What is your background?
Brian received his BSEE, Summa Cum Laude (1991) from Washington State University, with a focus on microprocessor system designs. Brian began his career at Boeing where he spent 5 years working on passenger entertainment systems including the Cabin Interphone and Public Address systems for the 777 aircraft and on a Phased Array antenna system designed to allow reception of Direct Broadcast Satellite feeds (i.e. DirecTV and Dish Network) live to in-service airplanes.
Following his time at Boeing, Brian spent 2 years at Intel working on developing implementation guidelines and signal integrity simulations to address integrity issues for high speed busses. Contributions during this time included layout and routing rules for the first 100MHz front dual processor front side bus and implementing Rambus (800MHz) with a memory expansion card. In this position, Brian assumed the role of technical lead of the signal integrity group where he was responsible for the training of new employees in Intel’s signal integrity methodologies.
After Intel, Brian spent 2+ years with Seattle area start-up Wavtrace (purchased by Harris) serving as technical lead in the design of the hub unit in the Wavtrace LMDS point-to-multipoint Wireless Broadband Access system. Responsibilities there included architecture development and implementation of a single board 10Gbps ATM switch.
Brian joined Synapse in 2001 and has been an integral part of Synapse's success and growth.
Synapse is a Gumstix Verified Design Consulting company and a TI Elite Design House.
What started your interest in Gumstix technology?
Our relationship and focus at Synapse is on Texas Instruments-basedsolutions. The Gumstix Overo COMs offer us a great starting point for OMAP-based projects without having to worry about the details of the core OMAP processor.
What current projects are you working on?
Am working on 3 projects: Architecture then Prototype for 2 types of video/sensor medical devices and we are in the later stages of development for a low power/body worn device. There are some others project in which I am involved for direction/guidance, just not as much hands on.
What Gumstix products are you using in the project?
Gumstix Overo COMs with a Synapse-designed custom carrier board
Why is Gumstix technology the best solution for the project?
Using Gumstix products gives us quick turn solutions that allow Synapse to focus our design resources on solving the hard problems without worrying about the details of the core OMAP processor and peripheral support.
What projects do you have planned for the future?
Consumer devices, medical devices, sensors, body worn devices, industrial systems
Will Gumstix technology be part of your future plans?
Yes, definitely.
If so, why?
As mentioned above in "why Gumstix".
