Apple Enterprises specializes in embedded firmware and custom software for Windows.

Apple Enterprises was formed as a sole proprietorship by Chris Apple in 1981 to provide engineering consulting services. That is 27 years of experience as a consultant and 33 years of experience developing software and firmware for microcontrollers, microprocessors and embedded computers and on occasion designing the hardware.

Product Development Overview

Developed BioTech products: Mass spectrometer for Ciphergen and GeneTrace; calibration tools for the Arcturus Laser Microdissection and Laser Capture Instrument;  electronic pipettes for Rainin Instrument (patent).

Developed software tools: MPEG2 tools for Hyundai; VxGdb interface-Sun to PC for Hyundai; 386 operating system and debugger for Digital F/X; Emulator interfaces for Microtec Research's XRAY debugger.

Designed embedded microprocessor products for: General Electric in nuclear power safety equipment (patent); Pinnacle Systems, Digital F/X and CMX in commercial broadcast equipment; Compumetric and GCA in semiconductor capital equipment; Rainin, Eldex and Critikon (Johnson and Johnson) in pumps.

Success indicator - several products for same company: 4 products for New Focus, 4 products for Rainin, 4 products for Light Source, 3 products for GE, 3 products for Digital F/X, 2 products for CMX, 3 products for Compumetric and many products for Microtec Research.

Technical Strengths

• Excellent written communication skills

• Proposals, functional specifications, man power and cost estimates

• High level product architectural design - software and hardware

• Hardware/software tradeoffs, computer language selection

• Design of multi-processor hardware, software and firmware

• Design of real time, multi-tasking, interrupt and event driven operating systems

• Top down, modular, structured software design

• Well organized, maintainable, and documented software code

• Microprocessor and digital hardware design

• High level languages: C++, C, Java, Basic

• Development Systems: Visual Studio 2008, IAR MSP430, Keil ARM7, IntelliJ

• Assembly languages: x86, 68HC11, 8051

• Microcontrollers: TI MSP430, NXP LPC2368, Freescale MCF5206EColdfire, x86, 68HC11, 8051