Re: Looking for Project Partner

suuidy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

As they say, all it takes is a great idea. Well, we all know it takes
more than that. It takes the know-how to turn that great idea into a
product. I want to partner with somebody to turn their great idea
into a great product. I have the skills, I just need the ideas.

Here's the rub of it. I'm an experience embedded designer. I have
experience in ASIC, FPGA, and embedded systems design. I also am
comfortable designing PCB's, as long as the things don't get too hairy
(i.e. no gigabit data rates). I've been working on ASIC, FPGA, and
embedded systems for nearly 15 years, and am comfortable with nearly
every aspect. I can do planning, design, and development.

I've developed FPGA based systems almost entirely with Xilinx using
VHDL. Using other vendors, i.e. Actel and Altera, isn't too far off
and I can easily pick that up. And with Verilog, I have some, but
limited, experience. And the transition from VHDL to Verilog isn't
too tough.

I've also been involved in embedded systems designs varying from CPU32
(68xxx), to Coldfire, to PowerPC, to Xilinx Microblaze, to ARM, to
AVR. I've developed fielded products for all. I'm comfortable with
Open Source tools for the development of all of these (except CPU32,
I've only used commercial products for this). And for all platforms
I've gone from raw hardware through to final product.

I've developed some PCB's of my own. These are all homebrew
projects. Granted they aren't nearly as complex as the ones I've
worked through to production, since I lack the soldering skills and
equipment to go really complex (i.e. using fine pitch parts and
BGA's). But I am very comfortable with the basics of low to mid-range
PCB design to understand the basics of most PCB designs. I don't know
high speed stuff, mostly because I lack the tools necessary to do
signal integrity type simulations and the experience in analyzing
designs for high speed issues. But for < about 50MHz, I think I'm just
fine.

Now, for the pitch.

I'm looking for a partner that has the creative spirit. I've thought
of several projects that I'd like to do, but everytime I bounce them
off of people they aren't interested. It seems I've the skills, and
enough creative spirit to design systems, but lack the market vision.
I'm looking for someone to partner with that has ideas, but lacks the
skills or knowledge to make them happen. I want to be that get-the-
nails dirty guy that figures out the technical issues for someone that
kind of creative vision.

What are your skills like on the software side?

.

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