Mario Giani

Managing the team based in Nice, Paris and Northampton in charge of supporting the European customer for the applications in the multimedia market (STB, PMP, DMA, DPF, etc.) Definition with the customers of the solutions adapted to their needs, technical validation of the proposal together with the internal development team and the third parties, technical support during the customer integration phase. Program management for the major European accounts.

Leading the software development team, based in US and France and managing the HW and SW development team based in France. Definition of the functional requirements of the chip and the software architecture. Design, implementation, test and validation of several SW modules (demux, CA, ATA/IDE interface, etc.). Project leader of the implementation of the OpenTV and MediaHighway adaptation layers: design, implementation, test and validation of several drivers. Customer support for different clients.

Analysis and evaluation of the speech codecs suitable for the mobile telephony systems. Implementation of the complete software for the first demonstrator on multi DSP board. Participation to the standardization group of the GSM Half-Rate codec. Definition of the general architecture of a set-top box (functionality, hardware components, software architecture) and implementation of some specific drivers (graphics and video).

Research contract in collaboration with the European Space Agency and Politecnico. Study and simulation of algorithms of radar image processing. Implementation of the studied algorithms (C and Fortran languages).

Digital Signal Processinf