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With over 26 years of experience, Leigh Pringle brings expertise in such areas as product definition and development, chip, board and system level circuit design, "Engineered" printed circuit board design, manufacturability, testability, engineering project management, software development and technical business management to your team. Over several years of consulting, a methodology has been developed which allows Leigh and, in some cases, additional specialists with which alliances have been formed to "fit in" the client’s environment and team when and where needed. Typical partnerships with a client have ranged from a few hours of analysis or "brainstorming" to significant development efforts lasting weeks or months. Many clients are still being supported after several years. The business built upon this methodology exists because of the commitment to trust and communication with every client. It is sustained by an efficient management philosophy which allows these services to be provided in an extremely cost effective manner to every client. Most work is performed in much shorter time than expected with typical design services. Leigh has consulted with and worked for such companies as Silicon Graphics, Convergent Technologies/ Unisys Corporation, Simucad, US Army/US Air Force/DoD, SAIC International, Loctronics, Questar Electronic Design, Ramko Research, Z-World Engineering, Applied Control Electronics, Intel Corporation, Grass Valley Group, Tronics USA, BC Engineering, Network Equipment Technologies, Unimedia/RGB Display Corp, Gale Corporation/Telecom Group and many others as well. Applications have included telecom products, computer/peripheral equipment (including ISA/EISA/PCI), audio and video, embedded systems, motion control, sports products, sensing and data acquisition, remote data gathering, instrumentation, ATE hardware, RV industry, automotive security, gaming and Windows applications for instrumentation, data acquisition and control. Experience includes military/NASA, commercial/industrial and consumer products. SUMMARY: Background and Experience. CIRCUITS/SYSTEMS: Design and test of analog, digital and mixed circuitry and processor based systems with popular logic families, VLSI, microprocessors/microcontrollers (Atmel, Intel, Mitsubishi, Motorola, Microchip, Cypress and MIPS), memory (including flash), PLDs and FPGAs (including Altera, AMD, Atmel, ICT, Lattice, Philips and Xilinx; with development in VHDL, ABEL-HDL, PALASM, ViewLogic, Synopsis, Xilinx-Foundation/ISE and Synario), ASICs, operational amplifiers, D/A and A/D converters and most other common devices. Training in ASIC design, FPGA design and design for testability. Designs include telecom products, computer/peripheral equipment (including PCI/EISA), audio and video, embedded systems, motion control, sports products, gaming, instrumentation and ATE hardware. Experience includes military/NASA, commercial and consumer applications. PCB design for SMT and through hole, double sided and multilayer. Re-design for cost reduction, manufacturability and testability. Product strategy and architecture. Atmel certified developer for AVR. CyPros PsoC certified designer. Altera ACAP certified Design Consultant/Partner. CAD/CAE/SIMULATION: User/Developer experience in electronic CAD/CAE, including HDL, logic, fault and circuit simulation with ModelSim, SILOS, LASAR, HILO, SPICE and PACSIM. Hardware accelerated logic and fault simulation with ZyCad. Design with various schematic capture systems including Synario-ECS, OrCAD, ActiveCAD, Cadence, PowerLogic and Viewlogic. PCB design with PADS/PowerPCB and Cadence-Allegro. ASIC testability analysis/insertion and test program generation with Sunrise tools. Use of VHDL and Verilog, logic synthesis, including Synopsis. CAE software interface design/integration. Development and implementation of corporate/ department CAD/CAE strategies. COMPUTERS/SOFTWARE: Software development in C for firmware through
application levels, Assembly (x86, 8x51, 80186, 80386EX, AVR, 68xx, 68K and PIC,
PSoC), FORTRAN and BASIC. UNIX (Sun and SGI), DOS, Windows 3.1 to XP, VMS (VAX)
and RTE (HP). Software development includes large modular/multi-person projects
under a source code revision control system and Windows applications for
instrumentation, data acquisition and control. Ethernet-TCP/IP LANs, Modems and
RS-232/RS-422/RS-485 communications. IR links. Custom protocols and software for
remote data acquisition. BUSINESS/MANAGEMENT/SALES/MARKETING:Project
management and scheduling, departmental management, company planning, financial
and business plans, corporate management/administration.Pre/post
sales and applications support.Sales
forecasting, development of marketing plans and presentations. ATE/TEST ENGINEERING:IC and board level test development.Test system and interface design.Testers include GenRad, Zehntel, Hewlett Packard, Tektronix, CheckSum and Sentry.IEEE-488 (GPIB) systemshardware/software design.Proficient use of common test equipment including oscilloscopes and logic analyzers. Software/Tools ModelSim, Leonardo Spectrum, Synopsis FPGA Express, Cohesion ECS, PADS-PowerPCB & PowerLogic, Altera-QuartusII and MaxPlusII (VHDL and Verilog), Xilinx-Foundation/ISE (VHDL and Verilog), ViewLogic, Atmel IDS, Synario (VHDL and Verilog), Microchip-MPLab, ActiveCAD, OrCAD, SILOS-III, ABEL-HDL, PALASM and a variety of compilers, assemblers, emulators (8051, x86, AVR, Mitsubishi, 68HCXX, PIC, PsoC, etc.) and debuggers (including Visual Studio C++, Borland C++ Builder, Keil C51, IAR-AVR (C for Atmel AVR), Codevision-AVR, IAR-740 (C for Mitsubishi), CCS-PCB/PCM (C for PIC processors). Hardware includes a Silicon Graphics Workstation, Linux Server and various PC compatible platforms. General test equipment/lab for prototyping, debug/emulation and device programming as well. The products listed herein are trademarks of the vendors providing them and may be protected by copyright.
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