Ben Harding has a BSEE from the University of Alabama with post graduate studies in digital signal processing, control theory, parallel processing and robotics. Ben has held leadership and design roles in a wide range of design and research projects. He has over 20 years of extensive embedded system design experience. His hardware design experience includes high-speed design with DSPs, network processors and programmable logic. Ben also has embedded software development experience in a broad range of areas including voice and signal processing algorithm development and board-support package development for numerous real-time operating systems.