Wayne Amacher has extensive experience in hardware design and in writing about it. He can take your marketing ideas; negotiate tradeoffs with management; then flesh out the architecture with respect to boards, components, power, cooling, layout, packaging, softare/firmware interfaces, and user interfaces. He can set up your microprocessor/DSP bus timing. The end result is a detailed design specification, approved by management, that your hardware and software engineers can design to.
Wayne is an excellent writer and has mastered almost all aspects of Microsoft Office.
Wayne’s skills include:
Hardware system architecture
Board design for embedded systems
High speed digital and analog design
PLL design
Familiarity with many microprocessors and DSPs used in embedded designs (IBM, Freescale, Atmel, and others)
Familiarity with buses such as I2C, SPI, PCI, EIA-232, Ethernet, local and parallel processor buses, SCSI, and others
Extensive experience with channel banks, ring generators, T1/E1/J1, FXO, FXS, BRI-ST, PRI, VoIP, Bluetooth
Familiarity with ISDN, DAAs and SLICs
Experience with all types of memory including hard disks and flash memory
FPGA and CPLD design
Multilayer high-speed backplanes with hot plug-in using BLVDS and GTLP
Stratum 1, 2 and 3 telephony timing
Experienced with safety, EMC, and ESD control performing to UL60950 and equivalents, CISPR 22/EN55022, the EN61000 series, TIA-968 (FCC part 68), and others
Very familiar with ITU-T standards, ANSI standards, Telecordia standards and many others
Experienced with OrCad/PROTEL. Has used PADS/Allegro viewers
Wayne has an MSEE in electrical engineering. Wayne is independent and will be very happy to take short-term tasks.
