Luis Miguel Quevedo · Semiconductor engineer
From robots TO SILICON.
I’m Luis Miguel Quevedo, LMQ. I spent years integrating robots, control panels and plants in industry. Now I design digital circuits all the way to GDS and build the products that use them.
Write to meWhat I’m LAUNCHING
1 QvIC Labs
The full hardware cycle: from an idea told in plain words to a product made at scale, with its own chip and its own board.
In progress2 Physical AI
My own RISC-V SoC to bring AI inference to very low-cost devices, closed on 130 nm SkyWater SKY130 and headed for the Tiny Tapeout TTSKY26d shuttle.
More detail
It pairs the CPU, a bit-serial architecture in a small area, with a signed INT8 MAC accelerator for dense layers. It boots from SPI Flash, uses PSRAM as data memory and runs a quantized 4→3 classifier that reports over UART. Verified against a Python reference model, at RTL and gate level, and closed in 6 tiles on SkyWater SKY130, an open 130 nm process.
3 R&D and space
I research how MBSE and SysML v2 bring order to hardware design and engineering education: seven papers at IEEE and ASEE and three patents, one granted and two pending.
My new line is space: resilient electronics and FPGA autonomy for devices on the Moon, Mars and asteroids.
More detail
Publications: six papers at IEEE LAEDC and ASEE between 2023 and 2026. On design, an AI and MBSE framework that takes an idea in natural language to FPGA and SoC (Best Paper, IEEE LAEDC 2025) and a SysML v2 approach to cyber-resilient semiconductor architectures. On education, embedded-systems labs designed with MBSE and automation education for the semiconductor industry.
Patents: one granted and two pending, in AI, education and agribusiness.
Space: a CNN that classifies asteroid taxonomy from SMASS II spectra, with 96% test accuracy on 56×56 pixel images, built for resource-constrained hardware.
4 Lab
My projects and interests in pictures: the industry where I started, the boards I designed and what I’m exploring now, from FPGAs to inference at the edge.
See the gallery5 Contact
Consulting in digital design, FPGA and MBSE, training and STEM education, talks and R&D collaboration. If you have a hardware project in mind, let’s talk.
Book a call6 Flipping
An analysis, tracking and control tool for remodeling and construction projects: feasibility studies, budget, site progress and handover, in one place.
Running7 IEEE EDS
IEEE member for more than 15 years, Senior Member and member of the Electron Devices Society. I chaired the EDS chapter at the University of South Florida and led EDS-ETC, the society’s STEM education program that brings engineering to schools and teachers.
Senior Member8 EDIDT
My education technology company. We find what each young learner needs and show them the way to improve in math for Colombia’s Saber 11° exam, in a fun and efficient way.
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From idea to chip.From chip to product.
Your imagination sets the limit. We build it.
QvIC doesn’t stop at silicon. An idea enters one end of the cycle and comes out the other as a product ready to be made at scale.
See the chip- 01
Idea
You describe the need in your own words.
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Model
The framework understands it and turns it into requirements and architecture, with MBSE and AI.
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Design
Firmware and hardware are designed together, traced to every requirement.
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Simulation
Everything is tested in simulation before touching copper.
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Devkit
The prototype runs on FPGA and development boards.
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Fabrication
Two fronts at once: the custom chip and the PCB with its components.
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Integration
The chip comes back, goes onto the PCB and everything is tested again.
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Production
Once it meets the need, mass production starts.
The lab IN 12 BITS
Explore my projects and interests: fifteen years of control panels, robots, boards and prototypes. Drag the drum or scroll to spin it.
Research R&D
Conference papers at IEEE and ASEE on MBSE, hardware design and engineering education.
- ASEE Annual Conference · 2026Streamlining Industry-Sponsored Capstone Documentation with MBSE: Enabling Architecture Trade Studies and Early System Level Simulation
- IEEE LAEDC · 2025 · Best PaperAI-Driven Digital Design Prototyping with MBSE for Small-Scale Makers
- IEEE LAEDC · 2025Integrate MBSE and SysML 2.0 for Next-Generation Cyber-Resilient Semiconductor Architectures
- IEEE LAEDC · 2024Integrating Multidimensional Teaching-Learning Methods: A Trans-disciplinary Approach to Engineering Education Driven by Advances in Neurosciences
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- ASEE Annual Conference · 2024Agile Model-Based Systems Engineering Framework to Design a Laboratory Course—Case Study: An Embedded Systems Laboratory Course
- ASEE Annual Conference · 2024Model-Based System Engineering Applied to Designing Engineering Labs to Dynamically Adapt to Industry Trends - Case in Point: The Mechatronics, Robotics and Control Lab
- IEEE LAEDC · 2023Accelerating Engineering Education and Workforce Development in Automation & Control for the Semiconductor Industry Based on Cognitive Neuroscience
I am
Learning started in mechatronics: I’m an engineer from Universidad de San Buenaventura, with a certificate in telecommunications. I’m currently pursuing an MS in electrical engineering at the University of South Florida, focused on methodologies such as MBSE (model-based systems engineering) and SysML v2 applied to semiconductor design.
My first venture, over almost 6 years, let me deliver more than 30 projects with industry, for companies such as PepsiCo and General Motors: robotic welding cells, PLC control panels and plants. That experience taught me industrial applications from the big picture down to the essentials, and sparked my interest in custom circuit design, all the way to specialized chip and semiconductor design.
Quite simply, I’m passionate about sharing knowledge. I’ve been an IEEE member for more than 15 years, a Senior Member and a member of the Electron Devices Society. As a volunteer I chaired the EDS chapter at the University of South Florida and led EDS-ETC for more than 5 years, a STEM initiative that brings engineering to schools and teachers. Today I do it through EDIDT, my venture, where we identify young people’s learning needs and show them the way to improve their performance in a fun and efficient way.
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