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About Me

My name is Aftab Sarwar. I have been designing Embedded Systems for more than seven years… and still enjoying it. My main field of interest is embedded networking. I want to interconnect all tiny little smart “thingies” so that they can be monitored and controlled intelligently.

This website has been created to serve three purposes. First, is to put some very useful and free stuff to share with online community, especially the beginners. Second, is to keep a record of several ideas which hover over my head every now and then; I write them in the form of articles. And third, is to provide a platform to other people to do the same. The portfolio section of this website shows the sample work.

What do I do

There are three main things which I love to do. These are the skills in which I am most proficient:

• PCB Schematic and Layout Design
• Embedded Firmware Development
• Technical Writing

Skills

• Cores: MC8051, PIC16/18/32, MIPS-M4K (PIC32 from Microchip), ARM7/9/ (LPC from NXP), Cortex-M3 (Stellaris from TI), Devinci series, Cortex-A8/9 based OMAP series (TI), NiosII, picoBlaze, microBlaze
• Protocols: Embedded Ethernet and WiFi, RFID (ISO 14443A, 15693), USB, RS232, SPI, I2C, GSM
• Software Tools: Keil µVision, MPLAB, mikroC, CCS PICC, Xilinx SDK, EDK
• PCB Design Tools: OrCAD, Diptrace, Eagle
• Languages: Assembly, C, Basic, Verilog HDL, Ladder Logic, HTML
• Embedded linux: RidgeRun, Angstrom
• FPGA development: Xilinx, Altera
• Industrial Automation: Omron PLC, Delta PLC and HMI, TraceMode
• Software development: MSVC#, Java, C, AJAX, CGI, JavaScript
• OS: MS Windows, Ubuntu Linux

Interests

• PCB schematic and layout design, component and footprint libraries creation
• Embedded firmware development
• System design specification
• Components selection
• Technical documentation
• Market research and technology advice
• Design verification
• Academic and research writing
• Product evaluation and marketing

If you are interested to know more about me, just send me an email.