David Darknell

David Darknell's Areas of Expertise: RF, EMi and EMC design and interference mitigation in Wired/Wireless mobile devices, Extensive ESD testing and product design experience, IoT devices both wired (ethernet, USB, serial) and wireless (802.11abgn + Zigbee 802.15 +), Mobile Battery Technology (cells, batteries, charging, power management), Analog and Mixed Signal Circuit Design (PCBA oriented, some monolithic designs as well), DAC & ADC interfacing, High speed, High precision. Capacitive Sensing & High Voltage Drive (MEMS device support). Sensor development (microscopic pressure/tension sense, tiny form factor sensors, high temp). Switching Power Supplies (High performance, high power density, low cost, exotic technologies). "Green" Power Systems (including high efficiency power conversion, solar interfaces).

Satellite and Space Power systems (including battery, hybrid voltaic interfaces, and fuel-cell ). Thermal design and management, including refrigeration, heat-pipe, evaporative, water cooling, Digital Design (PLD, FPGAs, ASICs with Schematic, CUPL, Verilog). Device and System Modelling (Spice, Matlab, MathCAD, Maple,) CAD/CAE tool experience (Altium, Autocad, Orcad, PADS, Viewlogic, Mentor Graphics, Allegro, Embedded Development and system design including Electrical, mechanical, fabrication and software. System Development and administration experience includes Linux, Windows, Android. Many programming languages, C, C++, VB, VBA, Python, etc. Instrumentation design. Experienced in product design, and industrial product development.