Curriculum Vitae
Robert Carter PhD MSc BSc
Address ************* Tel 01565 ******
Knutsford email 
Cheshire www http://freespace.virgin.net/bob.carter
WA16
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Summary
As an engineer my primary motivation comes from making things work
and seeing my designs in volume production.
I relish the challenge and opportunity of starting a new product design
from a clean sheet of paper. I like to
stay with a project from liaison with marketing in initial specification
through systems engineering and value engineering of the design to test systems
design and product software. My broad
based engineering background is vital in crossing both the hardware/software
interface and electrical/mechanical boundaries and in creating useful
innovation. I have led small design
teams in IC design, software and speculative design research.
Employment history
Siemens plc. 1987
– Date
Executive Design Engineer
·
Recruited for ASIC
design.
·
Designed two gate arrays
for telecoms PDH test equipment, each 10kgates;
- 32 bit error counter counting 160Merrors/s using 2µm CMOS (not conventionally
possible)
·
Specified and helped
design a custom micro for AC drives control [Siemens ECO80C501].
·
Invented FCC induction
motor control strategy
·
Designed six other ASICs
for use in AC drives.
·
Invented drive test
system now used for all our production
·
Wrote motor control
software for the first MicroMaster product (‘C’ and assembler).
·
Designed the MicroMaster
Junior product hardware, including the IPM
Achieved 50% parts cost reduction compared to then current product.
Reduced failure rates – FPY & FFR.
Smallest commercial 1.5kW AC drive available worldwide.
·
Designed control system
for our first vector product using entirely new architecture
Invented novel hardware floating point maths system.
·
Invented low cost
current measurement system for open loop AC drives.
·
Current role "core
technology consultant".
Identify new technologies for our products and generate new ideas.
Systems engineering, liaison between HW and SW specialists
·
Now working on SOC
microprocessor + slave ASIC for next generation product.
University of Manchester, Electron beam Microlithography 1985
– 1987
Research Associate
·
Electron beam microlithography
for direct write on wafer
·
Pattern data processing
for multi project wafers
·
Test system design,
construction and software for multi project wafer test
·
Liaison with Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory
Ferranti Microelectronics Centre 1979
– 1981
VLSI Production Engineer
·
Assisted in
commissioning of new microelectronics centre
·
Responsible for
epitaxial layer CVD
Education
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PhD, AC drives, UMIST 1986
·
MSc, Microprocessor
Engineering and Digital Electronics, UMIST 1983
·
BSc, 1st class honours,
Physics with Electronics, University of Manchester 1979
·
Three GCE A levels, one
S level
·
Nine GCE O levels
·
GCSE german language
grade A
Training
·
A Sales Team Thinks
& Acts Economically, Siemens plc, 3 days 07/05/91
·
Electromagnetic Compatability
for Design Engineers, Frost & Sullivan, 3 days 07/04/92
·
Total Quality - Half Day
Workshop, Siemens plc, 0.5 days 07/12/92
·
Total Quality - Lunch
Workshop, Siemens plc, 0.5 days 24/06/93
·
Total Quality - Module
1, Siemens plc, 1 day 15/10/93
·
Total Quality - Module
3, Siemens plc, 1 day 09/11/93
·
Total Quality - Module
4, Siemens plc, 1 day 07/12/93
·
Total Quality - Module
2a, Siemens plc, 1 day 17/01/94
·
VHDL Seminar, Cypress
Ltd. 2 days 01/11/95
·
Five Dimensional
Management, The Salisbury Consulting Group, 2 days 06/03/97
·
Think Customer, Act
Customer, Siemens plc, 0.5 days 24/11/99
·
German language to GCSE 1994
·
Comprehensive VHDL,
Duolos, 5 days 12/01/2001
Publications
·
"The Influence of
PWM Waveform on Induction Motor Audio Noise in Fan Drives" IEE conf. 234 May 1984
·
"Torque Pulsations
in Inverter Induction Motor Drives" Drives/Motors/Controls
1984
·
Two papers on Fast
Prototyping of VLSI Logic 1987
·
"Binary Counter
uses LSB Feedforward" EDN
Europe "design ideas" Aug 1999
Patents
·
Compound braking for AC
drives
·
Synchronous/asynchronous
serial communications system
·
Floating point maths
unit based exclusively on combinatorial logic EP
97114905.9: 1997
·
New current sensing
system for low cost AC drives EP
9924299.2: 1999
Personal Details
Marital status: Separated Children: 1 Daughter Date
of Birth: Xx Xxxxx 1957
Electronics Projects
Completed at Home
·
Solar power station
maximum power point controller for BP
·
Flexible plant status
monitoring equipment (graphics LCD) for AEG
·
Single board computer
with graphics LCD display (used in automobile dashboard)
·
3 phase PWM ASIC with
CRC protected UART control interface for Siemens (7k gates)
·
PCB layout of battery
operated TENS machine for APM
Hobbies and Interests
I regularly play squash
and 5-a-side football. I go skiing
every year. I like mountaineering and
hill walking & occasionally do some rock climbing and windsurfing.
I have built a couple of
cars in my spare time: a Lotus Elan
from kit/spares, and my present car, a Mazda mx5 where I installed a 3.5litre
V8 engine and re- engineered the transmission & suspension.
I have started designing
a battery electric vehicle based on a reliant kitten shell. My design targets are light weight, low cost
and relatively low range, using an induction motor/inverter drive system.
References
Available on request.