Pintér Gábor

Continued working for Robart, Hilti and others from his home office.

Worked full time at Robart designing IEC 60355 compliant safety critical hardware and software components, using Alium Designer and STM8 microcontrollers. On weekends continued working as freelancer, designing PCBs for Hilti and others.

Moved to Purbach and continued working there. Still worked mostly for GPEG, but also designed LED lamps for APEX-LED, and test equipment for G+.

Moved to Austria, because of the economic crisis in Hungary. Worked mostly for GPEG on a new capacitive sensor, TapTile. Became Gold Level Microchip Design Partner. Used Altium Designer for PCB designs, and learned to use SolidWorks for 3D modelling. Created documentation with OpenOffice tools.

Worked almost excusively for NTERA on a new type of display. Wrote programs for Microchip PIC in assembler and C, and for PC in C#. Designed PCBs in Altium Designer. Unfortunately NTERA dissolved after repeated problems with the chemistry of the display.

Founded PROPIX Ltd. in 2000. Worked as manager, design engineer, consultant, programmer, technical writer and web designer. Wrote programs for Microchip PIC in assembler and C and for PC in Delphi, BDS and Java. Designed active web components in PHP, MySQL, Java and JavaScript. Was the first Hungarian Microchip Design Partner. Designed PCBs in Protel.

Designed flat panel VGA cards, small alphanumeric and graphic controller cards, RFID decoders, keyboard controllers, touch controllers, motor controllers and switch mode power supplies. Programmed Xilinx, Lattice and Altera PLDs. Wrote software in Microchip PIC, 8031, Z80, 8x86 assemblers, C, C++ and Delphi. Created technical documentation in PDF. Was responsible for the work of five other design engineers, and solved technical problems during production.