Day job

[Neil Johnson]

(not wanting to be left out ...)

I am a Chartered Electronics Engineer for a large engineering consultancy
firm here in Cambridge, UK.  I design everything from hardware (analogue,
digital, FPGA, ASIC) to software (various assembler, C, little bit of
Tcl/Tk and LabView), usually sitting on the fence between these two
disparate regimes.  I've been doing this stuff professionally (that is, for
money) for about 10 years, and I've also picked up a couple of degrees
along the way.  Privately, I've been soldering things together for _much_
longer (almost 20 years I reckon) and had an active interest in electronic
music synthesis for the best part of 15 years, building various synthesizer
gadgets and experiments along the way.  Check out my web page for some
musings on Walsh function synthesis.

My current home set up mostly consists of ready-made stuff (Emu, Roland,
Yamaha, etc) which, blush, shame, I am slowly enhancing with home-brew
things.  My current project is a MIDI routing unit so I can at last get a
grip on patching my MIDI gadgets.  I built one a few years back, and it was
published in the UK magazine Practical Everyday Electronics, but it only
has 6 channels and is manually switched.  This new design will have 8
channels and will be digitally controlled, and will respond to MIDI
messages as well as front-panel controls, 64 patch memories, direct SysEx
control, etc.  After this one, well, I've got plenty of other ideas waiting
to be realised (MIDI message processor, polyphonic digital-analogue-hybrid
synth, Walsh function synth, etc)

If you read the magazine produced by Maplin Electronics ("Electronics &
Beyond - The Maplin Magazine") you've probably come across my IBUS system
in the last year or so.

So, tuppence spent (or 2 cents for our American cousins)

Neil
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|     Neil Johnson  BEng(Hons) MSc CEng MIEE MIEEE     |
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|"I can hardly speak for myself, let alone my employer"|
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