James McLamara

Background

About James McLamara

Areas of Expertise Analog and Digital Electronics • Analog Design (OpAmps, Discrete Amplifiers, Oscillators, Signal generators, Filters) • Digital Design (Direct digital synthesis, High speed timing, TTL, LVDS, ECL) • Sensor Signal Conditioning (Thermal, Pressure, Optical) • Analyses (Worse case, Failure mode effect, Stress, Time Domain, and Frequency Domain analysis) Printed Circuit Design • EMI and Parasitic Mitigation • Digital and Analog Power • Low Noise Analog • High Speed Digital Logic Semiconductors • Integrated CMOS Circuit Design Band-Gap Reference, Bias Design, OpAmp Design, Oscillator, Comparator, Digital Logic Modulators, Drivers, Power FET Design • Power Semiconductor Devices (MOSFET, IGBT, SCR, BJT, PIN Diode, Schottky Diodes) • Wide Band-Gap Semiconductors (SiC, GaN) Controls • Classical Control (Feedback, Feed-Forward) • Analog (Lead-Lag, P, PI, PID control) • Digital (Bang-Bang, Lead-Lag, P, PI, PID control, adaptive) • Analyses (Stability analysis, Regulation, Disturbance Rejection) • Systems:(Optical, Power, Thermal, Electro-mechanical) • Modern Control (State Space Modeling, State Feedback, Observer Based Estimation, Optimal Control) Electronic Power Systems • Converter Design (Buck, Boost, Buck-Boost, SEPIC, Flyback, Forward, Push-Pull, DAB) • Inverters, Rectifiers, Class D Amplifiers • Linear Amplifiers & Linear Regulators [mW, 300W] • Voltage and Current Mode Control, Multiphase Converters, Power Factor Correction • Magnetic and Transformer Design • EMI Filter Design Power Systems (Infrastructural) • Residential, Commercial, Industrial (NFPA 70, NFPA 70E, NFPA 72, NFPA 101) • Renewable Energy Systems (Solar, Energy Storage) • Emergency Backup Power Systems Embedded Systems • Microcontroller and Microprocessors (PIC, Motorola, Intel) • Digital Signal Processors (PIC, Texas Instruments) • Programmable Logic Devices and Gate arrays (Altera, Xilinx) • Languages: C, C++, VHDL, Assembly • Communication Standards & Protocols: 1553, RS232, RS485, RS422, SPI, I2C • Peripheral Interface (Displays, Keypad, Encoder, ADC, DAC, EEPROM, Digipot)