About Bloomfield Design Labs

Bloomfield Design Labs provides Electrical Engineering services for clients in the Broadcast/Presentation Audio/Video, consumer ASIC, and Bio-Medical industries. The firm is located just outside of Sacramento. I specialize in FPGA and embedded systems development. Development work can be performed at the client’s location or at the home office of Bloomfield Labs.

H/W Design

I have over 30 years of experience in the development of circuit cards and modules. Some of the key features of the designs involved FPGA’s, embedded CPU’s, DDR, USB, Ethernet, and high speed digital logic.

FPGA Design

The biggest FPGA that I have worked with is a Xilinx Virtex 7 and the fastest design I worked on had a 120 MHz system clock. An excellent resource on the topic of FPGA design is a book called “Advanced FPGA Design” by Steve Kilts.

Embedded S/W Development

I’ve developed embedded C software for the Espresssif ESP8266 WIFI module to measure voltage, current and temperature and pass that info over a WIFI mesh network. I’ve recently taken classes in Assembly, C++, RTOS and Java.

Visual Software Design

At Adesto Technologies I worked on a Visual Basic GUI for testing NVRAM chips. I’ve recently taken two classes on Visual Basic and one on C#. The image above is from a final project for a Java class that used JavaFX for creating GUI’s.

Continuing Engineering

I have substantial experience with solving difficult engineering problems with product designs in production and/or nearing the end of their active life. Typically the components become more difficult to procure and/or there are design performance issues that need to be resolved in a timely manner.