CV for Höskuldur Thorhallsson

 

Design assignments accepted covering both HW and SW. Höskuldur has a long experience in electronic design and HW-near programming. He has been active in the radio and mobile radio sphere for many years, and is a specialist for instance in the algorithms and DSP programming needed for radio applications.

 

 

Assignments

 

1999 - 2001

Ericsson Radio Systems AB: Design verification and testing of GSM PCMCIA telephone, based on a homodyne receiver principle. Integration of mechanical solutions for optimal shielding. (Ref: Sören Karlsson, mobile +46 (0)705 100 277)

1997 - 1999

Celsius Tech AB: Implementing a radio modem on a signal processor,  Motorola 56300. Digital filters, correlator, Viterbi detector, Hamming coding and CRC. Programming  language:  Motorola DSP-assembler. Integration of radio module and verification of radio performance.

1990 -1997

Ericsson Mobile Communications AB: Porting assembler RCA1802 code to C for P400 radio system RPS80. Debugging and type approval of Mobitex radio C702. Work with device drivers and real time OS. MTOS. Design of equipment for bit error rate measurement for digital radio units. Sensitivity measurements concerning bit error rate on Mobitex 8k radio modem. Evaluation and testing  of Viterbi detector and sync correlator.

1989

Pharmacia AB: Device driver for OS2 for an OSI based local area netrwork. Porting of network program code from Pascal to C.

1987-1988

Ericsson Mobile Communications AB: Programming of C700 mobile radio.

1984-1986

Hugin Sweda Cash Register AB: Unix for PC. Real time adaptation of kernel and implementation of device drivers for inter process communication. Subroutine library for arithmetic with 64 bit numbers. Device drivers for Ram/Prom Disks. Programming 8088 assembler and C.

1981-1984

SRA/L M Ericsson AB: Programming of mobile radio units C600 and P30. Design of real time monitor and algorithms for anti-fading purpose. Programming language: Assembler for CPU Rca 1802.

 

 

Training

 

- 2001

A number of short proffesional courses: Pascal, Ada, Operating Systems, Data base  technique, C-programming, Computer communication.

1979

University of Uppsala: Computer programming 3 academical points

1979

University of Uppsala: Computer programming 3 academical points

1972 - 1974

Technical School, Reykavik: Radio and low current technology.

 

 

Languages

Swedish, English