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Chip Design
  • 2001 Clinical Laser Systems developed a new X-Ray Film Scanner based on a proprietary laser and fiber-optics scanning technique.
    • Programmed Altera 1K and 3K EPLDs:
      • CPU Interface to the Motorola Coldfire Microprocessor.
      • Image Generation.
      • Stepper Motor Controller.
      • Brushless Motor Phase Lock Loop.
      • Laser Controller.
  • 2000 WindRiver's Doctor Design Services developed a high speed Internet Packet Processor for dotRocket. Each unit contained up to four boards, with each board employing four MIPS7000 Microprocessors.
    • Programmed the 3 Altera 3K EPLD chip set for each board:
      • PCI Arbitration.
      • Microprocessors reset functions.
      • Various Board Features.


  • 2000 Banner Engineering will soon be offering an Inspection System based on a 640 x 480 area sensor Camera.
    • Responsible for the Altera 20K100 EPLD processing engine:
      • CPU Interface to the Motorola 860.
      • 4 port SDRAM Video Buffer and Template store.
      • 3 port SRAM Video Cache.
      • NTSC Video Output Port.
      • Precision Image Rotation.
      • Five level Image Decimation.
      • Pattern Find using normalized coefficient calculation.
      • Template Matching.
      • Run Length Streak Encoding.
  • 1999 - 2001 Wintriss Engineering offers highly integrated smart cameras. Built into the Opsis 5150 Advanced Line-scan Camera are the Motorola 860 Power PC and Altera EPLDs used for camera control and high speed image processing.
    • Responsible for the four Altera 10K EPLDs:
      • 10K50E Headboard chip features:
        • Precision System Clock Generation and CCD Timing and Control.
        • Digital Offset and Gain Calibration.
        • Edge Tracking.
        • 10 to 8,4,2,1 bit Lookup Table.
        • Pixel Packing.
      • 10K50E and 10K130E Processor Chip features:
        • CPU Interface to the Motorola 860.
        • SDRAM Video Buffer.
        • Six Averaging and Thresh-holding filters.
        • Image Pattern Matching.
        • Run Length Streak Encoding.
  • 1998 Tadpole-RDI offers Sun Ultra Spark Workstations in a notebook configuration.
    • Responsible for integrating Sun's Creator 3D Graphics card into RDI's product.
    • Implemented a 10K50 Altera EPLD to provide a digital version of a complex Brooktree RAMDAC.
    • This true 3D graphics board can generate 800x600 images at 120 frames per second providing each eye with its own image at 60 frames per second (with compatible glasses).
  • 1997 Kaiser Electro-Optics
    • Designed a scan converter that input either RS-170 standard B/W video or a lower resolution FLIR video for output to a VGA display. A single XC3142 Xilinx EPLD was used for this miniature design. This provided a soldier with a head mounted display of either a day time camera or a night vision FLIR.
  • 1994-1996 Florod Corporation provided custom equipment for manufacturing. Focusing on Laser Micro-Machining Systems and then expanding to include Automatic Inspection Machines.
    • Designed a versatile circuit board set that speeded production of custom Laser Micro-Machining Systems.
      • Altera 7K EPLDs were used to facilitate unique customer requirements for such systems as the MEL70.
    • The VP-064 Processor in the Automatic Inspection Machine used 3 Altera 7K devices for its chip set:
      • VME Host Interface.
      • Memory Control.
      • Command and Status.
    • The Imaging System Board in the Automatic Inspection Machine used 5 Altera 7K devices for its chip set:
      • VME Host Interface.
      • Video Timing and Control.
      • Offset Calibration.
      • System Control.
      • Dynamic Auto-Focus.
  • 1992-1994 Vision Ten Inc. designed X-Ray Scanners and Work Stations for the medical industry. Using a Loral 6000 element CCD sensor, X-Rays were digitized and sent to a PC for processing.
    • Responsible for all electronics design of X-Ray Scanners and Work Stations:
      • Scanner Circuit Boards used for CCD control and digitizing.
      • ISA Card to input data into a PC.
      • All digital logic was implemented in Altera 5K devices.
  • 1989-1992 Silicon Systems Technology was a design house based in Singapore with a contract from a European consortium to design an ASIC processor for a highly classified research project.
    • Architect and chief designer of the Tiger Chip.
    • Lead the 7 man design team that implemented the design using Mentor Graphic Genesel tools.