John Blyler is a former Design News senior editor (now contributing), covering the hardware-software embedded electronics, IoT, robotics, and advanced manufacturing spaces. With a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, he has years of hardware-software-network systems experience as an engineer and editor. John has co-authored books related to RF design, system engineering, and electronics for IEEE, Wiley, and Elsevier. https://www.designnews.com/author/john-blyler

John is a senior editor with Semiconductor Digest, a leading publication covering the semiconductor capital equipment industry.Through a mix of news, contributed articles and staff-written articles, Semiconductor Digest is dedicated to providing information about the design, manufacturing, packaging and testing of semiconductors and other types of electronic devices, including MEMs, LEDs, displays, power electronics, optoelectronics/photonics, biomedical devices, solar cells, thin film batteries and flexible electronics. Our focus is on the unique requirements of each of these devices in terms of the design tools, process equipment and materials, and test equipment.

· Subject matter expert and engineering consulting for semiconductor, hardware-software, and systems engineering industries. Customers include defense, commercial and academic markets.· Marketing editorial content and ideas· Editor-in-Chief for several systems engineering trade and professional journals· Freelance content/editorial in semiconductor, embedded (IoT, automotive), RF-Wireless systems space. Publishers include Informa, SemiDigest, Lectrix-ITEM, Aspencore, Extension Media. Clients including Mentor-Siemens, Dassault Systemes, Jama Software, NXP, TI, Mouser, HP, Broadcom, Cadence, Intel, ARM, and others. www.jbsystech.com

Digital solutions marketing for advanced digital test and measurement (T&M) and quantum computing solutions in commercial and Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industries.

Participate as Accellera's designated representative in the IEEE P1685 IP-XACT working group. The four-year long Accellera work on updating the 2014 standard was handed off to the IEEE in Jun 2021.

Technical editor for Accellera-IEEE standard: IP-XACT

Senior editor for Design News covering electronics, RF-Wireless, semiconductor, energy, and more.

Create and teach graduate online engineering courses:· EECS X491.98 Systems Engineering: Tools and Methods· EECS X429.2 Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex Systems · EECS X491.94 System Design and Integration

Since its founding in 1993, the RMS Partnership has been at the forefront of encouraging and supporting Government-Industry cooperation. For this reason and others, this RMS Partnership continues to serve as a place where RMS&L professionals and non-professionals alike turn for expert knowledge, direction and networking. The long-standing experience and professional integrity of the RMS Partnership has helped to establish its reputation as an "honest broker" among its partners and colleagues in government, academia and industry.

Founding advisor for the online graduate systems engineering program (1999). Currently an affiliate professor, developing and teaching graduate systems engineering courses. Our focus is on real-work engineering, typically in hardware-software product development.

· Program Manager of all corporate editors (6 full-time and several freelance editors). Publications in semiconductor (Solid State Tech), chip design and embedded systems. www.extensionmedia.com · Wrote for all publications. Secured sponsorships with major customers for content vehicles like portals, eletters, custom content, etc.

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· Managed group of 8 mid- to senior-level programmers (C/C++, Java, and VB) to develop software products. Coordinate development with off-shore programming groups. · Project engineer for new software applications and enhancements. GenRad representative for review of SEI-CMMI. · Experienced with IC design, CAD tools, Design for Manufacturing (DFM) apps, simulation and CASE tools. Worked closely with sales and marketing.

· Designed integrated hardware and software (C/C++) semiconductor measurement systems to improve the manufacture of Silicon epitaxy wafers.· Evaluated complex measurement systems at customer sites.

· Project lead for assessment of the division's systems engineering capabilities (using SECAM) at major DOE super-fund clean-up activity. Developed risk analysis, SE plans, middle-out engineering processes.· Systems engineering lead for integrating best practices and standards (IEEE, INCOSE, SEI, EIA, ISO) into current HW/SW development. Utilized CASE (RDD-100) and other tools. · Member of source evaluation board for subcontractor selection.

· Supervised the technical design, development, testing, operation and maintenance of data acquisition and processing systems for million dollar airborne and lab programs involving. · Managed a staff of 12 interdisciplinary engineers, i.e., electronic (hardware and software) and mechanical. Required security clearance.· Developed proposals, created work breakdown structures (WBS), manpower estimates, material requirements, and design-to-cost analysis.

· Developed/supervised environmental testing of Space Shuttle/Space Station systems. Required security clearance.· Developed performance and environmental testing plans and conducted post analysis for component / sub-system / vehicle level trades (Vibration, Temp cycling, T-Vac, EMC, etc).

· Responsible for total life cycle design and hardware/software development of data acquisition (instrumentation) test systems, for both lab and flight environments. MIL-810 test standard experience. DOD-NAVAIR. Required security clearance.· Design filters (bandpass), root-mean-square (rms) and other analog circuits, microcontroller based (hardware-software) data acquisitions modules with multiplexed and modulated telemetry systems for airborne Alternate Fuels Program (AFP). Programmed FFT programs in Fortran. Wrote in assembly language for microcontroller. Performed power spectral density analysis for missile shock and vibration.· Experience on various fighter-bomber aircraft and associated missile-weapons systems.