Hardware design engineer vs hardware manager

Differences between hardware design engineer and hardware manager duties and responsibilities

Hardware design engineer example responsibilities.

• Perform back-end flow from RTL code synthesis, timing driven physical design to achieve a timing closure type-out database.
• Lead design team through preliminary and detail design, including trade studies, requirement verification, system prototyping and testing.
• Develop hardware and user-friendly GUI driven software to automate the manufacturing test and debug of microprocessor/ DSP control VXI bus modules.
• Generate synthesis reports and automate simulation using Perl scripts.
• Implement SPI port, USB port and Ethernet port.
• Acquire insights on popular inter-board interfaces like PCI, SPI, I2C, UART, MII, RS232, etc.
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Hardware manager example responsibilities.

• Manage employees and run cash registers.
• Manage multiple PCB builds from initial protos to A0 and to production.
• Manage a team that develop the XGEM Capture/Replay feature for 10G Ethernet.
• Result achieve by reusing existing power and cables while installing new EMC DMX3 units.
• Manage the regulatory approval process for all products including FCC, UL and CE.
• Manage all endpoint moves adds and changes including PC's, phones, and mobile devices.
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