Simon Wadsworth

I am a Firmware Manager at Morse Micro in Sydney, working on the firmware for a Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) chip.

About

I am a Firmware Manager at Morse Micro in Sydney, Australia, working on the firmware for a Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) chip.

I have a deep interest in wireless technology and embedded systems.

Previously the Director of Engineering at Virscient Limited in Hamilton, New Zealand. I worked on several projects for customers including one of the worlds biggest semi-conductor companies and biggest manufacturer of industrial construction equipment. I was involved in the development of Virscient's Linux Driver for CSR6030 WLAN chipsets, and development, implementation and maintenance of several components of ubiquios, a device agnostic embedded wireless networking stack.

Projects

ospfscan
An OSPF Routing Protocol Monitor capable of scanning OSPFv2 for changes to network topology. The OSPF parsing work I did for this project was then picked up and integrated into libtrace, a network trace processing library from the WAND group at the University of Waikato

Contact

Email

p59avxnz at duck dot com

Education

Master of Science (with Honours) - University of Waikato Graduated April 2014

Bachelor of Science - University of Waikato Graduated January 2011

Work

Morse Micro

  • Firmware Manager May 2021 - Present
  • Principal Firmware Engineer October 2020 - May 2021
  • Senior Firmware Engineer September 2019 - October 2020
Working on the next generation of Wi-Fi chips for IEEE802.11ah/Wi-Fi HaLow for long range communication in the sub 1GHz bands.

Virscient Limited.

  • Director of Engineering November 2018 - September 2019
  • Principal Consultant August 2016 - November 2018
  • Engineer April 2013 - October 2016

Focussed on innovative wireless solutions for customers and Virscient internal projects. Responsbile for technical direction and execution across the entire engineering team.

Mostly focussed on innovative wireless solutions for customers where I regularly act as technical lead. I lead projects including development of software and Wi-Fi subsystem for an inflight entertainment systems, maintenance of customers existing Wi-Fi products, and numerous other technologies including Bluetooth and LoRa/LoRaWAN proof of concepts. I have in the past also spent time contributing to the development of ubiquiOS, in particular the SoftMAC and WLAN architecture.

Originally focussed on ubiquiOS, particularly on the networking components, including HTTP client support, TLS client certificate validation, and TLS server. I was heavily involved in the development of Vircient's Linux Platform for CSR UniFi® CSR6000 chips.