About

Relative Jump is owned by Jeff McBride, an Electrical Engineer with over 15 years of broad experience designing embedded systems, and pushing ideas from concept to shipment. Jeff has worked in the small unmanned aerial systems (SUAS) space, co-founded a successful company to build multispecral sensors for agricultural remote sensing, and developed Rust firmware for new space rocket flight control systems. Relative Jump can provide a range of engineering services to augment your team, or to handle quickly turning your idea into a working prototype.

Technology Expertise:

Embedded Systems Experience

FPGA Development (Altera, Xilinx, Actel, Lattice)
FPGA SoC Processors (ARM, Nios, Microblaze)
CMOS imager integration
Optical systems architecture
Embedded linux and kernel drivers
Small real-time kernels (FreeRTOS, uC/OS-II)
AVR, ESP32, STM32 MCUs
Board design (Kicad, Altium)
Enclosure Prototyping
Automated test fixtures

Software Development

Rust
C/C++
Python
Javascript