Characterize and document electronic systems: Research circuit components, printed circuit boards, FPGA architectures, and embedded systems; create detailed schematics, PCB layouts, HDL block diagrams, and firmware documentation; perform laboratory environment time and frequency domain tests and measurements to understand analog and digital circuit functions, FPGA logic behavior, and device operational purpose. Duties may include designing FPGA logic using VHDL/Verilog, developing firmware for soft-core and embedded processors, analyzing analog and digital circuits on equipment and printed circuit boards to establish operating data, conducting experimental tests and evaluating results, as well as selecting FPGA devices, components and equipment based on analysis of specifications, performance requirements, and reliability.