About me

I define myself as an embedded electronics systems designer.
By this I mean that I design the electronics boards and write the associated software.
Working with the mechanical engineer, I can produce boards that fit perfectly into the mechanical housing.
I also design the test tools that enable the manufacturing process to be fine-tuned and facilitate troubleshooting.
Finally, I create development support tools. These tools are hardware and/or software.

I keep an eye on technological developments. It's essential to keep my knowledge up to date.

I fell into it when I was little.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a train mechanic... until I came across an electronics magazine in my school's library. From then on, there was no question of mechanics or trains. I had just one goal : to learn as much as I could about this discipline I had just discovered. And that's exactly what I did. Between experimenting at home and studying, everything was about electronics. Except that software also entered my world.

software + hardware = a perfect mix.

My skills:

Mastered technologies:

MCU/MPU: 68HC11, 68HC12, Coldfire, Kinetis K22, STM32L0, i.MX6 Quad...

FPGA: FPGA development for over 20 years. Mainly AMD (Xilinx) FPGAs. More recently, Lattice FPGAs (MACHXO2) more adapted to certain needs. I currently use the VHDL language to program FPGAs.

UART: Essential. If only for debugging.

I2C: Essential. Not always as easy to master as one might think.

SPI: Essential bis.

PCIexpress: Link between a processor and a AMD (Xilinx) FPGA. Use of Legacy and MSI memory accesses, DMA transfers and interrupts.

Ethernet: Use of various types of Ethernet phy.

TCP/IP: IPV4 et IPV6. Client, server.

USB: Mainly use of HID protocol. On microcontroller and Windows PC.

IEEE1394 (Firewire):

Development of a complete stack in C : IEEE1394/SBP-2/SCSI/FAT32(and UDF for DVD-RAM).

Audio: Analog and digital (I2C, TDM, AES-3, AES-42, DANTE...)

Video: Analog (PAL, NTSC, Y/C...) and digital (SDI SD and HD, Tx/Rx/processing).

CCD: CCD sensors are complex to use. Double sampling is mandatory. The SHP and SHD settings are critical. We still have to remove the FPN, linearise, de-bayer, filter...

Sensors: Management of various sensors (temperature, light, etc.).

EMC: Taking EMC into account when designing electronic boards.

RTOS: FreeRTOS and µC/OS-II real-time kernels (my name is in the book!).

QNX: Real-time OS. Implemented on NXP P4080 and NXP i.MX6 processors.

RTX: Real-time system for Windows.

PCB: Schematic and layout using Altium at work and Kicad at home.

MCU/MPU:	68HC11, 68HC12, Coldfire, Kinetis K22, STM32L0, i.MX6 Quad...
FPGA:	FPGA development for over 20 years. Mainly AMD (Xilinx) FPGAs. More recently, Lattice FPGAs (MACHXO2) more adapted to certain needs. I currently use the VHDL language to program FPGAs.
UART:	Essential. If only for debugging.
I2C:	Essential. Not always as easy to master as one might think.
SPI:	Essential bis.
PCIexpress:	Link between a processor and a AMD (Xilinx) FPGA. Use of Legacy and MSI memory accesses, DMA transfers and interrupts.
Ethernet:	Use of various types of Ethernet phy.
TCP/IP:	IPV4 et IPV6. Client, server.
USB:	Mainly use of HID protocol. On microcontroller and Windows PC.
IEEE1394 (Firewire):
	Development of a complete stack in C : IEEE1394/SBP-2/SCSI/FAT32(and UDF for DVD-RAM).
Audio:	Analog and digital (I2C, TDM, AES-3, AES-42, DANTE...)
Video:	Analog (PAL, NTSC, Y/C...) and digital (SDI SD and HD, Tx/Rx/processing).
CCD:	CCD sensors are complex to use. Double sampling is mandatory. The SHP and SHD settings are critical. We still have to remove the FPN, linearise, de-bayer, filter...
Sensors:	Management of various sensors (temperature, light, etc.).
EMC:	Taking EMC into account when designing electronic boards.
RTOS:	FreeRTOS and µC/OS-II real-time kernels (my name is in the book!).
QNX:	Real-time OS. Implemented on NXP P4080 and NXP i.MX6 processors.
RTX:	Real-time system for Windows.
PCB:	Schematic and layout using Altium at work and Kicad at home.

Mastered programming langages:

Assembly: Good knowledge. I've rarely coded in assembly for several years..

C: Very good knowledge. 30 years of use on various platforms. Mainly for low-level software.

C++: I haven't used it for a long time. I've mastered the basics but my knowledge isn't up to date.

Python: Good knowledge. My use of Python ranges from writing small data format conversion scripts (FPGA bitstream to C source, for example) to writing complete PC applications for testing, debugging, etc.

VHDL: Very good knowledge of the synthesizable part of the langage.

MyHDL: Good knowledge. [1]

Ada: Good knowledge (still learning it). Ada is a very good language, not enough used since it is not well known.

Assembly:	Good knowledge. I've rarely coded in assembly for several years..
C:	Very good knowledge. 30 years of use on various platforms. Mainly for low-level software.
C++:	I haven't used it for a long time. I've mastered the basics but my knowledge isn't up to date.
Python:	Good knowledge. My use of Python ranges from writing small data format conversion scripts (FPGA bitstream to C source, for example) to writing complete PC applications for testing, debugging, etc.
VHDL:	Very good knowledge of the synthesizable part of the langage.
MyHDL:	Good knowledge. [1]
Ada:	Good knowledge (still learning it). Ada is a very good language, not enough used since it is not well known.

Professional experience:

Aaton Digital (2013-2024) :

Electronics boards engineering for:

Audio recorders Cantar-X3 and Cantar-Mini.

Recorders accessories:

A-Box8

A-Box6

Melody-2

Cantarem 2

Cantaress

Souriquette

Hydra system

Intelligent LiIon battery charger (2 batteries)

Development of embedded software for audio recorders and accessories..

Development of PC software for:

Debugging support.

Setting up of boards and complete systems in production.

Troubleshooting assistance.

Aaton (1994-2013) :

Electronics boards engineering for:

Cine cameras XtrProd (16mm), A-Minima (16mm), XTera (16mm), 35-III (35mm), Pénélope (35mm) and Pénélope Delta (digital).

Audio recorders Cantar-X1 and Cantar-X2.

Cameras and recorders accessories.

Post production systems based on an industrial PC (ISA et PCI boards).

Cameras, recorders and accessories embedded software development.

Various PC software development.

6 month internship at Aaton (1993) :

Development of a test bench for motorisation cards of 35-III cinema cameras.

Evaluation of the Motorola 68332 microprocessor to replace the Motorola 68HC11 used in some of the company's products.

4 month internship at Merlin-Gerin Electrique (1992) :

Search for alternative solutions to using a code wheel to set a Batibus module's address.

1 month internship at CIME (1990) :

Designing the masks of an electronic chip in CMOS technology.

Professional courses:

VHDL

RTX

QNX

Altium

Various technical seminars organised by component manufacturers and distributors.

Various webinars for technology watch.

Degrees:

Graduate engineer in electronics and industrial computing. ISTG-3I electronics section (Grenoble) - 1993

Technical University Diploma in Electrical Engineering and Industrial Computing micro-electronics option (Grenoble) - 1990

High school baccalaureate : F2 (electronics) with first class honours (Lycée Pierre Gilles De Gennes, Digne Les Bains) - 1988

Professional projects:

The professional projects I've worked on are presented on this page .

[1]	MyHDL is not a langage but a Python library.