Bob Paddock

Background

About Bob Paddock

I was born with "The Knack", per Dilbert, and have been programming and designing Embedded Systems ever since. I am a American Society for Quality - Certified Quality Software Engineer, with background in Analog/Digital hardware system design and layout. Designing low power 'Green' systems are now all the rage. I have designed Embedded Systems like these, that ran on batteries or other low power energy sources, such as Intrinsically Safe systems, for years. I worked for many years in a electronic Contract Manufacturing (CM) environment. I know what it takes to have a idea come in on the back of a napkin, and get a finished product out the door, from BOM to PCB. See my blog on the subject: My work for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/National Institute for Occupation Safety and Health (NIOSH) Mining Division may be found in the these links: and You can find my name in the First Edition of the uCOS-II Real Time Operating System (RTOS) book:"MicroC/OS-II The Real-Time Kernel; A complete portable, ROMable scalable preemptive RTOS", and the wxWidget book:"Cross-Platform GUI Programming with wxWidgets (Bruce Perens Open Source)". My particular interests are in the area of requirements management and Software Safety. See my award winning web site on the subject at and my blog http://blog.softwaresafety.net. Specialties: The prevailing attitude that "Memory is Cheap" doesn't cut it in the world of Embedded Systems. I get code to fit into parts (others have picked), that are too small. I translate code between different micros and compilers. Besides the software aspects of things I also do micro design, analog design, power supply design, and board layout.