105 S Locust St | Shiremanstown, PA | 717.348.5326 | http://esterlineresearch.

com

Based in Central Pennsylvania, Esterline Research and Design is an electrical engineering
design firm with an emphasis in the frequency control industry. Our expertise comes
from the design and testing of high precision crystal oscillators, for military and
commercial applications.

Our team has a combined 70 years experience in every facet of oscillator design and
testing. The team's primary research interests are the improvement of embedded time
bases, including all aspects of design, manufacture, and test. As a result, our team
provides results for difficult problems that require unique, robust solutions with superior
quality and reliability.

We offer services in the following areas of expertise:
Frequency Control
Provide assistance for creation and evaluation of timebase / crystal oscillator
specifications to ensure that the clients system has a signal source fit for purpose.
Help clients create appropriate screening procedures for various timebases/oscillators.
Deliver troubleshooting support to fix client system issues resulting from timebase /
crystal oscillator defects, such as microjumps, poor phase noise, excessive Allan
deviation/variance, temperature stability non compliance, excessive aging, shock and
vibration effects, etc.
Create timebase / crystal oscillator design for clients that wish to implement their own
embeddable time base such as, XO, VCXO, TCXO, and OCXOs
Test and Automation
Design and provide customized testing solutions for client applications
Design and implement environmental testing (temperature, aging, etc)
Design production test fixturing and software for evaluation of electrical parameters
such as, waveform capture/analysis, power, current, voltage, temperature, frequency,
etc.
RF Circuit Design/PCB Layout
Provide RF circuit design for client applications such as crystal oscillators, Phase Locked
Loops (PLL), multipliers, dividers, mixers, down converters, etc.
Create PCB designs for the above RF applications to minimize noise, and maximize
isolation.
Ceramic Substrate/Package Design
Create customized solutions for clients requiring ceramic substrates and/or multilayer
ceramic packages.
Recommend appropriate ceramic material based on clients specific needs (alumina,
aluminum nitride, etc)
Design appropriate package (potted versus hermetic seal, surface mount versus pinned
device, etc), based on applications environmental requirements (temp, humidly,
shock/vibration, power dissipation)
Micro-Controller/Processor Applications
Design Microcontroller and unique ancillary hardware circuitry to meet the clients
needs.
Create firmware/software design to provide automation and/or human interface as
specified by client
Utilize multicore microcontrollers to create designs that perform more tasks of interest
in a smaller footprint
General Programming and Coding
Provide programming services for custom applications in several languages such as,
Visual Basic, Visual Basic.Net, C, C++, Spin, as well as legacy languages such as Python,
Fortran, HP Basic, etc.


Who we are:

John C. Esterline, M. Eng. E.E. CEO
Personal Objective
Research interests focus on frequency control. Improvement of time base environmental
performance, such as temperature stability, thermal hysteresis, acceleration sensitivity,
aging, etc.

Education
Pennsylvania State University Middletown, PA (2011)
Masters of Engineering in Electrical Engineering
Thesis: G-Compensated Crystal Oscillator
Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering (2007)
Senior Project: Automated Final Test System for Crystal Oscillators

Electronic Institutes Middletown, PA (1999)
Associates degree in Computer and Engineering Technology
Patents / Patent Applications

Name: Crystal oscillator with reduced acceleration sensitivity
Publication #: US8188800 B2
Publication Date: May 29, 2012
Description: Reduction of acceleration sensitivity of crystal oscillator through the use of
multiple crystals to passively compensate for the acceleration sensitivity.


Name: Crystal oscillator with reduced acceleration sensitivity
Publication #: US8525607 B2
Publication Date: September 3, 2013
Description: Expanded claim set for reduction of acceleration sensitivity of crystal
oscillator through the use of multiple crystals to passively compensate for the
acceleration sensitivity.

Name: Crystal oscillator with reduced acceleration sensitivity
Application #: PCT/US2009/063422
Publication Date: May 14, 2010
Description: European Application for reduction of acceleration sensitivity of crystal
oscillator through the use of multiple crystals to passively compensate for the
acceleration sensitivity.

Name: Neural network frequency control
Application #: US 13/570,563
Publication Date: February 13, 2013
Description: Application for compensation of crystal oscillator environmental effects
including temperature, trim effect, etc.

Name: Neural network frequency control
Application #: PCT/US2012/050164
Publication Date: March 28, 2013
Description: European application for compensation of crystal oscillator environmental
effects including temperature, trim effect, etc.

Publications
Trim Effect Compensation Using an Artificial Neural Network
European Frequency and Time Forum & International Frequency Control Symposium
(EFTF/IFC), 2013 Joint

Temperature Compensation of Crystal Oscillators Using an Artificial Neural Network
Frequency Control Symposium (FCS), 2012 IEEE International
Crystal Oscillators: History, Parameters, and Types
Microwave Product Digest, July 2009

Phase Noise: Theory Versus Practicality
Microwave Journal, April 2008

Presentations
Trim Effect Compensation Using an Artificial Neural Network
European Frequency and Time Forum & International Frequency Control Symposium
(EFTF/IFC), 2013 Joint

Compensation of Crystal Oscillators Using ANN
Microwave Theory & Techniques (MTT) Society of the IEEE Long Island Section
February 2013

Temperature Compensation of Crystal Oscillators Using an Artificial Neural Network
Frequency Control Symposium (FCS), 2012 IEEE International
May 2012
Employment

Chief Executive Officer
Esterline Research and Design, Shiremanstown PA May 2014 Present
Consulting in the areas of:
Frequency control
RF systems
Test and automation
Ceramic substrate and package design
General microcontroller applications

