Printed circuit design for production since 1989 — Kyiv, then Edinburgh.
Profile
Design engineer, practising since 1989. A controller range designed for one client passed roughly 300,000 units and is still in its price list; an early instrument line at another became the relay protection catalogue it sells today, past its 60,000th instrument; a first-generation software-defined radio platform became a lineage whose later generations remain in state service. The work spans aerospace instrumentation, industrial automation, energy metering, grid protection, medical diagnostics and software-defined radio. Manufacturability, assembly and test are designed in from the start. One project at a time; delivery dates are not quoted. None of it was done alone: each of these products was built with circuit designers and programmers.
Tools & domains: Cadence OrCAD (own perpetual licence, preferred) · Altium · KiCad · Eagle · EasyEDA · schematic capture and layout · DFM / DFT / DFA · analog, mixed-signal and RF · high-speed digital · flex and rigid-flex · FPGA · software-defined radio · embedded firmware · sensors · industrial automation · energy metering · automotive high-voltage and CAN · full-stack cloud and web infrastructure.
The work
spans aerospace instrumentation, industrial automation, energy metering, power grid protection, medical diagnostics, and software-defined radio for electronic warfare and direction finding. Most of it was for series production rather than prototypes, and several of the product lines are still being manufactured.
Metering instruments built on these designs hold Ukrainian state metrological approval and are entered in the State Register of Measuring Instruments. The industrial automation products are manufactured to registered technical specifications (TU), certified for conformity with Ukrainian national standards (DSTU), and carry a declared intended use. For a British reader that is the BS/EN regime under different initials. The specifications and certificates are published by the clients themselves; the chronology below links to them.
Delivery dates are not quoted because a project is not started until the one before it is finished.
The practice carries a couple of corporate clients. Three is already a great many, and the number is a consequence of the working method rather than an ambition.
The next work is directed at industry and energy — the sectors most of the record below already sits in: industrial automation, energy metering and grid protection.
Work can begin from an idea rather than a finished specification. Concept through schematic capture and fab-ready Gerbers. The design work is done in Cadence OrCAD, on a perpetual licence held here; another package can be used where there is a reason for it, including the client's own. Parts procurement and assembly follow, from a single prototype through production quantities.
None of this was done alone. Every one of these products was built with circuit designers and programmers; a design that stays in production for twenty years is not one person's work. What follows is the chain in order, with nothing left out.
Record
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I read radio engineering at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from 1983 to 1989, and started at a state aerospace instrument works in Kyiv the year I graduated — not in the design office but on the floor, with a trade title, at a plant that belonged to the Soviet space and missile industry. The hardware was expected to hold tolerance rather than merely to function, and I learned that with a meter in my hand before I ever drew a board. Three years later I moved into the printed circuit design department and started drawing them. Those were the conversion years: the plant was moving off the mechanical rotary-dial generation onto electronic telephone sets. Alongside it I took a small piece of freelance work on medical diagnostic equipment, made from a circuit somebody else had drawn. Coming up inside a complete change of technology base — and seeing it carried all the way to series production — turned out to be the thing I would keep doing.
Since then the pattern has repeated: a company's first instruments become the catalogue it sells twenty years later; a controller range passes three hundred thousand units and stays in the price list; a first-generation radio platform becomes a lineage whose successors are still in service.
I take one project at a time and do not quote delivery dates. Originating a product cannot be run in parallel.
After the Crover engagement I went into automotive electronics, taking four non-running cars back to road-worthy condition across all four powertrains — diesel, petrol, plug-in hybrid and full electric — to learn high-voltage architecture and CAN-bus behaviour by hand. This site is written and deployed by me, front to back.
Certification & standards
Metering instruments built on these designs hold Ukrainian state metrological approval and are entered in the State Register of Measuring Instruments. The industrial automation products are manufactured to registered technical specifications (TU), certified for conformity with Ukrainian national standards (DSTU), and carry a formally declared intended use — for a British reader, the BS/EN regime under different initials. Specifications and certificates are published by the clients.
A2E Tech Limited
is the current legal entity, registered in Scotland in 2022. The practice behind it goes back to 1989, carried through a succession of earlier companies, in several cases with the same customers.
Companies House ↗Edinburgh, EH2 4AN