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XLT Heartstream XLT Defibrillator,  1998-2000

System and main controller design.  Overall product validation, test, and regulatory qualification testing.  This was the last product designed by the resuscitation group of Agilent Technologies (previously Hewlett Packard, now Philips) in McMinnville, OR.


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Inovise Heart Sound Detection Algorithm, 2001-2003

I developed the heart sound detection algorithm used in the Inovise Audicor product.  This was an extensive DSP algorithm project that involved data collection, biomedical research and sensitivity-specificity evaluation.  You can view the resulting published application at the USPTO  (20040267148   30Dec04  Method and System for Detection of Heart Sounds) or for a more easily digested treatment see the Inovise pdf referenced below.
You can see the Audicor products at www.Inovise.com.  To see an overview of the algorithm go here: http://www.inovise.com/audicor/cortech.htm and open this link

AUDICOR COR TECHNOLOGY HEART SOUNDS ALGORITHM BRIEF



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Large Industrial Research Test System, 2004

I can't tell you what it is (not that I don't know -it's proprietary to the customer) but it has 128 RF channels and puts out about 1.3kW of power.  On this project I did much of the system design and integration as well as design and layout of the multichannel output circuit boards.  This was a project co-ordinated between 7 local area engineering contractors including EE (analog, digital and RF), SW and ME disciplines.




System features:
System board size 13x14 inches. 
Real time OS with Windows running as an app.
High performance backplanes.
FPGA interface and control circuits.
128 programmable switching supplies.
128 synchronized DDS's.
Rack mounted 2kW power supply.
Matched delay clocks for 16  8 channel boards.
Matched delay signal routing for 128 channels.
Power Pad through the board thermal management.

Some additional photos of the components:

Rack
                            Output Cabling
protoBD
                               Prototype circuit
8chBD
                                 8ch Board 
2ch BD
                       2ch Prototype Board
8chBD
                           1 Channel  
FPGA
                                     FPGA
OutBD
                           Output Board





Smaller Projects


Special Function Compact Flash interface card,  2005
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