Design and manufacture of high precision RF test equipment such as:
Multi-channel RF frequency counter system
Multi-channel programmable mixer/downconverter
Multi-channel low noise synthesizer
Multi-channel high precision temperature measurement system

Senior Design Engineer
Greenray Industries, Mechanicsburg PA May 2006 - April 2014

Design of precision TCXO's, OCXO's and VCXO's for commercial, military and high
shock/vibration applications.
Research and Development of new oscillator compensation methods.
Interfacing with patent attorneys to create patents around new technologies.
Writing and publishing technical articles related to oscillators.
Lecturing at conferences and customer locations on oscillators and new patented
technologies.
Ceramic package design for commercial, military, and high shock/vibration applications.
Writing and implementing ATPs and QTPs for various oscillator designs.
Perform failure analysis and travel to customer sites to resolve issues in the field.
Developing and implementing of DOEs to resolve issue and improve reliability and
performance of various oscillators.
Design and implementation of production environmental test systems for TCXOs, OCXOs,
VCXOs, and ANNCXOs.

Senior Troubleshooting Technician
CTS Reeves October 1999 - August 2002

Managed a staff of 3 assemblers, and 2 technicians for a military grade OCXO.
Responsible for making sure line output met production needs of the program.
Oversaw all aspects of the production from assembly, test, aging, environmental
screening, and packaging.
Aided other production lines in test and troubleshooting of product to ensure on-time
delivery of a broad range of TCXO, OCXO, and VCXO products.

Alan W. Snavely, COO
Personal Objective
To develop new techniques to improve the speed and precision of frequency and time
measurements and to employ those new techniques in the form of test hardware as
either stand-alone equipment for Engineering testing or embedded in systems for
production testing.

Education
Electronic Institutes Highspire, PA (1974)
Associates in Electrical Engineering Technology

Patents
Co-inventor on a provisional patent relating to Oscillator Technology filed February 2014.

Employment
Chief Operations Officer
Esterline Research and Design,Shiremanstown, PA, May 2014 Present

Consulting in the areas of:
Frequency control
RF systems
Test and automation
Ceramic substrate and package design
General microcontroller applications

Design and manufacture of high precision RF test equipment such as:
Multi-channel RF frequency counter system
Multi-channel programmable mixer/downconverter
Multi-channel low noise synthesizer
Multi-channel high precision temperature measurement system

Senior Design Engineer
Greenray Industries, Mechanicsburg PA June 2003 April 2014
Design, construction, and maintenance of a wide variety of automated test systems for
the validation of parametric performance of Greenray oscillators including:Temperature
Test Systems for oscillator frequency vesus temperature compliance testing. Temperature
Test Systems for calibration of TCXO designs incorporating both resistor-thermistor
networks as well as multi-order polynomial ASIC's.Test Systems to demonstrate frequency
aging compliance. Automated turn hunt systems for OCXO's.
Design of precision TCXO's, OCXO's and VCXO's for commercial, military and high
shock/vibration applications.
Ceramic package design for commercial, military, and high shock and vibration
applications.
Technical writer for ATP's and QTP's needed for military-grade oscillators.
Perform failure analysis and travel to customer sites to resolve issues in the field.
Performed numerous DOEs and generated numerous internal technical reports detailing
the results of these experiments.

Engineering Manager
CTS Corp., CTS Frequency Control Products, Carlisle PA October 1997 June 2003
Managed a staff of five engineers and one technician in the Discrete Oscillator
Engineering Department. This department was responsible for producing the OCXO and
TCXO designs primarily used in telecom, military, and test equipment applications.
Responsibilities included scheduling and timeline/project planning activities for
subordinates as well as actual test system and oscillator design activity as needed.
Primary Design Engineer for military-grade oscillator designs and supporting testing
hardware and software.
Design Engineer
Reeves Hoffman Division, Carlisle PA October 1985 October 1997
Test System design (aging and temperature test systems). Other responsibilities included
the design of TCXO's incorporating resistor-thermistor networks as well as OCXO's, and
VCXO's for both commercial and military applications.

Terry L. Hitt, CSDO
Personal Objective
To develop state of the art microcontroller firmware to meet the needs of any
application, with a focus in frequency control and test and automation.
Employment
Chief Software Development Officer
Esterline Research and Design May 2014 Present
Consulting in the areas of:
Frequency control
RF systems
Test and automation
Ceramic substrate and package design
General microcontroller applications

Design and manufacture of high precision RF test equipment such as:
Multi-channel RF frequency counter system
Multi-channel programmable mixer/downconverter
Multi-channel low noise synthesizer
Multi-channel high precision temperature measurement system

Systems Engineer
Greenray Industries, Mechanicsburg PA Oct 1997 April 2014
Design, construction, and maintenance of a wide variety of automated test systems for
the validation of parametric performance of Greenray oscillators:
Temperature Test Systems for oscillator frequency verses temperature compliance testing.
Temperature Test Systems for calibration of TCXO designs incorporating resistor-
thermistor networks.
Test Systems to demonstrate frequency aging compliance.
Automated crystal turn hunt systems for OCXO's
Micro-computer programming and implementation for a variety of applications:
In-line functionality testers for Contract Manufacturers to test a variety of wire-bonded
and flip-chip assemblies built for Greenray.
Assembly language programming of various single-core and multi-core microcontrollers.
Designed and built a monitoring system with alarms and graphical visual display to alert
personnel of elevated CO2 levels and exposure limits.
Developed the firmware for a vibration-compensated, OCXO-disciplined TCXO.
Developed TCXO ASIC emulator for use with ANNCXO development.
Developed multi-core microcontroller firmware for the production implementation of
Greenrays patented ANN technology.
Design of precision MCXO's and DCXOs for commercial and military programs.
Design of GPS-disciplined OCXO.