Our Team

Steve is the Managing Director of STAR-Dundee Ltd. He has over 23 years experience as an electronic engineer and has spent more than 15 years working on electronic systems for spacecraft. Steve is a chartered engineer, chartered physicist and chartered IT professional.

He is the technical leader of the SpaceWire Working Group and wrote the SpaceWire standard document (ECSS-E50-12A) with support from members of the working group. Steve has worked on SpaceWire technology since 1992.

Iain is both the Company Secretary and a Senior Software Engineer for STAR-Dundee Ltd. He has been writing drivers and test software for SpaceWire devices for many years and is currently responsible for the SpaceWire PCI-2 and SpaceWire DSP drivers.

Iain is also experienced in writing software for real-time operating systems such as VxWorks and the VisualDSP++ Kernel from Analog Devices.

Chris is the electronic systems designer of STAR-Dundee. Chris is experienced in FPGA and ASIC designs and has worked on routers, interfaces and test and development boards for SpaceWire.

He has recently completed SpaceWire router design for a radiation tolerant Atmel device which will be realised by Austrian Aerospace. The project was run by ESA as a routing platform for data system payloads in the present future. Previously Chris was involved in a customisable design of the SpaceWire CODEC/link interface.

Stuart has recently completed a PhD related to SpaceWire drivers and higher level protocols.

He is a Senior Software Engineer for STAR-Dundee Ltd. and is responsible for the drivers for the SpaceWire USB devices for both Windows and Linux.

Martin has recently finished working on a feature extraction and tracking FGPA chip for Astrium and ESA to support vision guided planetary landers.

He is a Senior Software Engineer for for STAR-Dundee Ltd. and is involved with designing and implementing FPGA solutions in VHDL as well as providing Linux technical support within the team.