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High speed digital design, lvds, multi layer pcb design.
Project management, Thermal design, Design for EMC and signal integrity.
Altium designer, VHDL, SOC, Altera FPGAs, Stratix, Cyclone, NIOS II, Quartus, Modelsim.
Linux server(Debian/Ubuntu), HTML, MySQL, Mail, Apache, PHP, groupware, SVN.
C, Assembly Language Programming.
Cadac is a leading manufacturer of live sound reproduction systems in the UK. It provides innovative electronic design and excellence of audio quality, supported by reliable performance and service simplicity in the great British tradition.
Led a small R&D
team designing high-end audiosystems. Primarily responsible for
designing the system architecture of a large digital audio mixing
engine aimed at the theatre and live entertainment market.
The
system consisted of audio racks and a DSP engine which is capable of
connecting to a number of control surfaces. Each component
communicated over a 800Mbps copper link up to 100m in length which
would transfer the audio data to all racks in the system within 1
audio frame. The infrastructure is capable of up to 512 inputs and
512 outputs at 192k 32-bit samples per second or 1024 ins and outs at
96k samples per second.
Data transfer within the audio rack
were passive, high speed lvds backplane while the DSP rack consisted
of an active backplane capable of transferring over 18Gbps of data.
The mixing system utilised FPGAs and the audio processing
used SHARCs, implemented in C, Sharc assembler and VHDL.
Psion Dacom were leaders in Europe designing and manufacturing mobile communications products such as modems and Ethernet products.
My role was providing solutions for the medium-volume production of their products, an interface between R&D and the production Engineers.
Worked with a small team on the hardware and software of the Audio Kinetics Es-Lock 1-11 and 1-12 Audio/Video/Film machine Timecode synchronising and editing system.
BSc with Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Hatfield Polytechnic.
TEC Diploma in Technology(Engineering)(Formerly OND) with Distinction Nene College Northampton.
Member of the Institute of Engineering Technology
Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Member of the Audio Engineering Society
Portable and modular VHDL design.
Thermal design of complex systems.
Programme and project management.
Enjoying music and keen to learn playing keyboard and guitar.