Award Winning
Designs:
·
Grand Prize in Motorola
E-field sensor design contest. Designed an XY matrix, touch screen based, user
interface using the new Motorola E-field sensor and an 8-bit 68HC908 Nitron microcontroller.
The design involved electronic, firmware (‘C’ language) and PCB design.
Resulted in payment from Motorola. Shown on Motorola website and J and S Promotions website: http://www.jandspromotions.com/efield2003/grand.htm
· 4th place in Zilog international
design contest "Flash for Cash". Designed an e-mail to speech converter using the new Zilog 8-bit Z8 Encore microcontroller. The design involved electronic, firmware (‘C’ language) and PCB design. Resulted in payment from Zilog. Shown
on J and S website: http://www.jandspromotions.com/zilog2003/h-4217.htm
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1st and 3rd
place in Motorola/Circuit Cellar magazine international design contest "Flash Innovation 2003". Designed a microprocessor debugger module and an XY matrix, touch screen based, user interface using the
new 68HC908 Nitron microcontroller. The designs involved electronic, firmware
(‘C’ language), PCB and Verilog HDL design. Resulted in payment from
Motorola. Shown in Circuit Cellar Ink magazine #160, Motorola website and Circuit
Cellar website: http://www.circuitcellar.com/fi2003/F194.htm and http://www.circuitcellar.com/fi2003/F195.htm
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4th place in
Texas Instruments/Circuit Cellar magazine international design contest "Design MSP430" (13 Countries represented). Designed
a handheld digital multi-meter with built-in, user programmable, boost power supply using the new TI 16-bit MSP430-1121 microcontroller.
The design involved electronic, firmware (‘C’ language) and PCB design. Resulted in payment from Texas Instruments. Shown in Circuit Cellar Ink magazine #143 and Circuit Cellar Web site: http://www.circuitcellar.com/msp430/hg.htm
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3rd place in
Zilog/Circuit Cellar magazine international design contest "Driven to Design 2000". Designed low cost e-mail data logger using
the new Zilog 8-bit Z183 mixed signal processor. The design involved electronic,
firmware (Assembly language) and prototype board design. Resulted in payment
from Zilog. Shown in Circuit Cellar Ink magazine #131, Zilog website and Circuit Cellar website: http://www.circuitcellar.com/zilogdtd2000/Third.htm
· 3rd place in Atmel/Circuit Cellar
magazine international design contest "Design Logic 2001". Designed PowerPC bus monitoring device using the new Atmel FPSLIC
System on a chip (Built-in FPGA and AVR processor). The design involved electronic, firmware (Assembly language), PCB and
Verilog HDL design. Resulted in payment from Atmel Corp. Shown in Circuit Cellar
Ink magazine #137 and Circuit Cellar website: http://www.circuitcellar.com/dl2001/slic-3rd.htm
