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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
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Excellent written communication skills
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Proposals, functional specifications, man power and cost estimates
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High level product architectural design - software
and hardware -
Hardware/software tradeoffs, computer language selection
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Design of multi-processor hardware, software and firmware
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Design of real time, multi-tasking, interrupt and event driven operating systems
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Top down, modular, structured software design
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Well organized, maintainable, and documented software code
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Microprocessor and digital hardware design
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High level
languages: C++, C, Java, Basic
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Development Systems:
Visual Studio 2008, IAR MSP430, Keil ARM7, IntelliJ -
Assembly languages:
x86, 68HC11, 8051
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Microcontrollers: TI
MSP430, NXP
LPC2368, Freescale MCF5206EColdfire,
x86, 68HC11, 8051
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