System Design

• Product Design:

  New product development from concept to pilot manufacturing. Circuit, firmware and packaging design including test engineering for manufacturing testability.

• Factory Automation:

  Custom automated turnkey production tools and test equipment utilizing PC-hosted multiaxis DSP motion control and COGNEX vision systems for semiconductor, telecommunications, data storage, etc. industries.

Circuit Design

• Analog Design:

  Functions using discrete and integrated circuit elements incorporating bipolar and FET technologies. Linear and switchmode power supplies and amplifiers. Data acquisition systems. Low noise circuit design. High bandwidth (to 500MHz) analog signal chains.

• Digital Design:

  FPGA and PLD designs using VHDL, Verilog, Xilinx Foundation, Abel, PALASM and Tango. Discrete logic implementations using 74HC, 74HCT, 74AC, 74F, 4000 series, CMOS, ECL10k, and PECL logic families.

• Radio Frequency Design:

  EMI, RFI reduction techniques. Controlled impedance stripline design for PC board layouts.

• Motion Control:

  Precision motion control systems down to nanometer-scale resolutions using both commercial off the shelf components or custom designs. Analog and digital servoamplifiers. Custom DSP-based motion controllers.

• Schematic Capture and PCB Layout:

  Schematic capture with BOM, DRC and parts library outputs for each design. Analog, digital, power and mixed signal circuit boards to 12 layers (so far) for both thru hole and surface mount parts. Auto routing with manual optimization where appropriate.

Programming Languages

• Host Programming:

  HTML, Java, XML, PERL, C/C++, various assembly languages, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, Pascal, PL/M, HPL, LEX, YACC, Anagram, Labwindows, Labview, MFC, Visual C/C++, Borland Builder, WIN16, WIN32

• Embedded Systems Programming in C/C++ and Assembly Language:

  Motorola: DSP56000, DSP563xx, 6800, 6805, 6809, 68HC711, 68000, 68008, Intel: 8085, 8086, 80x86, 8031, 8049, 8051, Texas Instruments: TMS320x, Zilog: Z80, Microchip: PIC16x-18x, Rockwell: 6502, National Semi: HPC16003, Atmel: AVR

• Hardware Description:

  VHDL, Verilog, Xilinx Foundation, Abel, Tango, PALASM

CAD Tools

• Schematic Capture and PCB Layout:

  Orcad, Protel, Pcad, SuperRoute, NeuroRoute, CADInt

• Analysis and Database:

  Excel, Mathcad, Access, MySQL, Oracle, JDBC

• Mechanical Engineering, Drafting:

  Solidworks, CADKEY, Autocad, ProE