Bin Zhao
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1.10 years work experiences in electronics design in analog and high speed
digital circuit design, firmware design and testing, embedded system
design experience from schematic entry & PCB layout, to fabricate
2. Bachelor in EE, Master in telecommunication, electronic designer,
project engineer.
3. 4 year embedded system design, electromechanical product design, CCTV
surveillance PTZ camera design
Objective
A position as Electronic engineer
Key Technical Skills
1. Years design experiences in electronics product design.
. Circuit design, including: embedded
hardware(ARM, MIPS, ASIC,uC), DVB & DAB STB
design, analog circuit design, RF circuit
design( silicon/RF tuner), DVR, OP-AMP, CCTV
camera surveillance system,, Audio and video
process circuit(codec, buffer, filter, video
overlay), motor control circuit, micro processor
control circuit(logic, motor, sensor), power
circuit design (SMPS, DC/DC), high speed digital
circuit(memory, flash, SDRAM, DDR, TS stream
bus, LCD bus, IDE, USB I2S, SPI, I2C), AV
interface(SCART, DVI..) Schematic capture, PCB
layout, prototype Troubleshooting, circuit
simulation(LTSpice & Proteus).
. Software design including bootloader(u-boot),
embedded Linux device driver design in Linux
driver, AVR/MSP430/arm9 microcontroller firmware
design in C, ASM, Visual basic and Verilog.
2. Experience of electronic product testing
. Establish test standard, create test procedure
for board level test, system level test for
manufacture process and engineering sample.
. Lab equipment experience in PSU, oscilloscope,
logic analyzer,
. Product test experience: regulation approval (CE
UL&FCC) and automatic Burn-In test for
reliability.
. setup test system for a new projector factory
including, dust-free plant, functional test
booth. test station in assembly line, life cycle
test rack/system.
3. Application software knowledge and other skills
. Experience of CAD tools: Altium, Orcad, Mentor,
Zuken CASTAR, LTSpice,Solidworks, Proteus,
. MSP430,AVR and arm programming experience Linux
development .
. Customer support, project and R&D department
management skills.
Career Summary
2010 Mar - 2012 Dec GosRobot Inc(Shenzhen, PR.China) Design
engineer
Attended Project
1. waterproof surveillance PTZ camera system
2. IP68 waterproof portable CCTV drain pipe inspection camera system and
controller box.
3. portable manhole inspection camera system
Duties:
system level design, circuit simulation, schematics design and PCB
layout, prototype trouble shooting, software programming, design
functional test jig.
. 2x150watt DC motor control circuit for MAXON motor and filter for
robot crawler, OVP, current, voltage sensor, 2x8 watt PZT camera
control system with embedded system(AVR16/644/ARM)
. verify the new circuit design and PCB layout, to trouble-shooting
engineering prototype.
. I involved to following in circuit design like Magnetic encoder for
camera position, accelerometer,pressometer, video text overlay OSD
menu, 2x10 watt Pan/tile DC motor control(LM5104M), Sony protocol for
zoom control(FCB-IX11A CCD camera), thermometer, Lamp light brightness
control(LM5104M), dimmable LED light LM3402
. board bring-up and prototype trouble-shooting/ firmware design for PTZ
camera system, wireless, RS485/232, USB(FT232),
. ARM/AVR ATMega/644 hardware and firmware experience for RTC, OSD menu,
sensor circuit(thermo, current voltage. pressure), LCD
display(toppoly), resistive touch screen. boot loader design for
prototype development purpose.
. experience of analog hardware simulation in LTSpice, software
(AVR&circuit) simulation in Proteus.
. Solidworks knowledge during IP68 waterproof camera design.
2008 Jan-2010 Mar Christie Digital System(Kitchener, Canada) test
engineer
Attended Project
1. ATE design, burn-in station build. PCB functional test.
2. WILD projector project(3D LED/ir business projector project )
3. setup a new 3D projector plant in China
Duties:
. Design test hardware system and test GUI(in Visual Basic/FPGA) to
verify the functionality of hardware module, for example: make a
motorized DMD check fixture with system boards for DMD dirt, taint,
pollution issue before installation by workers.
. training course for 3D projector. add new test function to test
station at assembly line to make sure every installation process is
complete before next assembly station.
. Build up a life cycle test hardware e.g. test rack, make a schematics
and wiring draw for test rack, build, routing, verification of new
test rack. set up test environment, e.g. AC power distribution(NEMA
connector), setup ventilation system(ionizer, particle counter, hose),
control cable routing like RS422, Ethernet and I/O. maintain left
cycle test code(Lab windows).
