Here the goal is to increase product diversity to ensure future business remains sound. I will be working on a wide range of embedded systems employing the most upto date sensors for various applications.Autonnic Research own some patents which it would quite like to create prototypes for, test and put into production. New ideas for sensor/data aquisition systems will be explored, particularly using the current newer MEMs sensors.

At Breathing Buildings I am responsible for learning about the existing control system used in their products. I shall be looking into supporting/replacing the existing PLC used in the companiy control system.Here I was involved in designing and integrating the control system for novel ventilation systems in quite a few schools around the country.

I am doing some free C coding work using a PIC controlled CC1000 wireless device which will be used for all your automated bath running requirements. I am working with a very skilled friend of mine Ola Oni who I have worked with in the past. Ola Oni is highly intelligent and has three young chidren and is very conscientious. Most of our development between us takes place using Skype.I like to take time to read and visit my local library. I also help out a great deal in my local community building a shed for my neighbour and generally being a nice decent sort of fellow.

Development of embedded software using C for laser marking machines. Here I was involved in the complete redesign of a laser marking system from scratch using new electronics for the embedded control system. The electronics have been designed using a ColdFire processor running the MQX RTOS which also communicates to laser management nodes which have their own PICs using the CAN Bus.· To produce the laser marking that a customer requires the finished laser runs programs which tell it which shapes to mark. The designs/logos represented in the programs are typically imported by customers using professional CAD design software. A front end piece of software called Scriba3 is used to finalise the customers marking designs after which the marking program can be sent to the laser for actual marking. Customers designs typically include logos, pictures, text, barcodes and data matrix objects. All of these can be prearranged using Scriba3 on a PC and sent to the laser which can mark the designs onto, plastic, metal and glass components.· The laser beam whilst marking is steered around intelligently using two sets of mirros( or galvos) which are controlled through a SHARC DSP processor linked to the ColdFire processor. This combination allows the galvos to move very quickly and customers parts can be engraved very quickly with very elaborate and precise patterns.· The new lasers we have designed include two variants one called the Raptor which includes almost all parts manufactured within Electrox as well as the Rapide laser which has an externally manufactured Q-switch source. The new designed electronics, embedded software system is currently being tested and was demonstrated at the MACH show in April at the NEC in Birmingham. Results suggest the project has gone very well.

· Development of software for custom networked control systems based on Echelon's LonWorks protocol, Scene Master 8000 enables the dimming control of many lighting circuits. Embedded control systems running embedded software written in Neuron C (a variant of C). Designed and implemented both Visual Basic 6.0 Binder 8000 software used to set up and configure lighting control networks and embedded Neuron C which control the character of the nodes on the control network. Use of LonWorks Serial Protocol Analyser for diagnostics of problems on LonWorks fieldbus network. In Circuit Emulation and C software debugging using Echelon Nodebuilder PC based tool.· The Scene Master 8000 system comprises a centralised rack of powered dimmer cards which receive messages from scene plates and presence detector sensors through the LonWorks network. A PIC is commanded from a Neuron chip on which my firmware runs. The PIC controls local hardware on a node whilst the Neuron chip is concerned with the distributed communications between nodes and telling each node PIC what to do.· Designed a new network node having a 64K EEPROM which enabled large areas of circuits to be controlled from up to 4 scene plates which were bound into this node. This device 'The General Purpose Node' was designed to remove the limitations of Echelon's conventional binding scene plates to circuits. The GPN node facilitates installation of the architectural lighting systems by reducing scene set up times and allowing up to 4 bound in scene plates to control subsets of up to 240 circuits which the node addresses.· I also worked on the lighting control module or LCM which is not a complex Echelon node communication based system like the Scene Master 8000 where software runs on scene plates. Here the LCM only accepts simple volt free inputs from switches but the LCM is daisy chained with other LCMs. Reason for Leaving: LEAX Ltd had financial problems and went bust :(

·Control Software ‘EMMA’ running on DEC Alpha (OpenVMS) written in C. EMMA controls Multiprocessor system for control of Electron Beam Lithography Machine (Vector Beam 6/VBeam6) through TCP/IP and custom Ethernet messages. Designed software for embedded subsystems and ‘EMMA’. Advanced Lithography for Semiconductor Industry.Subsystems control - Electron Optics, Video, Pattern Generator, Stage, Vacuum and the EHT. Subsystems are VME BUS, 32 bit Radstone 26/41 Motorola 68000 and Power PC single board computers (SBC). My software was written in C and PASCAL and run on the VxWorks RTOS. I worked on Electron Optics, Video and Pattern Generator subsystems.Diagnostics C software written to find faults on High Speed Corrections Board and the Main Field DAC board. Diagnostics executed through RS232 link to HSC processor with results collected and imported into Excel spreadsheet for analysis. Analysis included least-squares fit on data to determine linearity of high precision DACs. Wrote On-Axis software to support a new detector on Ultra High Res VBeam6. The UHR system I developed software for along with the new final lens enables a resolving/pattern writing power of 3nm. Have also supervised new software engineers starting at Leica teaching them about the Alpha OpenVMS control system ‘EMMA’ and VME SBC subsystemsBegan development on new Image processing system to replace outdated TTL based hardware. The new system employs a VME BUS master Power PC processor controlling a slave Power PC based image processor through the use of remote procedure calls across shared memory. The project was to port very old Electron Optics PASCAL software to run on the master PPC and control gain and backoff of image captured from detectors as well as lens settings. Worked closely with hardware designers, register maps etc. I enjoyed working for Leica immensely. The Lithography business unit has been sold to USA.

