About · From robots to silicon

Luis Miguel QUEVEDO

I am a semiconductor engineer with a background in mechatronics. I started by integrating robots, PLCs and plants, and today I design digital circuits all the way to GDS. I work with FPGA, RISC-V, edge AI, MBSE and SysML v2.

Industry

In 2015 I founded my first automation venture in Colombia. Over almost six years I worked on more than 30 industrial projects: robotic welding cells, PLC control panels and plants, for clients such as PepsiCo and General Motors. That stage taught me to understand the whole system before moving down to the circuitry that makes it work.

Custom circuits

After years with robots, PLCs and plants, I became interested in what happens underneath the system: electronics, digital logic and circuits designed for a specific function. In 2023, in Tampa, I made that move: from automation to custom circuit design, and from there to specialized chip and semiconductor design.

MBSE and SysML v2

In 2024 I published two ASEE papers on MBSE for engineering labs. I then took that line to hardware and semiconductors with two IEEE LAEDC 2025 papers on AI, MBSE, SysML 2.0 and cyber-resilient architectures, one of them a Best Paper. I currently study these methods at the University of South Florida.

My RISC-V SoC

In 2026 I brought that path into my own design: a RISC-V SoC for TinyML closed on SkyWater SKY130. It combines a bit-serial CPU, a signed INT8 MAC, external memory and a quantized classifier. It takes six tiles and is headed for the Tiny Tapeout TTSKY26d shuttle.

Today

LMQ is my personal brand. QvIC Labs is my product brand, for the cycle from idea to chip and from chip to product. EDIDT is my education technology company. And I am opening a line in resilient electronics, FPGA and local processing for the Moon, Mars and asteroids.

Timeline

2013: The IEEE IAS student chapter at Universidad de San Buenaventura, which I chaired, receives the Outstanding Student Branch Chapter Award.
2015: Mechatronics engineer. I found my first automation venture in Colombia.
2017: I start leading EDS-ETC, the IEEE Electron Devices Society STEM program, with talks in Mexico, Costa Rica, Peru, Paraguay, Chile and Colombia.
2019: Chair of IEEE Young Professionals Colombia, until 2021.
2023: In Tampa I move from automation to custom circuit design. IEEE LAEDC paper on automation education for the semiconductor industry.
2024: Two ASEE papers on MBSE and engineering labs.
2025: I present my two papers on AI, MBSE and SysML 2.0 at IEEE LAEDC in Guadalajara. Best Paper.
2026: ASEE paper on MBSE and industry-sponsored capstone projects. RISC-V TinyML SoC headed for TTSKY26d.

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