We have summarised our experience here, in terms of hardware, software languages, operating systems and test environments. For more details, please browse our Projects page.
We have amassed a great deal of experience in the scientific and technical aspects of systems design and development. Peter's training was in electronics and radar, and Christine's was in science and mathematics, eventually specialising in astrophysics. Our skill sets are complementary, and we have worked together successfully as a team for some years.
We have worked in the fields of Avionics, C & R Radar, Mobile Radar, Naval Radar,
Air Traffic Control, Command Control and Information Systems (CCIS), Aircraft Simulation (Tornado),
Process Control, Navigation, Communications (radio and physical), Golf Simulation, Navigation,
Infra-red Imaging, Guidance Systems, Stress Calculations, Computer Graphics and 3D Imagery.
Additionally, we have performed other services, including auditing, peer-review of
software products, carried out feasibility studies, legacy systems work, Open Source reviews
with advice on remedial action, and implemented automatic testing.
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Languages: Software languages used to develop systems
Objective-C C and C++, many iterations of Borland, Microsoft, Raisonance, BDS 2006 Pascal - Borland Object Oriented, Turbo 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, Microsoft Pascal, VAX Pascal Delphi - Borland 4 and 5, Borland Developer Studio 2006 Assemblers - Various including Intel 8086 and 80186 macro, 68000, Locus 16, ARM9, Perkin Elmer 8/32, PDP8 macro HTML 4, 5 ADA TAL - Similar to Pascal for Tandem non-stop Fortran - 5, 6, 7, 77, 90, Microsoft RTL/2 Algol 60 IMP (similar to Algol) Coral 66 Basic - various including Microsoft Visual Basic PFocal Machine Code - Plessey XL2 and XL4 |
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Test Environments: Special Environments and Equipment
Lauterbach Trace32 In Circuit Emulator (ICE) (Motorola 68030, 68032 based and Intel based Greenhills PowerPC Intel MDS & ICE Intel MDX & I2ICE TF2000 (Y2K Compliance) Newport 4 Axis Motion Controller Santa Barbara Infra-red Black Body Controller Wayne Kerr controllable Power Supply Thurlby Thandar controllable Power Supply Sci-Tech in-house CCIS and analysis software Ranorex Studio (Automatic Testing) |
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Hardware: Target Hardware for systems development
Apple Mac Apple iPad 1, and 3rd generation Sci-Tech POB Second Generation Prototype Board Sci-Tech POB embedded experimental Board ARM 9, ARM 3 Microprocessors Intel Processors 8086, 80286,80386,80486 80486 Portable PC VAL8RCT GPS Engine - MLR Device Blue Chip Intel Embedded Processor DEC Alpha Workstation SUN Workstation Embedded 68030 Lynwood Terminals (UKAIR Project) Aydin 8086 embedded processors Tandem non-stop IBM PC/AT PDP8 PDP11/34 Hewlett Packard Flatbed Plotter Locus 16 GEC Myriad Syntegra UNIX based DIME, GLC Hardware linked to V-Series (PTARMIGAN mobile) heads ICL DRS 20 models 10 and 50 Perkin Elmer 8/32 Pertec 2000 Texas Instruments 990 series IBM 370/145 (OS/VS1) Honeywell 6060 GEC 920b Plessey XL2 / XL4 |
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Operating Systems and Packages: Development and Target environments
Apple Mac OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion Apple iOS 5, 6 Windows XP Pro, 2000, NT, 98, 95, 3.11, 3.1, DOS 6.1, 6.0, 5.0, 3.0 UNIX CP/M Silicon Labs Simplicity Studio V4 and V5 Teamwork Cadre Apple xcode 4.3 Rowley Crossworks C Compilers various Borland Builder 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 Borland Delphi 3.0, 5.0 Borland Developer Studio C++ and Delphi Vision Click Greenhills Development Tools for PowerPC Tetradyne Software DriverX uCOS II Raisonance Integrated Development Environment Microsoft Visual Studios 6.0, 2005, 2008 and later versions OS/VS1 (IBM 370/145) MIL-STD-1553B Serial Data Communications X21 and X25 protocols, X25 Asynchronous Communications emulation NMEA 0183 RS 232 / RS 422 Serial Communications TCP-IP protocols Clansman UK/RT 353 Flexnet Code Insight |