· PC and embedded software design for franking machines. Use of the Keil compiler to build embedded C software for stand-alone embedded systems. These systems had no real-time operating system and were subject to failures. Keil compiler built C code for a 16 bit embedded Phillips microcontroller. Use of an RS232 serial protocol analyser. System Parameterisation software changes. Developed a PC emergency recovery tool written in C using symbol table from Keil compiler running on a PC for intelligent analysis and correction of data structures stored in the non-volatile CRC protected EPROM hex files.· Analysed failure problems occurring in returned Electronic Interface Units (EIU) using the C tool. This helped in the development of the more advanced Visual Basic serial link (RS232) tool for use on customer sites to repair live equipment. Developed Power fail protection for the embedded C systems on the EIU systems rendering future machines less likely to fail due to CRC faults in the non-volatile memory/EPROM (A power fail fault looks like fraud).· Development of the Visual Basic serial link (RS232) accounts and data capture recovery tool was required should customer data become corrupted. The tool allowed the reparation of the on board non-volatile memory allowing hardware to continue to be used by the customer effectively without much down time. Support for legacy systems, embedded C power fail protection should prevent the failing of future Pitney Bowes EIU systems.

· Embedded C Software for Video Conferencing equipment using ISDN, helped modify software for advanced 8x8 Inc video codec (H.263) for better video performance. Added ImageCom’s graphical user interface. JPEG compression of 8x8 image blocks using DCT.Here the company had bought the license to use a video codec produced by a company called 8x8 Inc. The companies existing products already used embedded C software which ran on the codec to produce H262 video compression/display etc. When an updated version of the codec software which supported H263 video was given to the company it became a requirement to integrate the company customisations into this new code. The companies customisations included their own graphical displays on the video screen as well as various document display options.As this development included almost no debugging tools it was very difficult and had to be done on a trial and error basis adding code in and seeing if it worked on the actual video conferencing hardware. It soon became apparent to me that once this project was completed there was little else for me to work on also the salary I received was poor in my opinion. Reason for Leaving: Poor salary increase after 1 year. Wanted to buy house.

1996 - 1997: Space Innovations Ltd. – Hambridge Road, Newbury, Berks Design Engineer ( company liquidation in 2000), salary £16.5K pa. Areas covered include Mathematics, Communications, DSP and hardware design using VHDL. Use of Matlab DSP toolkit / FIR filters. Spread Spectrum.· Development of a Small User Satellite Transponder(SUT) for the European Space Agency. VHDL simulation of designed ASIC. Production of test vectors using a C model allowing different modes of operation of the SUT ASIC to be explored. Involved in ordering the correct parts and overseeing PCB design. Modes of SUT communication include IOL and DTG which are inter-orbit link and direct to ground which require different approaches.· Production of the SUT Engineering Model circuit board employing a reconfigurable Altera FPGA for assessment of the final ASIC design. The Pakistan owned satellite is now in orbit and being spoken to by a ground station at the Rutherford Appleton LaboratoryMost of my work here involved the verification of a VHDL designed Small-user transponder ASIC. Initially I simulated the RTL model using test vectors derived from a C-model I wrote. Once the RTL model had been checked out the design was sythesised to gate level on a Unix workstation. Now the design included hazards caused by propagation delay through the circuits. These hazards were removed and an ADHL model was produced. This model could be fitted into an Altera Flex 10K100 FPGA for functional testing on a Engineering model circuit board. The theory went that once the FPGA was produced and included on the circuit board the BER atmosphere transmission characteristics could be investigated. However I remember having trouble being able to clock the FPGA at 40MHz, using Max Plus II we could only get the clock upto 30MHz. Reason for Leaving: Poor company support.

1994 - 1996: GEC Plessey Semiconductors Ltd – Roborough, Plymouth, Devon Design Engineer (bought by Mitel, Canada in 1998), salary £13.3Kpa.· Involved in both ASIC design methods as well as writing C programs to solve specific problems. Worked with the Microprocessor Business Unit, specialising in the design of low cost Microcontrollers based around the ARM Ltd. Advanced RISC Machine Chip. Projects included C Software: ‘Automatic Generation of VHDL Register Descriptions’, ‘Calculation of Crosstalk Effects for New Chip Layouts’ and a ‘Stimulus File Preprocessor’. Hardware projects involved the use of Cadence Verifault to determine if test vector coverage was effective for chip designs. Also designed an intranet based bug reporting system.From the end of 1994 to the middle of 1996 I worked for GEC Plessey Semiconductors in my first role since leaving University. Here I worked in a business unit that had the ARM license to produce designs based on the ARM7 and ARM 610. GEC Plessey Semiconductors produces integrated circuits for use in industry. Whilst working in the ARM business unit I was involved in the design of a microcontroller called 'Butterfly' which had an embedded ARM 7 core processor with UART's, oscillator, timers and DMA. Also I seem to remember we produced a semi-custom design with the ARM 7 core surrounded by a sea-of-gates so a customer could create their own custom microcontroller fairly cheaply.I was also involved in creating a verifault model of 'Butterfly' that could asses the node coverage when test vectors were applied to the design. I wrote a program to investigate issue's of crosstalk coupling that might arise in the 'Butterfly' design. Typically having tristated BUS lines over a clock line could be a problem due to capacative coupling between metal layers. My crosstalk analysis C program was helpful in rerouting the clock signal on 'Butterfly' to avoid any coupling problems.