Richard Wilson

Electronics and software engineer

Overview

With more than twenty years experience in software and embedded systems development, I have worked with a wide variety of clients from large corporate companies to small private businesses, developing both software and embedded hardware solutions.  My computer software skills are based on Microsoft technologies and languages, developing for commercial software projects. I have worked in many software areas including large database and reporting systems, commercial products and embedded software systems.

Electronics design and build, from prototypes to complete commercial hardware products, is a large area of my work.  Embedded systems based on PIC and AVR eight and sixteen bit controllers used in small devices all the way to higher end ARM32 silicon devices such as Cortex M3 for the larger more demanding solutions.   I am currently moving some projects into the FPGA arena, based on the Spartan 3AN devices using Altium Nanoboards.

I have extensive schematic and multilayer PCB design and layout skills using both Altium Designer and EasyPC Pro. 

PCB (Printed Circuit Board) design and fabrication to commercial standards (using Altium Designer) is an important part of my current every day work, I primarily work with surface mount devices both in prototyping and final product, down to BGA (Ball Grid Array) sized chips, soldered using reflow techniques.  I have many year of manually soldering boards with smd devices using stereo microscopes to aid placement.

My primary software development language is Microsoft C#, for software systems, and both C and assembler for the embedded firmware development.

I spent many years as a freelance commercial photographer in the 1980s, working with major companies like St Ivel, Intel, Motorola, producing technical product photography and brochure work for publication and exhibition.