SingMai Electronics, (SingMai, สิ่งใหม่, means 'new idea' in Thai), was founded by Daniel Ogilvie and Phuttachad Thiencharoenwong in September 2007.
Born in 1957 in the U.K., Daniel has been involved with electronics, both at an amateur and professional level, since he was sixteen. Daniel has worked for both large and small companies as well as owning and running his own U.K. based company for eleven years. He has worked for companies in such diverse fields as university physics research support, high-end broadcast video, DVD recorder front end semiconductors and high volume consumer electronics, in countries as diverse as Canada, USA, UK, Thailand and Singapore.
Products that Daniel has been involved in include forensic glass refractive index measurement equipment, (occasionally featured on the US TV program CSI), very low-light photon counting video processors, broadcast quality FPGA based video decoders, very high resolution real-time video processors, IC design of video input processors and very low noise amplifiers. Daniel is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of Technical Program Committee for the ISCE conference in 2009 and also has a Masters degree in Art History.
Daniel enjoys art history, opera, writing, cooking and cricket.
Daniel can be contacted directly at daniel@singmai.com
William is our principal software engineer. William has extensive experience of real time embedded solutions for networking, telecommunications and audio and visual applications.
William's projects have involved standard and high definition MPEG decoders and encoders, AV decoders, digital television, cable modems, set-top boxes and an intelligent GPS tracking system for Steve Wozniak's start-up, Wheels of Zeus. William has expertise in C, C++, TCL/TK, SPARC, MIPS, PowerPC, Motorola, Unix, VXWorks as well as experience of GPS, QAM, QPSK and MPEG2.
William enjoys skiing, mountain biking and boxing.
Phuttachad has been involved in the management and sales of a number of companies across the Far East. She has run companies in industries as diverse as silver jewelry manufacture, civil engineering, electronic component distribution and catering. A number of these successful companies she started from the ground up.
Phuttachad is fluent in English, Thai and Mandarin languages as well as having some knowledge of Japanese and Laos.
Phuttachad enjoys cooking, travel and languages, (and was an extra in the movie, Bridget Jones, Edge of Reason).
Phuttachad can be contacted directly at phuttachad@singmai.com
Two older articles on building video framestores that may be of interest.
And some other articles from the past on video.