Qualifications

Steve Haynal, Ph.D., is the principal design engineer and programmer at Softer Hardware. Steve also works at Intel's Strategic CAD Labs. Besides Softer Hardware's generic reconfigurable PCI platform and the SEC-PCI, Steve's design experience includes:

• A Multimode Reader that deciphers Morse code, RTTY, ASCII, ARQ and FEC TOR communication protocols used by amateur radio operators. It was published as a project in ARRL's QEX magazine in June, 1991.
• A fourth axis daughter board that adds an additional counting channel to the SEC-PC.
• A compact shaft encoder counter, the SEC-232m, that allows you to interface two high speed quadrature encoders and eight parallel I/O bits to a standard RS-232 port. The microcontroller-based SEC-232m is contained in a very small enclosure and is designed to connect directly to a PC standard DB-25 serial connector.
• A paint ball gun calibration device, the Ball-Cron, that measures the velocity of paint balls fired from a paint ball gun.
• An ASIC design, the PVA chip, that computes position velocity and acceleration for a shaft encoder.
• An ASIC design, the Rogue Chip, that performs data compression/decompression and DES encryption/decryption. This design received a second place experienced category award in a nationwide VLSI design contest.