNative
FrenchPoor
SwedishPoor

Professional Skills

SoC design
  • Several SoC integration projects, including subsystem integration responsibility.
  • Trace & Debug architecture, ARM CoreSight
SoC verification
  • SoC co-verification software design (C, C++ and assembly mostly for ARM and TMS320C55x processor cores)
  • SoC co-simulation wakeup responsibility
  • IP-level test bench development for reuse in ASIC-level verification
  • Production test vector creation and validation
Software design
  • Object-Oriented Design
  • Web application design (ASP.NET MVC & Core, , PHP)
  • Windows application design (WPF)
  • Low level driver design
  • Qt C++ framework
  • Some plain Windows API experience
  • Database administration
Programming languages
Assembly ARM: extensive, TMS320C55x: some, x86: some
bash good
C extensive
C++ extensive
C# extensive
Java some
perl some
PHP several years
Python some
Ruby limited
SystemVerilog extensive
tcsh some
VHDL extensive
XSLT some
Software frameworks
Angular 1 some
ASP.NET Core good
ASP.NET MVC 1-4 good
ASP.NET Web API good
React limited

Work History

2008–presentOwner, Other Alien Software
  • Developing accounting and on-board ship stability software in C# on the Windows platform
2015–presentSenior R&D Engineer, Nordic Semiconductor
  • SoC verification
  • Subsystem verification
  • Subsystem design & integration
  • IP design
2013–2015Software Engineer, Information Management, Cadmatic oy
  • Full stack software engineering
    • CADMATIC eShare digital twin platform
2007–2012Staff Engineer, SoC verification, STMicroelectronics / ST-NXP Wireless / ST-Ericsson
  • SoC verification
    • Verification platform architecture and design in ARM assembly language, C and C++
    • Verification planning
    • Software implementation
    • SoC wake-up
  • SoC architecture design
    • Participated in Trace & Debug architecture design
  • IP architecture design
    • Trace & Debug IPs:
      • MIPI System Trace Protocol v2
      • Trace Memory Manager for USB
      • MIPI SneakPeek Protocol
  • Industry standardisation
    • Company representative in the MIPI Debug Workgroup and USB Debug Framework
    • Author of the MIPI System Trace Protocol v2, MIPI Debug Adaptor for USB, and MIPI Debug Adaptor for UniPro
1998–2007Digital ASIC design specialist, Nokia Technology Platform
  • SoC verification:
    • SoC co-simulation wakeup responsibility
    • Mostly in C and ARM1176JZF-S and TMS320C55x assembly languages
  • SoC subsystem integration
  • Production test vector creation and validation
  • IP design:
    • 3GPP searcher module
    • System trace interface (including standardisation work into MIPI STP)
    • Module-level test bench development for reuse in SoC-level verification
  • Industry standardisation:
    • Participating in the MIPI Debug Workgroup (then Trace & Debug Workgroup)
    • Author of the MIPI System Trace Protocol v1
  • Patent
    • "A method for time-stamping messages", awarded 2008, with Ossi Lindvall (in use in the MIPI System Trace Protocol)
1997–1998Software Designer, Ship Consulting Ltd Oy
  • Developed on-board ship stability software used on approximately 30 vessels worldwide
1996–1998Linux System Administrator, Nisamest oy
  • Maintained the company's public web server
1992–1996Software Designer, TOP-Case ky
  • Developed accounting and personal finance software in C, C++, Delphi, and x86 assembly language
  • Technical support for Proxim wireless local area networks)

Education

1993–2001University of Turku, Master of Science in Electronics and Information Technology
Minor subjects: Physics, Mathematics and Computer Science
Master Thesis titled "Designing a Rake Receiver for the Common Pilot Channels in 3GPP" (2000), eximia cum laude approbatur.
1990–1993Tuurepori secondary school, Turku, Finland. Baccalaureate spring of 1993, laudatur.

Military Service

1994–1995: signal corps, current rank senior lieutenant (reserve).

Responsible Positions

2004–2007Turku Science Fiction Society, treasurer (2004–2006), board member (2004–2007)
1997–2008Science Fiction Culture Cabinet at the University of Turku, treasurer (1997–2008), secretary (2006)
2001–2003Finncon X - Eurocon 2003, member of the organizing committee
1998–2000Turku Medieval Society, chairperson
1997–1999Finncon 1999, secretary of the organizing committee
1998Turun yliopiston rooli- ja strategiapeliseura Tyrmä, treasurer