Professional

Overview

  • Electronic Engineer specialising in hardware design and embedded software development
  • Post-graduate honours degree (First class)
  • IPC certified PCB designer (Top Dog award)
  • More than twenty years experience
  • Product examples - a small sample of my work
  • Historical publications

Hardware skills

  • Circuit design - Embedded systems, low-noise analog, RF, power, high-speed digital
  • FPGA development - Xilinx, MicroBlaze, PicoBlaze, ISE/EDK, Altera, Quartus
  • PCB layout - Multi-layer, BGA, micro-via, RF, impedance control, flex (IPC standards compliant)
  • Project management, design for C/A-tick, RoHS and CE compliance, EN, FCC, AS/NZS compliance

Software skills

  • Linux kernel device drivers - x86, 68k, Coldfire, ARM, Xilinx
  • Linux application development - embedded, console, X11 GUI
  • Embedded assembly - PIC, Atmel, 8051, Motorola/Freescale
  • ANSI C, VHDL, Perl, Bash

Recreational / Hobby

Hiking

Photography


Woodworking

Electronics

Software

email: info at stevenmerrifield.com