• System Architecture
• Schematics, Netlist, Place & Route guidelines
• Bill Of Materials (BOM), Component procurement strategy
• PCB Layout, Signal Integrity Analysis, Gerber
• PCB Fabrication and Assembly
• System Verification and Validation

Quality Assurance

• Quality Assurance Testing for Tier-1 OEMs for the past three years:
  – Firmware, Storage, Network and Manageability areas.
  – Hardware and Software components testing.
  – Network controllers VMWare Certification (1GB, 10GB and 40GB NICs).
  – Microsoft WHQL (Windows Hardware Quality Labs) testing and certification.
  – Microsoft System Center (SCCM, SCOM, SCE) Testing
• IPMI/DASH/SMASH Standards testing focusing on Power, WOL, Security, Active Directory, Scalability (Mostly under an Embedded Linux / Embedded Controller)
• Testing Hardware at different stages (SW Simulation verification, P0/Alpha, P1/Beta, and Revenue Releases/Production)
  – Different Hardware Configurations
  – Multiprocessor Systems.
  – Performance Testing
  – Stress Testing; Robustness Testing
• User Interface (Look and Feel Functionality)
• Great focus on our “ARSS” Testing Practices to achieve the Highest Quality possible:
  – Availability (off-line time)
  – Reliability (any failures)
  – Security (not exposed)
  – and Serviceability/MTTR (how

System Software

Device Drivers

-High Performance Network Device Drivers

• 1G, 10G and 40Gb Controllers

– Storage

• Windows 2003 & 2008, Linux, VMWare and Solaris
• SAS, SATA, SCSI, ISCSI, FC, FCOE
• RAID and IDE RAID

Develop, Test, Deliver Digitally Signed Drivers (Microsoft, VMWare certified)

Firmware

• BIOS/EFI/IPMI/SMASH/Utilities/Diagnostics
• Platform customizations
• Modules and components development
• ACPI and power management
• USB
• HW power-on support
• Hyper Transport
• IPMI and event logging
• PCI/PCIE/PCIX
• Intel/AMD/VIA/SIS/ALI/Nvidia/ATI chipsets/CPUs
• Multi Processors Systems
• SMBUS; SMBIOS; SMI; Error handling; ASF;
• C/C++ , x86 Assembly, PowerPC, IA32, IA-64, AMD-64, Itanuim
• OOD, OO programming
• PC Architecture, Customization, Technology/Specification Development
• Remote management in servers, IPMI
• Network programming:
  – Network protocols : IEEE 802.3 ,IEEE 802.11x,RFID,TCP/IP,SNMP
  – Network management framework (Web NMS).
  – 802.11x (WLAN) and SNMP protocols.
• SMASH/CLP, CIM (Common Information Module)
• Lex and Yacc
• Embedded controller programming
  – PPC, Arm, H8
  – RTOS (uCOS-II), Embedded OS (Threadx, Embedded Linux)
• Video compression – Eclipse, MFC