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Consulting in Electronic and Optical Systems, Embedded Processing, and Communications 

o        Board-level, Product, and System Design

o        Microprocessor/Embedded Systems Engineering

o        Hardware / Software Integration

o        ASIC and FPGA Design, Verification, and Synthesis

o        Optical Systems Engineering

o        Mathematical Modeling and Analysis

o        Tools and Methodologies


  

 

BOARDS, PRODUCTS, and SYSTEMS  

o        Fault tolerant Electronic and Optical products

Adapters, links, hubs, concentrators, switches, routers, management systems, LEDs, light pipes, fiberoptics, lasers, couplers, switches, filters/gratings, connectors, optical end nodes, amplifiers, converters, add-drop muxes, cross-connects.

o        Simulation and modeling of protocols, access methods, queuing, coding, transmission, …

o        Embedded intelligence using latest microprocessor/FPGA technologies.

o        International Standards-Based Technologies

§         Safety, Compliance, and Interoperability

§         LAN/WAN communications: SONET/SDH, T3/T1, Ethernet, FiberChannel, DSL, Cablemodem, Dial-up

 

CORE

METRO

EDGE

AGGREGATION

ACCESS

o        Switching and Routing: IP, ATM, Frame Relay, PPP, MPLS, …

o        Voice, video, and data communications and processing:

Encoding, encryption, compression, reformatting.

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MICROPROCESSOR SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

Design and development of specialty embedded-processor interfaces

 

Pentium

Alpha

PowerPC

i960

microSPARC

 

ARM

MIPS

MC68330

i8051

Microchip PIC

o        PLD / FPGA / ASIC design

o        PCI, Compact PCI, PCMCIA, VME/VSB, ISA/EISA, SBUS, ...

o        Sampling/timing, acquisition/conditioning, transmission/reception front-ends.

o        Analysis, design review, performance estimation, test methodologies.

o        Circuit, subsystem, and board-level design and layout. EMC, Thermal and safety issues.

o        Procurement support: selection and testing of components, flexible manufacturing options.

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SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE/SOFTWARE INTEGRATION

·         Structured, Object Oriented design methodologies.

1.      Emphasis on up-front analysis, documentation, and visualization; simulation and behavioral modeling, team building.

2.      Extensive self-test and diagnostic capability. Checks and balances via continuous verification and unit testing, source control, and bug tracking,

3.      Project tracking, early emulation/integration, flexible testbeds, and interoperability testing.

·         Embedded system programming; firmware, real-time control systems.

·         SQA and Testing via simulation, emulation, diagnostic testing, interoperability and compliance tests.

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ASIC and FPGA DESIGN ENGINEERING

·         Specification of functional behavior; conceptual research and design, partitioning.

·         Vendor and technology selection, modularity, and reuse of system resources.

·         Design and development using Verilog/VHDL and logic synthesis tools.

·         Documentation and diagnostics/software interface reviews.

·         Development of Macrocells and Intellectual Property.

·         Language interfaces (eg. PLI), bus-functional models, and test-bench environments.

·         Design, simulation, verification and testing of components.

·         I/O, packaging, and power requirements verification.

 

  ASIC LINKS, FPGAs, SIMULATION, VERIFICATION, IP

 

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OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING 

·         Performance specifications; dynamic range, error rates, reliability.

·         Optical loss budgets, dispersion/distortion analysis, synchronization issues.

·         Component research and selection: optical sources, modulators, detectors, passives (fiber, couplers), switches, cross-connects, multiplexors, ...

·         WDM and DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) systems, optical amplifiers, active switching, all-optical devices, non-linear optics components, ...

·         Configuration guidelines, testability issues, monitoring and managability.

See also Infozoic's Optical Networking page.

 

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SYSTEMS ANALYSIS 

·         Mathematical performance analysis and cost estimation.

·         Proof-of-concept engineering. Simulations, prototypes, demonstration units, ...

Here's a Mathcad animation (1.4MB) AVI of a nonlinear interaction of wavepackets.

Animation of two colliding wavepackets (sinusoidal waves within a Gaussian envelope)

Head-on collision in a Linear medium (2.05MB AVI)

Head-on collision in a Non-Linear medium (2.1MB AVI)

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TOOLS and METHODOLOGIES (EDA= Electronic Design Automation)

·         Operating Systems: Unix, Linux, NT, Win95/98, MacOS, ...

·         Documentation: MS-Word, Acrobat, Framemaker, Visio, ...

·         Programming environments: MSVC++, Borland, CodeWarrior, others

·         CASE, Source Control, Bug tracking, Project management, tracking

·         Remote Access: internet, telnet, ftp, x-windows, ...

·         HDL -- Source management, scripts: Verilog / VHDL, Perl, C/PLI, ...

·         Logic synthesis: Synplicity, Synopsys, Exemplar, ...

·         Simulation, co-simulation, hardware modeling, emulation, ... PLIs: various

·         Verification and Coverage: Verilog/VHDL, Vera, HDLScore, CoverMeter, Testbench Plus, 0-In, Verisity, Specman, Superlog, ...

·         Netlist / artwork generation and transfer: Allegro, Gerber, ftp

·         Floorplanning, Place&Route (ASIC/FPGA), Power Estimation, Design Rule Checking, Timing analysis

·         User documentation, field training materials, troubleshooting guides, …

 

TOOLS LINKS

 

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