Max Blücher

Software architect and team lead of the outdoor lighting control team for CityTouch. Design, implementation, and maintenance of the firmware for an outdoor lighting controller communicating with a back end system using cellular modems. Design of hard- and software-in-the-loop test systems for these controllers.

Design and implementation of hard- and software for a multitude of video network adapters. System design of a highly reliable multi protocol network adapter with redundant control and data planes. Porting Linux to Hitachi SH3 and PowerPC processors. Specifying designing, and debugging of custom I/O hardware to be implemented in VHDL. Writing linux device driver for these peripherals. Debugging complex hardware systems with logic analyzer and oscilloscope

Design of both hard- and software for a data acquisition unit gathering meteorological data, including the design of analogue part of the data converter. Porting Linux to an embedded i486 system, writing device drivers for the custom I/O hardware driving the data acquisition unit and ISDN & Ethernet network interfaces.

Design and implementation of a communication stack for a masspar supercomputer (GC PowerPlus). Design of a wormhole router for high-speed communication links .