InTechOpen Chapter on SPADs for Optical Comms. Now Online
It was tough to write after a few years away from my Ph.D research, but finally my book chapter on "Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes in...
Software Sustainability for Hardware and Firmware Engineering
Introduction: At the software sustainability institute (www.software.ac.uk), we strive to promote best practices in software development...


Accepted for Fellow of The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI): 2017
I've been accepted for this small fellowship, so I now hope to increase the uptake of students that continue with software, and indeed...

Digital Timing Strategies: Analysis
At a recent job interview I was asked my preferred clocking approach for designing digital systems. It is the Xilinx best practice to...
InTech Open - Chapter
I've been invited to submit, hint hint, "Invite to Submit", a chapter for an InTech Open book on "Optical Communications". There are a...
Short Listed for the Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship Program...
So coding best practices and quality for maintainability have become strangely close to my heart in recent months after significant...

Over-Constrained FPGA Physical Constraints
Some time ago I wrote a small blog post on physical constraints for FPGAs (HERE). The idea here was to constrain a block to a finite area...
Burn out
Burn-Out... You read about it on LinkedIn and Forbes but those articles never prepare you for when it actually happens. To be totally...
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The Photoelectric Effect in Silicon Image Sensors: A Defense [Part: 5 Academic Imaging]
In this series of blog posts, I've systematically looked at the literature, physical mechanisms and the nomenclature used within Physics...
The Photoelectric Effect in Silicon Image Sensors: A Defense [Part: 4 Academic Imaging]
In my previous posts on this topic, [Part 1], [Part 2] and [Part 3] ,we have been discussing the nature of the internal photoelectric...