- Architect monitoring and diagnostics for link health
- Control high speed transceivers
- Define firmware roadmap
- Identify hardware firmware interface bottlenecks
- Implement bare metal or RTOS firmware
- Implement clock and data recovery
- Integrate firmware with cluster management frameworks
- Manage real time adaptive loops
- Partition hardware and firmware for physical layer interfaces
- Perform physical layer calibration
- Track BER trends in real time