Dark Magic Design, LLC

About

About Us…

We are a small consultancy with a background in…

  • Embedded Hardware/Software/Firmware Development
  • FPGA Hardware/Firmware Development
  • Satellite Systems Engineering (including SmallSat/CubeSat platforms)
  • Signal Processing/Communication System Development
  • Phased Array and General Antenna Design/Development

Please NOTE that we are not actively booking any consulting engagements. My current focus is on the Open Source projects documented on this website.

At some point in the future we may offer a limited set of products associated with our current projects. Stay tuned…

What We Do…

We are mostly focused, at present, on the projects described by this webpage. At present I work for a local FFRDC supporting space related endeavors…


Embedded Design Projects – We’re currently designing and building a distributed automotive DC power distribution and management system. I’m mostly flabbergasted by the ridiculous cost of controlling a few relays with remotely mounted switches. There is a serious lack of Open Source hardware addressing the RV and expedition vehicle niche. I aim to change this. I have a good deal of experience with embedded hardware/software development, and I’m finding the automotive environment to be interesting.

FPGA Development – I have a moderately deep experience base with development of FPGA based hardware/firmware. I’m fluent in both Verilog and VHDL. My immediate focus is on building background in VHDL formal verification, and on building out a formally verified SDR framework in VHDL.

Signal Processing/Communication System Development – We’ll work with you the entire way, from wireframes to walking you through live code previews.

Satellite System Engineering – Yep… Space…

RF System/Antenna Design – I’ve got fairly deep experience with RF system design from about 250 MHz to upwards of 50 GHz. Patch antennas… Phased array antennas… Transceivers of various types…

Meet our amazing team.

We aim to do stuff. We do it well. Sometimes we misbehave. There are often potentially lethal voltages involved.

John Wiley

Founder/Principal Engineer

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Watson and Sherlock

Magpie Wranglers

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Get a project quote today!

We’ll put together a customized quote about your project and work with you to get started on your project. Let’s build something together!

Note that we are not accepting consulting engagements at this time. Our proverbial calendar is packed…