Mike
Rumsey
Blue Rum Consulting
Limited (2009 - present)
- Company Director. Development and support of LDPC encoder and decoder IP as described in products.
Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) Ltd, Cambridge (2005 - 2009)
- Roles included Consultant, Group Leader and Hardware Programme Manager.
- Project leader for the development of the modem within a cellular (GSM/3G/HSPA) chip
- responsible for the modem architecture, project management and team leadership.
- personal development of timing controller and HSUPA downlink receiver in VHDL.
- coordinated production test methodology and verification strategy.
- Programme manager for a GPS/Bluetooth/FM chip.
TTPCom Ltd, Royston (1996 - 2005)
- Roles included digital designer, Client Manager for a key customer and Group Leader.
- Joint design of a GSM chip with Analog Devices (AD20MS430)
- designed the timing and control unit and SIM Card interface.
- system design for the additional support of the ICO satellite standard, focussed on the radio interface.
- general contribution to the design flow, e.g. low power clocking methodology and Synopsys synthesis scripts.
- 3G modem development
- system design for the front-end from RF baseband through to Rake Receiver output.
- overall project manager for the digital hardware.
- personal implementation of much of the Rake Receiver block using VHDL.
- Digital Design Group Leader
- line manager to a team of 6 engineers, building on the previous 3G modem project team.
- responsible for the continued development of GSM and 3G digital design IP.
- training course development (on integration of the IP into a customer's design).
- sales support, training and post-sales
support for multiple clients
(semiconductor companies licensing the IP).
Texas Instruments, Freising, Germany (1994 - 1996)
- Completed the digital development for a first-generation (AMPS/TACS) mixed-signal cellular chip.
- Digital implementation of a baseband converter chip for a client based in Finland.
- Design flow development from design entry through to standard cell layout.
Texas Instruments, Bedford, UK (1984 - 1994)
- General ASIC CAD software development and support.
- Developed an "Analog Modelling Package", which added behavioural models to the in-house simulator as well as Mentor Quicksim. 1 patent and several papers.
- Led a project team supporting and developing CAD frameworks (design management environments).
Plessey Miliary Communications, Havant, UK (1983 - 1984)
- Gate-level design and implementation of two gate-arrays for frequency hopping radios.