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Working on another disk drive.

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Deadline Specialists, Inc. is an engineering consulting firm specializing in hardware, firmware, and software for embedded systems. See www.deadlinespecialists.com for more details.

Louisville, Co, Us

Open source OCAP RI

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Instrumental in the design, implementation and debug of the firmware for a next generation multi-channel, multi-room digital video recorder (DVR). Successfully debugged a vast array of microprocessor and hardware level concurrency, caching and communication issues.Responsible for all the video processing firmware including frame rate conversion; converting video between the various standard progressive and interlaced modes (480i, 480p, 1080i, 1080p and 720p); MPEG video frame playback reordering; program identification (PID) setup, remapping and filtering; video stream start code analysis for indexing; and pan and scan, letterboxing, pillar boxing, aspect ratio conversion and other scaling firmware.Responsible for the firmware to implement key management, encryption, decryption, scrambling and descrambling of the audio and video data streams for digital rights management (DRM).

A lot of stuff

Van Buren Township, Mi, Us

Several contracts over the years to test the performance and compatibility of CD and DVD disk drives used in automotive applications.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Small contract to help in the due diligence process of a technology purchase.

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Small contract to help architect a new version of the Cornice disk drive.

Interface firmware for a removable platter ATA/ATAPI disk drive.

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Several different contracts over the years consulting on various aspects of disk drive firmware and disk drive firmware bugs. This included interface, caching, defect management, read/write and other miscellaneous subsystems.

Implemented all the software for a CD and DVD disk test station. This included all the software to unlock, decrypt and read copy protected DVD disks.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Reference firmware for an ATA disk drive controller chip.

Contract to help debug and enhance firmware for an ATA disk drive.

Our firm was contracted to architect and implement all of the firmware for a compact flash type I form factor disk drive (microdrive). With three consultants we did this, from scratch, in record time.

Contract to create the software for test racks used to test 1394 disk drives.

Firmware for a next generation 1394 transport protocol core.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Architected the firmware and hardware aspects of the caching system and other subsystems of every 2.5" Seagate drive that was designed in Scott's Valley from 1991 through 2001.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Dresden, Sachsen, De

Debugged the hardware and firmware for a CD drive based music and advertising on hold telephone system.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Small contract to perform a design review of a new generation of ATA disk drive controller chip.

Contract to create and debug interface firmware for a disk drive startup.

Wellington, Wellington Region, Nz

Architected several reference firmware sets for ATA, SCSI, and 1394 disk drive controllers using Texas Instruments DSP cores.

Architected firmware for new generations of ATAPI and 1394 CD and DVD disk drive controllers.

Ii, Fi

Small contract to test the performance and compatibility of one of their disk drives.

Austin, Tx, Us

Consulted on the design of a new generation of ATA IDE disk drive controller chip.

Consulted on performance and compatibility issues on a micro cassette tape drive backup systems for personal computers.

Firmware for a disk drive.

Consulted on the design of the interface and servo firmware for the 2.5" drive designed at the DEC Colorado Springs facility. Also consulted on the design of a custom ATA interface chip.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Designed and implemented the firmware for an ATA disk drive.

Contract to create interface firmware for a disk drive.

Blainville, Quebec, Ca

Consulted on the architecture, design and implementation of the firmware for an embedded system.

Small contract to test the interface performance and compatibility of an ATA IDE disk drive.

San Jose, California, Us

Contract to debug the firmware on the Magnum AT disk drive.

Designed the data caching system for one of the very first ATA IDE disk drives every produced, the Miniscribe 8051A 40 megabyte 3.5" drive. Architected the firmware for the first 1" high 3.5" ATA IDE disk drive.

Designed some analog hardware, much of the digital hardware and all the firmware for a new generation of fully automatic gas chromatographs which were used for industrial hygiene monitors.

Designed the drive control firmware and hardware for an autonomous military robot. The PROWLER robot can be seen in the movie "Code of Silence" staring Chuck Norris.