Capabilities - Circuits, antennas, spectrum
RF, electromagnetics and analog
Where signal integrity stops being a software problem.
What that means in practice
- RF and microwave circuit design, analysis and measurement
- Electromagnetic behavior: coupling, shielding, grounding and return paths
- Antenna selection, placement and radiated performance
- Software-defined radio, spectrum analysis and signal characterization
- EMC and EMI investigation ahead of formal compliance testing
- Mixed-signal and power-integrity review of boards that will not behave
- Depth
- Circuit-level and field-level work, including programmable-logic implementations of radio functions and laboratory characterization of real hardware.
- Who I bring in
- EMC laboratories, antenna specialists, microwave test houses.
- Scoping this
- If a board passes on the bench and fails in the chamber, this is the conversation to have.
Where I write about this
The newsletter follows what is changing here: one drawing, one decision worth revisiting, one tool used in anger, and what I am seeing across the network. Research worth reading gets cited when it changes a decision.
Adjacent
Rarely just one domain.
Most engagements touch three or four. These are the ones that usually come with it.
- R&D and special projects Feasibility, prototypes, hard problems
- Semiconductor and programmable logic VLSI, ASIC, FPGA
- Embedded systems and device drivers Firmware, kernel, board bring-up
- Hardware manufacturing and supply ODM, DFM, certification
- Industrial automation and controls Robotics, SCADA, OT
- Software engineering Systems, automation, quality
- Cloud and infrastructure architecture Hybrid, containers, automation
- Security engineering Architecture, identity, testing
- Governance, risk and compliance Audit, frameworks, fractional CISO
- Water, power and energy systems Treatment, generation, infrastructure
- Technical leadership and advisory Robotics, capital projects, family offices