Engineering consulting concern, covering electrical and computer engineering. Knowledge base includes analog and high speed digital design, FPGA & CPLD design, synthesis and verification (VHDL and verilog, all current altera and xilinx devices), schematic capture through prototype verification, PCB layout fab and assembly. Particular specialization in digital video (past employee of leading edge companies such as Abekas and Pinnacle).

Design engineer at a company creating vision fusion systems - blending inputs from low light and IR cameras in a custom FPGA based platform architected on the way the human optic nerve & retina process images.

video hardware group. Primarily dealt with small hybrid (digital/analog) board designs requiring high density components and PCB layout. HD/SD-SDI and composite video + analog/AES audio.ProjectsICE3 : Transfer of technology from Tandberg UK implementing an HD MPEG4 encoder onto a mezzanine board of less than 30 square inches (original design filled a 1RU chassis). While some support was given to the general project, I focused on the input daughtercards (each input card about 10 square inches).

Most work focused on high speed (>200MHz) high density FPGA based architectures. Handled both support of existing designs (Corsica) and board level design of next core architecture (Corsica2).ProjectsCorsica2: Core design for Pinnacle's next live-to-air set of products. Essential technologies included multiple high density FPGAs (Stratix2, Cyclone2 - 1000 or 1500 pin packages), PCIe, SMPTE-292 HD-SDI and DVI I/O. Sole board level designer on project.

Responsibilities covered all technical aspects of new product R&D for products targeting the broadcast video market. This included not just design of new hardware, but also creation of all embedded CPU code and layout of PCB.ProjectsPFS875 : 12 bit 4 field transcoding video synchronizer. Core processes all contained within a single Xilinx 3S400 FPGA, including SDRAM controller, CCIR656 to composite (PAL/NTSC) video encoding, genlock and digital proc amp. All implemented in VHDL.Memory Controller for 1190 frame sync module. Implemented on Xilinx spartan2 FPGA, coded in VHDL.

with a professional video products company, said products covering the realtime and A/V market segments. Principal job responsibility involved R&D of new hardware.ProjectsPortions of VL1690 scan converter, including PAL/NTSC composite I/O and frame rate converter IC.DGx : video multiplexing & archive system. Involved IEEE 1394 + DV compression, and implementation of large blocks of core logic in Verilog and VHDL.ChromaKing : added RGB keying functionality to an existing windowing product. Output pixel rates were up to 140MHz.RGB7000 : VME card specific purpose video windowing board. Combined 270Mb optical input(s) with a hires RGB input by either a A/B window or a specified chroma key. The central component of the system was a single large FPGA (Xilinx Virtex2 1000 operating at 100MHz) and a block of DDR SDRAM.

Responsibilities ranged from R&D and new design through support and modification of legacy systems, including support of systems designed out of house.ProjectsCAGE(S) : upgrade of DSP based audio subsystem intended to work with a central host CPU board.JAMMIT : I/O and interface solution intended to be a low cost bridge between coin-op industry standard wiring harnesses and a PC based games platform.B6 : distributed memory system intended to exploit DMA parallelism and multiple memory buses to increase useful bandwidth on a 3D graphics platform.

Hardware Engineer with a leading edge digital video production tools company. Principal focus was engineering R&D. Contributed design efforts to several projects, and was project lead for 2.ProjectsENDEC : digital video encoder/decoder system. Converted analog composite (PAL/NTSC) to/from digital component (CCIR-601) video. All processing was completely digital, including reference lock, chroma demodulation and multilane adaptive comb filter. (Project lead)Standalone Defocus Box : infinitely variable video blurring engine. (Project Lead)Portions of A5100 digital video effects system, including control panel, defocus module and I/O modules.

Responsibilities included taking products from concept to production, while sustaining existing products. Took 5 designs into production in 2 years.Projects6.5: Wideband transcoding video timebase corrector + frame synchronizer, including digital remote control. Was the first product of it's kind in company history to be a single board architecture.CUTS: Combination video timebase corrector/framesync/switcher/digital video effects unit."dissolve" modification to CUTS unit, a personal project later adopted and put into production by the company.Computer based video still store/recall system: Involved work with PC ISA bus and creation of C code (~ 10,000 lines) for user interface.