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Embedded Systems Design

Biography

Allen Moore

Interests

I'm particularly interested in "small systems", those using 8 and 16-bit microcontrollers to solve a variety of problems in the areas of control, interface, and data acquisition.

Projects

I've been developing embedded software professionally since the early 1980's. In that time I've used a variety of languages, tools, and microcontrollers. Here are some of the more interesting projects I've worked on over the years:

• Espresso machines. I developed and maintained the control software for a line of fully-automatic commercial espresso machines. The machines pour a variety of coffee and milk drinks at the touch of a button.
• Military avionics. I developed the software for an airspeed and attitude warning system for the F-117 Stealth Fighter. This system provided a voice warning to the pilot when he was "pushing the envelope".
• Subterranean geological imaging system. This system was sent down an oil well shaft and used ultrasound to image subterranean cavities that were being considered for underground storage of oil.
• Commercial avionics. I worked on a series of designs for flight data acquisition systems, which provided the primary data stream to the flight recorders on commercial passenger jets.

Professional

Member IEEE and IEEE Computer Society

Member ACM (Association of Computing Machinery)

Education

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University

Recent Training

Better Firmware Faster (2007), Jack Ganssle's seminar

Developer Testing Bootcamp (2006), Construx Software

MASTERs Conference (2005), Microchip

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