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Altera Corporation Toronto, ON 2005
Altera is one of the largest makers of FPGAs and CPLDs. Altera also provides a Structured ASIC solution known as HardCopy. Altera is also known for its leading edge FPGA CAD software called Quartus II. Currently, Altera provides the fastest and largest FPGA device known as the Stratix II.
Andrew Ling was part of a research and development team at the Altera Toronto Technology Centre. Here, he worked with the physical synthesis group and helped on various physical synthesis projects; several of which dealt with Altera's HardCopyII product. During his time at Altera, Andrew was able to submit two patents and submit one paper.

Identiphi (SAFLINK) Edmonton, AB 2002-2003
SAFLINK provides biometric and smart card security solutions into physical and network domains. One of their leading products include EntryPoint and SAFsolution which provides seamless support for biometric and smart card login into the Windows OS.
Andrew Ling was responsible for various projects to support SAFsolution and other biometric products. Andrew was also in charge of assessing the security features of SAFLINK's products.

General Dynamics (CDC) Calgary, AB 2001
General Dynamics (GD) is one of the largest military contractors to the US Department of Defense. GD also provides equipment to several other western governments who are allied with the USA. GD provides a wide range of military equipment including air, ground, and marine defense, and communication systems for military units.
Andrew Ling was part of the TPS team in General Dynamics Calgary head-quarters. During this time, Andrew developed several support tools for the TPS team and developed a diagnostic support tool for military radio units.

PMC-Sierra Vancouver, BC 2000
PMC-Sierra is one of the leaders in providing network chips for networking equipment. Some of PMC-Sierra's largest customers include Cisco Systems and Nortel.
Andrew was part of the product development department and aided in testing several chips before tape out. One of Andrew's main tasks was to test PMC's Narrowband Switching Element chip (NSE).

GMCL Edmonton, AB 1999
GMCL is a consulting firm and provides specialized software support for process control systems. Their leading product is DBDOC which addresses the need for a comprehensive view of disparate system resources in Bailey and other systems.
Andrew Ling added several features to GMCL's DBDOC tool including a file organization wizard and a user tutorial package.


Last updated Jan 2006