Brian Donaldson Email & Phone Number

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Kitchener, Canada Area

Acquired by Blackline Safety

• As a member of the silicon platform team, I was responsible for the design, integration and verification of various subsystems, digital interfaces, and silicon for future and current BlackBerry products, including the.
• Wi-Fi subsystem, including PCIe, SDIO, clock and power interfaces
• Bluetooth/BLE subsystems, including interfaces such as UART, PCM, I2S
• GNSS subsystem
• Cellular (EDGE/UMTS) modems
• Validation of Application Processor silicon associated with the above subsystemsWorked closely with chipset vendors (Marvell, Qualcomm, Broadcom, TI, CSR) during their silicon design process to ensure interoperability.

• Was project engineer on X48 infantry transceiver, and was responsible for system and hardware design of the product. Generated all system level specifications and test procedures, and managed the day to day activities.
• Design of the controller PCBs, which included microprocessor, DSP and FPGA components.
• Design and PCB layout of the low noise fast hopping frequency synthesizer, which combined direct digital synthesis with conventional PLL type synthesizer components.
• Full MIL-SPEC testing of units (RF parametric, environmental) to ensure compliance with system requirements.
• Software architecture, C coding, and testing according to DO178B (Software Considerations in Airborne Systems and Equipment Certification). I was the lead in this activity and achieved the first certification for the.

• Responsible for hardware/software design, bring-up and testing of the Control and DSP units in the B81 Full Duplex Data Networking Radio. Tasks included:
• Mixed signal board design, including digitization of high speed I/Q channels and processing of spread spectrum signals using a DSP and an FPGA.
• Software design, implementation and testing of bootloader, FLASH programming utilities and low level drivers in C/C++.
• Design documentation (unit and software specifications, test plans) and verification (electrical, software, and environmental testing).