About The Company

Gordon Minns & Associates, Inc. (GMA) designs products containing embedded 8, 16, and 32-bit microcontrollers, providing turn-key new-product solutions for companies that market Consumer, Digital Audio/Video, Medical/ Dental and Industrial control products.

The company has been in business since 1984, and has extensive experience in the following areas:

• Digital Logic, Microprocessor Circuit Design
• Sensor and Analog Circuit Design
• Software Engineering (UML-based object-oriented designs)
• Software Coding (C, C++, C#, Assembly, RTOS)
• Internet Appliances, TCP/IP, Ethernet, Remote Control, Data Logging
• Automatic Test Equipment, Custom Production Test Fixtures
• Mechanical Engineering/Industrial Design/CAD
• Medical Device Engineering and Regulatory Agency
• Approvals (FDA/UL/FCC/CE)

• Product Requirements/Feasibility Analysis
• Ergonomics and Human Factors-based User Interface Design
• Circuit Design and Prototyping, PB Board Layout
• Design, Write, Test, and Document Software; Software Validation
• Custom LCD/VFD display and control panel design
• Industrial Design/Prototyping/Tooling for Injection Molding

Product Manufacturing Capabilities

Pipe Organs, MIDI, and Electronic Music

• Some unusual music-related projects
• Brief history of pipe organ technology

• Atmel Development Capabilities
  AVR/mega (ATmega series recommended for new designs)
• AVR32 and Atmel ARM solutions
  Software using IAR-C compiler with VisualState, or Assembly Language)
  AVRISP, JTAG, AVR Internet Tools, Embedded HTML Servers

• Zilog Processors
   
• Rabbit , Z-World Development Capabilities
  All products supported using Dynamic-C, uCOS (real-time operating system)
  Internet and TCPIP, Embedded HTML Servers, Remote Access
• Microchip PIC (most families)
• Motorola, Hitachi, and others

About the Founder

Gordon Minns, Ph.D. has a doctorate in Medical Physiology and BioPhysics, as well as extensive experience in physics, chemistry, electronic and software engineering.