Who am I?

Let me introduce myself, Luc PRADEAU, passionate about electronics since I was young, my 30 years of experience in developing embedded electronic systems have given me an expertise that I wish to share with you.

My experiences

Hardware System Project Manager

CSGROUP (06/2020 - Today)

Study and development of embedded hardware systems. Navigation calculator, gun computer, military GPS.

Oil & Gas Hardware Project Manager

Watt&Well (2019-2020)

Monitoring of subcontractor from the definition to the validation of a security calculator for automatic metro.

My skills

Electronic
FPGA
  • CAO Électronique : Cadstar, Orcad Capture, Altium

  • CAO 3D : SketchUp, SolidWorks

  • Formats Standard : VME, PCI, cPCI, PCIe

  • PCB : FR4, ROGER, Polyimide

  • PCB Technology : µvia, Via in Pad, HDI, Impedance control, Multilayers (1 to 16)

  • Components : µC, µP, DSP, FPGA, EPLD, DDR, FLASH

  • Power Supply : AC/DC, DC/DC, isolated or not, Linear

  • Topology: Buck, Boost, FlyBack, SEPIC

  • Xilinx/Altera Family

  • Software: Vivado, Quartus, Synplify

  • Simulation Software: Modelsim

  • Fast Links (GTX, Serial Lite)

  • DDR3/DDR4 Memory Interfaces

  • Low-Speed ​​Interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART)

Software
  • OS : Windows, Linux

  • Programming Language: C, C++

  • Scripting : Ruby, Python

Project Management
  • Needs Analysis

  • Requirements Definition

  • Quoting & Invoicing

  • Planning & Monitoring

  • Technical Document Preparation

  • Customer Relations (Technical/Planning)

  • Subcontracting Management

  • Team Management

  • Cross-functional Communication

  • Meeting and Reporting

  • Testing, Acceptance Testing & Deployment

Study and development of HV motor power supply and control.

Project technical support consultant

EXTIA (2016 - 2019)

Electronic Project Manager

ATOS (2002-2015)

Study and development of embedded hardware systems. Telecom, Military (Air and Land), and Civil applications.

Electronic Engineer

ATEME (1998 - 2002)

Development of μC, FPGA and DSP Ti based cards. Railway, Military (Air and Land), and Industrial applications.

Signal Processing
  • Simulation on MatLab

  • FPGA implementation: FIR, IIR, FEC, Reed-Salomon

The team

Luc Pradeau

Manager / Electronics Expert