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Electronic Hardware Design
 | Software-Defined Radio Devices: digital
up-converters (DUC), digital down-converters (DDC), digital direct
synthesizers (DDS), high-speed A/D and
D/A converters, IF signal conditioning and filtering |
| Microcontrollers and Digital Signal Processors:
Atmel AVR, Microchip PIC, 8051, Analog Devices Sharc 2106x, TI
TMS320C3x and C4x, Motorola 56000 |
| Analog and Interface Circuitry: A/D and D/A
converters and signal conditioning, phase-locked loops (PLL), passive and
active filters, oscillators, amplifiers, switching power supplies,
antennas, ultrasonic transducers, fiber optics |
| High-Speed Digital Circuitry: CMOS and PECL logic
up to 2 GHz,
multiple supply voltages, transmission line effects and terminations |
| Complex PLD and FPGA Design: Altera CPLD and FPGA
devices developed in Verilog and AHDL |
| Mixed-Signal Circuit and PCB Design: local power
supply isolation and filtering, ground plane cutting,
electromagnetic shielding |
| Bus and Card Standards: PCI, cPCI, PMC, VME, PC104,
ISA |
| Printed Circuit Boards: CadSoft Eagle 4.1 design
for 2- and 4-layer
boards, subcontracting for larger multilayer designs,
surface mount technology (SMT) with 0402, TQPF, and BGA packages |
Software
| Software-Defined Radio Techniques: dynamic range (SFDR)
and intermodulation (IMD) measurement,
software algorithms for baseband I/Q modulation, demodulation,
filtering and automatic gain control (AGC) |
| Digital Signal Processing: FIR and IIR design, FFTs
and windowing, PID control loops |
| Embedded microcontroller applications
in C |
| User libraries and example code in assembly language and C
| Test
programs and diagnostics for debugging and production test
| Windows programs for user interface |
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