. board/ hardware sub-module system test. circuit including FPGA, DSP,
ARM, some hi-speed digital interface of digital image in a DLP system,
motor driver board and DMD module. To test those board, I used VB to
design a test GUI to control FPGA/micro controller board to create
SPI, I2C and IO signal. for example in WILD project(3D LED business
projector project).
. collaborate with PCB manufacturer to review their test procedure and
improve test coverage. Check PCB board layout during PCB design phase
and verified Gerber file for test and manufacturer purpose. e.g test
point, component placement confliction during assembly
. collaborate with hardware design engineer to pass the approval
certificate test(EMI/safety).
. study new test methodology to reduce functional test time in
functional test booth.
2007 Feb-2008 Jan Sonavox Canada Inc( previous Indigo Manufacture
Inc)(Toronto, Canada) Senior design Engineer
and project engineer
Attended Project
1. Logitech 2.1 Channel300Watt class AB Amplifier design with STA5150 and
STA575
2. USA Boston Acoustic Inc. 40 Watt Class D 2Channel iPOD docking system
with STA333BW
3. UK Tannoy i30 and i50 loud speaker projects.
Duties
. Project leader role for i30 and i50 projects, co-ordinate between R&D
and the manufacture test team,
. Design schematics and PCB Layout. Design 40watt PSU and audio
amplifier with op-amp for ipod docking system.
. embedded system firmware programming in C language for MSP430 MCU. For
example: driver firmware of class D audio, audio codec and sensors
like current, voltage, temperature ...
. Prototype build and troubleshooting, lab test for system level
performance, Create functional test standard and procedure, trouble-
shooting to pass a compulsory approval test(UL/FCC)
. support manufacture by providing test standard and procedure for PPR
and MPR, and functional test of first batch of MPR product(Audio
precision).
2004 Jan-2007 Jan Frontier Silicon Ltd(UK and China) DVB-T
Project engineer and hardware team leader
Attended Project
1. DVB-T project and DAB + DVB project
2. customer support for design and manufacture issue.
3. build DVB/DAB module and process a ATE test in third party
factory.
Duties
. Accept 3 month training for terrestrial DVB/DAB set top box.
. Support local third party factory to manufacture DVB/DAB modules and
collaborate to setup automatic test platform in their factory for
modules validation purpose.
. Support customer for circuit design with FS DTV/DAB module. e.g. Check
their peripheral circuit, check the SMPS power output, I/O, output
interface, PCB layout, provide on-site trouble-shooting for key
customer. prototype and first batch sample check for performance like
sensitivity, BER in R&S SFQ,/SFU, DTV signal meter, network analyzer.
furthermore, for the first prototype, I need to use video measurement
set(VM700T) to measure analogy video output(CVBS) and audio, use
oscilloscope, multi-meter and debug tools to do trouble-shooting board
level issue.
. Assist key custom to pass approval certificate test(EMI and safety).
Lab test for customer prototype, review customer production test
procedure, functional test before software release to customer.
. verify customer issue report on FS platform and find out root cause,
collaborate with UK senior engineer for a better solution.
2003 Jan-2004 Dec Mico electronic Ltd (Shenzhen, PR.China)
Project engineer and hardware engineer
Attended Project
1. DVB-T/DVB-C project (zoran 39140/39150, Philips,)
2. portable handheld DTV,
3. DTV USB dongle(DiBCom)
4. DVR in Zoran 39140 solution
Duties
. DVB-T/C set top box hardware design including PCB layout peripheral
circuit design like demodulator, NIM tune/Silicon tuner circuit, SMPS
PSU, interface DVI, SCART, S-video.
. Embedded system for 7 inch portable handheld TV in Sunplus DVB ASIC,
USB DTV dongle with RF silicon TV tuner, 10-20w SMPS, DC/DC, design
DVBT STB & DVR with IDE hard disk. Design included following circuit:
video decode(DSP inside), memory bus(Flash, DDR, SDRAM), Video process
circuit(buffer audio codec circuit and also USB, 1394 firewire.
. USB dongle as DTV receiver in DiBCom solution/ Car DVB-T receiver. I
did field test and lab test for mobility during receiving & antenna
index(voltage standing wave ration, orientation thermo issue
. prototype board bring-up and trouble-shooting with debugger tools and
RS232 port, engineering sample test with equipment like R&S DTV signal
generator for sensitivity, BER, Tektronix VM700T(Video measurement
set) for analogy TV signal test. Approval certificate test for EMI and
safety.
Educational background
Master of Science in Data Communication and Networks Security
University of Hertfordshire, Unite kingdom
Bachelor degree in electronic and electrical
Guilin University of electronic technology
Languages: fluent in spoken and written in English and Mandarin
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