The Panasonic System LSI Design Europe (PSDE) Years May 2001 to August 2005 : Panasonic System LSI Design Europe (PSDE) Joined PSDE with a mandate to build up a complete system level engineering team from scratch. The objective was to deliver production ready turnkey DAB Radio solutions and develop innovative concept proving platforms.  This task involved the majority of the recruitment as well as development tool selection and equipping a laboratory.  The final team consisted of Hardware, Software, RF, and Production engineers as well as laboratory technicians and peaked at 18 staff.  Over the next two and half years I managed all the projects undertaken by this team as well as being their line manager responsible for pay, appraisals, training etc.  As a unit we delivered four complete DAB radio solutions through from initial concept to supporting mass production in China.  The project management and the technical liaison with the customer was my responsibility.  I made frequent trips to factories in southern China and worked very closely with the sales team in Hong Kong.  I built up strong relationships with both the Asian and European sections of Panasonic and the customers we were dealing with.  In addition it became necessary for my team to undertake the complete system verification of a new LSI developed by a different group within the office.  The system consisted of the LSI, which has an embedded RISC processor, and more than a hundred thousand lines of C Code.  I developed a complete, layered verification plan based on the System Requirement Specification and then my team created the special test environments and tests (in PERL) to implement the verification process.  The final test sequences consisted of several hundred discrete tests capable of being run overnight as regression checks.  A different part of these tests also included being responsible for field trials in the UK and Europe.  All of these tests had to be signed off by the end customer. Footer Text: Lorem ipsum dolor Panasonic PSDE .. part of the enormous Matsushita group where we were, in turn, part of Panasonic Semiconductors. An amazing place to work with an incredible breadth of opportunities. I travelled more in this role than any other  - Hong Kong seven times in six months at one point and also Japan on a couple of occasions which was extremely interesting. The cross cultural side of things was both stimulating and challenging Copyright Steelbadger Consulting Limited 2005 - 2010 Last update : 13th November 2010 Roberts Radio RD-1 [Image used with permission of Roberts Radio] Website designed and implemented by Steelbadger Consulting Ltd Made with Xara Web Designer