Robert Lamkin founded Trailblazer Design in 2001 to assist clients with rapid development of their computer-based products. Trailblazer Design will help you to promptly and successfully develop your product. We have expertise to assist you in these areas:

• Embedded and real-time computer systems
• Digital signal processing
• Medical product design for regulatory approval, ISO, TUV, UL, CSA
• Radio Frequency (RF) ablation for medical uses
• Product conceptual design. and specification
• Digital circuits including FPGAs, VHDL and AHDL
• Analog circuits and SPICE analysis
• Application and real-time software design, coding and testing
• LabView data acquisition and display
• System engineering, hardware/software partitioning
• Project management and tracking
• Project staff selection and interviewing
• Team building
• Consultant and vendors selection: Trailblazer Design maintains extensive industry contacts in allied and complementary areas to help you get the experts you need, e.g. Industrial Design and Mechanical design

Mr. Lamkin's experience includes the development of many medical and some non-medical products:

• RF ablation systems
• Ultrasound systems
• an eye-safe infrared Laser Ranging and Tracking System with networked DSPs
• a Gamma Camera, a Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) system
• a Radiation Therapy Planning (RTP) system

Mr. Lamkin's education includes a B.S. in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) and extensive graduate level training in electronic systems and circuits, computer science, bioengineering and cellular electrophysiology, all at UC Berkeley. He was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) training grant to support his graduate-level training.