l  Hardware Design: Cadence, Mentor PADS, (especially on High-Speed Hardware Design)

l  Programming Language: C, VHDL, Matlab, (especially on Real-Time Arithmetic Realization)

l  Communication Protocol: Ethernet, PCIe  

l  System Simulations: HyperLynx, SystemView

l  Logic Developments: ISE, EDK, SDK, System Generator, ModelSim, ChipScope

l  Embedded Applications: Xilinx Spartan/Virtex series FPGAs, AVR/MSP430/C8051F series MCUs