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Bob Elkind — the E-Team
7118 SW Lee Road
Gaston, OR 97119
ph. 503.359.4903 cell: 503.709.1985
email: eteam@aracnet.com
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Consulting Design Engineer, for
hire
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Summary
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video/imaging technologies
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professional broadcast television
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designing high-speed systems
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ASIC/FPGA/board design (incl. AHDL, VHDL)
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product-level design/architecture
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product planning and definition.
Experience
Electro Scientific Industries 1998-2001
Senior Design Engineer
Primarily tasked with rescuing projects in trouble. Worked on six
projects in three years, designed 20-30 FPGAs, designed 5 circuirt boards.
Coordinated with outside assembly houses, distributors, purchasing, and
manufacturing/production planning groups.
Consulting 1996-1998
consulting and contracting for companies in the Portland, Oregon area.
Videotek 1995-1996
Team leader.
Organised from ground zero a design team of 5 engineers (including myself)
in the Beaverton area, for a company based in Pennsylvania.
Arranged office lease space, furnishings, equipment, services, etc.
Recruited and hired senior video engineers from the local area.
Led the design of a desktop video signal filtering product with exciting
potential and core noise filtering technology to the point of 6 months
from initial shipment.
Tektronix TV Test & Measurement 1990-1995
Sr. Engineer
SDA-601 project leader and design engineer
Product description:
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Handheld serial digital video analyser and format checker.
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Carried product development from initial concept and product definition
phases through shipping release, in 18 months; as project leader, architect,
and primary designer.
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Recruited and hired contractor for uP SW design.
Other project and design contributions:
Primary design and feature set definition responsibility for innovative
digital video analysis and serial interface circuitry in
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three waveform monitors
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three signal generators
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two frame syncs spanning composite and component digital video signal standards
These are products which earned Tek an Emmy award for contributions to
serial digital video technology development (and made a bunch of money,
too).
Significant expertise, miscellaneous responsibilities, and other accomplishments/contributions:
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Professional relationships with designers, marketing managers, and engineering
managers involved in the television broadcast/distribution/creation business,
including both equipment manufacturers and Tektronix customers. These relationships
have helped to anticipate marketplace demands for product definitions,
features, and strategies.
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In-house consultant on digital video error checking methods, digital video
format standards and protocols, and implementation and verification of
serial digital video signal/data interfaces; and allied user-interface
methods and issues.
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Inventor of EDH error detection method, standardised as SMPTE RP-165 in
1992; and inventor of derivative proprietary error detection/checking mechanisms
(including 0APCRC, for which a patent was issued).
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In-house consultant on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology
selection and design; with substantial experience in Xilinx/ATT 3K series
and Xilinx 4K series devices, design, and development tools.
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Liaison to SMPTE television engineering committees, actively participating
in the following areas:
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digital television monitoring and diagnostics (served as group secretary
for three years)
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studio/plant wide monitoring/control methods and protocols
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studio signal format standards and coding methods
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signal handling practices and standards
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ANC data and embedded digital audio formatting standards and studio practices
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high definition /advanced television standards
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Design of fundamental carry-save adder cell on which most ADG multiplier
cells are based, resulting in 65% reduction in multiplier die area, permitting
dramatic improvement in ASIC DSP design density and cost.
Prior Work Background:
Design contracting 1988-1990
Hired gun for digital logic design in the Portland area.
Clients included Cadic, Tektronix Logic Analysers, and Tektronix Portable
Oscilloscopes
Bipolar Integrated Technology 1983-1988
Co-founder of startup bipolar IC manufacturer, a Tektronix/Intel spinoff.
I actively participated in the initial business plan development and raising
of seed capital, and was responsible for initial product planning, definition,
architecture, and design; and EECAD tools selection.
As part of a small, close team of designers, I was intimately involved
in the entire ASIC design process including:
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process design
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manufacturing yield analysis
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package design
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circuit layout
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production tester selection
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circuit architecture, design, and simulation
I served as project leader of a core team of 4 logic designers developing
a 64-bit IEEE floating point math chipset providing (at the time) the world’s
fastest monolithic add/subtract, multiply, divide, and square root. The
resulting products were the bread and butter revenue producers for the
company throughout its existence.
Floating Point Systems 1981-1983
Digital Equipment Corporation 1979-1981
Itel 1977-1979
System architect and designer for high-performance, high-end ECL mainframe
and array processor computers, including a 370-compatible mainframe and
the DEC VAX 8600 (for which I was designer/architect of the main data paths
and clock distribution systems).
US Patents
Patents are for arithmetic architecture, and for digital video analysis
and error-checking. For each of these patents, I am the primary inventor.
4,972,362 5,153,848 5,208,666 5,282,034
5,485,199 5,832,003 5,949,495 6,119,258
Contact Information
7118 SW Lee Road — Gaston OR 97119
503.359.4903 (phone) 503.709.1985 (cell)
eteam@aracnet.com
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