Alan Macintyre

Irvine, California, USA IEEE Orange County Section
Special Skills

Technical Specialties

Microcontroller based product development and cost/performance upgrades. Experience includes design of specialized controllers, embedded networks, automated test systems, and commercial products. Industries: avionics, medical, automotive, entertainment, and HVAC. Products: networked motor servos and sensors, camera and gimbal controllers, battery chargers, lighting controllers, hand-held instruments, data logging, precision frequency measurement, and Windows programs for device configuration and test. Processors: ST STM32F4/H7, Sitara ARM Cortex-A8, ESP32, Microchip PIC. Peripherals: DAC, ADC, FPGA, CPLD, EEPROM, LCD, H-bridge. Analog: video, power supplies, signal conditioning, PLLs, current loops. Sensors: temperature (RTDs, thermocouples, thermistors), humidity, strain, encoders, resolvers. Communications: CAN, Ethernet, EtherCAT, SPI, I2C, USB, RS-232, RS-422, RS-485, MIDI, DMX, Modbus.

Additional Specialties

C, assembly languages, FreeRTOS, TI-RTOS, Keil RTX, PC-lint, Keil uVision5, Eclipse IDE, TI Code Composer Studio, CodeWarrior, Microsoft Visual Studio, Xilinx ISE, Lattice Diamond, Altium and OrCAD schematic entry, Git, and MS Office.

Technical Expertise

Digital Design
Test Equipment/Systems
Analog Design
Communications
Microprocessors
Simulation and Modeling
Servo/Control Systems
Power Systems
Contact
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experience
Consultant
A M Consulting
education
University of California-Irvine
Bachelor of Science
Physical Sciences , 1991
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