I work in the following areas of electronic design:
Digital systems. While currently developing FPGA based designs this also includes embedded Systeme (microcontroller, memory, flash) as well as small single-chip colutions (e.g. using Microchip or Atmel microcontrollers)
High frequency transmission. Within a system normally the vendor-specific serial protocols are used, while external connections are increasingly optical with up to 100Gb/s.
Measurement and control. The analog interface consists of signal conditioning (using analog circuitry), analog input (using ADCs) and anlog output (using DACs). The control is usually implemented using FPGAs.
Power supply. Often underestimated a good power supply is the basis of reliable systemes and clean signals both in the analog and high-speed domains. Depending on the application a custom DC/DC design may be implemented or standard DC/DC modules used. For very low noise applications linear regulators can produce the best results.
E-CAD. I have worked with the following CAD systems: Altium Designer, OrCAD, Mentor Graphics, P-CAD, Eagle (and some others).
I have a degree as Master of Engineering (MEng) from the University of Durham, England
I am bilingual German/Englisch and thus am able to communicate in both languages effectively.
I use the Altium Designer as E-CAD system, for which I have a full Board Implementation licence and support contract.
For Xilinx FPGAs I have a set of Programming and Debugging Tools, but also experience and some tools for Altera FPGAs.
Measurements can be taked with an Agilent precision multimeter or a standard oscilloskope. For high-speed signals I also have a HP/Agilent DCA with modules with 40GHz electrical and 30GHz optical bandwidth. Another module allows for TDR und TDT measurements using pulses with 25ps rise-time.
In addition to standard power supplies I have a controllable Sorenson high-power supply that can source up to 40V and 25A.
