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GILLES CHOUINARD

B.A.Eng., M.Sc.A., president

At a glance

  • Hardware and system design engineer, passionate and creative;

  • 20 years of hands-on experience in diversified companies and projects;

  • At ease with new technologies;

  • Successfully designed, managed and led from simple to complex embedded system projects;

  • Work from specification to production, including hardware, software and mechanical integration;

  • Meet marketing, commercial and production requirements.

A few innovative commercial products

 

  • Numerous broadcast-quality serial digital video (SD and HDTV) interface cards;

  • PC bus image acquisition and processing card;

  • DWDM laser temperature controller;

  • PC-base real-time broadcast quality multi-video windows system;

  • Digital AES audio embedder/de-embedder and monitoring;

  • Portable 32-channel ultrasonic inspection equipment;

  • PC card for graphics over video overlay;

  • SONET OC-48 (2.5Gb/s) and DS3 telecommunication interface card.

Professional Background

   Harfang Microtechniques      Director of Engineering               2001-2004

   Development of the first portable 32-channel ultrasonic inspection equipment. (harfangmicro.com)

  • Complete portable embedded system design;

  • 100MHz analog interface;

  • High density FPGA design;

  • Software, hardware and mechanical integration;

   Creativ Networks                     Engineering Group Leader          2000-2001

   Development of a telecommunication modular system with OC3/12/48 and DWDM interfaces.

  • 2.5Gb SONET telecommunication circuits;

  • Electro-optic circuit design;

  • Very high speed electronic design (2.5Gb/s);

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   Miranda Technologies Inc     Director of Engineering              1993-2000

   R&D and manufacturing of high end broadcast video and audio products. (www.miranda.com)

  • SD & HDTV Serial digital and analog video;

  • Extensive experience with the Gennum chips for SD/HD/Audio and the VXP processor;

  • Digital and analog audio;

  • FPGA design : ALTERA and XILINX;

  • Microprocessor, microcontroller, DSPs:  8/16/32 bits;

  • Memory architecture DDRAM/SDRAM/VRAM;

  • PC buses interface (PCI, ISA, EISA);

  • Programming: C and assembler.

   Matrox Electronic Systems   Hardware design engineer          1990-1993

   R&D and manufacturing of high end computer graphics cards and image processing systems.  (www.matrox.com)

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