Innovative Communications Engineering (Ice) Work Values

Daily Duties at Innovative Communications Engineering (Ice):

Designed, developed, integrated, tested software features for Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) program for DoD (Hybrid Switch / Sonet Backbone). The work was done in Linux and Green Hills Integrity environment using c/c++, Python, ACE Tao CORBA, RTI DDS, Green Hills MULTI debugger, HTML, XML, CSS, VectorCast, XILINX FPGA Power PC, ClearCase, CVS, SVN. Major Contributions • Developed an embedded Power PC web server using Light Weight IP for the Hybrid Switch on the XILINX FPGA Power PC. It is used extensively by different disciplines (software/hardware/test) to access devices (dump/modify registers), get stats, see alarms and logs. • Developed Graphical User Interface (GUI) to show reallocation of crosslink bandwidth between circuits and packets over a RF crosslink modem. • Provided Ethernet statistics through embedded web server, UPD interface, as well as CORBA interface. • Integrated software between several TSAT partners (Boeing, L3, GD, and Raytheon). • Designed and developed a finite state machine base class and a socket-based timer base class to be used by all TSAT partners. • Migrated code written in Linux environment (POSIX messaging) to an embedded environment on single-board computer running Green Hills Integrity OS. Converted POSIX messaging to RTI DDS (Data Distribution Service). • Designed and developed (XC2/XC3) XDR Circuit messaging between two PowerPC processors in XILINX Virtex FPGA on the Hybrid Switch. The work involved developing an embedded processor/HW shared memory design to pass critical configuration data (encoded/decoded messages with CRCs, FECs, and byte interleave) from the network to a satellite uplink/downlink data path. • Designed and developed performance monitoring, fault management, timers, syslog, and web server for the Sonet Backbone product. • Performed unit/regression tests using VectorCast. • Developed SLOC Metrics using Opensource sloccount and Python.

What they like about Innovative Communications Engineering (Ice):

Working for a company with an emphasis on social values and helping society is a clear and important priority for you - a critical factor in who you choose to work for. In contrast to other factors, you place an organization's reputation for fairness and concern for the community above most other aspects of the company. As you search for a new job opportunity, it is usually possible to find out if the company is involved in the community and/or if it is addressing problems and issues in society. Pay special attention to non-profit organizations and those specifically involved in social action. Moreover, speaking with current and former employees should enlighten you to perceptions of the fairness of the company's leaders and the treatment of employees.

Tags

C, C++, STL, CORBA, DDS, Green Hills Inegrity, Linus, VxWorks

Skills

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Innovative Communications Engineering (Ice):