Vito Marolda

Welcome to my site.

My name is Vito Marolda and I'm a professional, working in variuos segments of industrial electronics and software applications for small business IT networks. I live in Maranello, (Modena) Italy.

My favourite technologies are: Linux, postgres, hibernate, spring-framework, apache, Java, gli ARM7 and (last but not least) StateWORKS.

I'm consultant for some firms in Italy and across Europe. I offer them consulting and design services about software, and control and power hardware.

I always had a particular feeling with electronics, since I was a child. My parents well remember that, in terms of "repaired" radio-recorders. My teachers also, often had a hard time dealing with such a terrible child. Warm greetings and thanks to all them.

I got my High-School degree in July 1998 at I.T.I. "E. Fermi" in Modena, and the following month of August I started working as hardware and software engineer in an electronic firm in Modena.

On September 1993 I leaved that job to start my professional adventure on the beginning of 1994.

As a professional, I designed:

Industrial printers (hardware and software).

A blood pressure meter with digital filtering (hardware and software).

A self-service 24h videotape rental machine (hardware and software on a pre-existing mechanical machine, shared database with daytime rental shop).

A d.c. motor speed controller (sensorless), for dental use (hardware and software);

Step-motor drivers.

An on-line transparent protocol converter chip (single-chip microcontroller) for various protocol (plug-in) conversion between a peripheral and an industrial PLC.

A custom database software for photo-films selling, developing and printing shop, in Java(TM).

A supervisor software for a Silos Plant, operating 24/7, also written in Java(TM), where a touch-screen PC transforms in polymorphic Java objects the i/o of a connected PLC, whith an event model.

An aesthetic treatment machinery, PC-based, which handles a database of all the customers, and performs the aesthetic treatment. It is Linux-based, the database is postgres, the app is in Java(TM) with touch-screen.

Various microprocessor-based boards, ranging from 8-bit single-chip to the more complex, 32-bit ones with:

ARM7

CPLD

8MB flash

1MB RAM

Tft color lcd

Memory card option with PC-compatible filesystem (for data import/export)

Ethernet, with the following functions:

Embedded web-server for browser-based configuration

Tcp/udp server for automation commands, ip configuration via pc on the same network with automatic device discovery

Internet remote control in server mode or client mode/nat

I'm also a technology consultant: I often work together with inside engineers for creative brainstormings, helping them to find a technological track for the solution of a problem, with cost-benefit analysis.

Having a long-term experience about electronic appliances inside industrial automation machinery, I often perform failure analysis on customer's machines, which is often due to non-optimal cabling.

Since 2006, I am experiencing a new way of designing automation systems: editing state machines with StateWORKS and translating them into C source code with a custom compiler I wrote. Such compiler is targeted to the hardware it has to run on, so the result is fully tailored for the target system. The resulting source code is highly human-readable, so it is easy to find breakpoint points for further debugging of the automation. So my service for customers interested in such way of designing automation systems would be: designing the state machines with StateWorks, tailoring the compiler, and delivery of the tailored compiler. In this way the customer can update the state machines grapically, then launch the compiler, and thus getting the new C sources for the newly designed automation. Persistence support is included (on battery-backup RAM or fast SPI FRAM), so the automation can resume after power-on from the exact point it was turned off.

For contacts, please write me at this address.

In this page you will find a good utility for the HP 48GX calculator, great design companion. I have some other utilities in mind, that I will publish as finished.

Thank you vor your visit at my Website. See you soon. Internet is great.

Vito.