Ben Jordan studied BEng in Computer Systems Engineering by distance through the University of Southern QLD (who now have a marvellous lab of Altium Nanoboard-IIs). Ben commenced employment with Altium Ltd. in Frenchs Forest, NSW, on October 11 2004, with a primary focus on supporting customers and R&D effort in the Embedded Intelligence functions of Altium Designer (then Nexar 2004 / Protel 2004 products). Ben has assisted development of reference designs, IP Cores, PCBs for prototyping NB2 functions, training material, marketing material, training and demonstration videos etc.
Research and Tinkering Interests
- Digital Audio Electronics and DSP algorithms for Audio Effects
- Tube Amplifiers, Tube simulation and DSP Modeling
- Class D power amplifiers
- Lighting control systems
- Planar Magnetics
YouTube Channel
Published Articles and Media
14-09-2009 New Electronics UK: On Auto-transformers, moving country and the status quo 
23-06-2009 FPGA Journal: The Simulizator is Not God
01-03-2009 Printed Circuit Design and Fab: IC Package to PCB Co-Design
24-01-2006 FPGA Journal: So this engineer walks into a bar...
Places I've Been (Mostly for work, some more than once)
- Sydney (born and raised)
- Hobart TAS
- San Diego (Lived there for about 4 years)
- San Jose CA
- Las Vegas NV
- Pheonix AZ
- Denver / Boulder CO
- Dallas TX
- Houston TX
- Chicago IL
- Pittsburgh PA
- Charlott NC
- Boston MA
- Nashua NH
- Ottawa ON, Canada
- Rochester NY
- Albany NY
- Washington D.C.
- Seattle WA
- Baltimore MD
- Richmond VA