1. Vic Plichota is a consultant with over thirty years experience, specializing in hardware and
software for industrial and scientific data acquisition and embedded real-time control. Vic is a
deep scholar wrt computer architectures and implementations.
Vic's strengths are: embedded systems architecture, UI/UX design, device drivers, bare-metal
assembler, managing and coordinating inter-disciplinary teams, English language prose writing
and editing (especially technical documentation).
Vic is a bad choice for: IT, desktop and/or mobile apps that aren't development tools,
corporate/enterprise programming that involves large bureaucratic teams, working in (or in other
words, "under") big bloated OSs.
vic@MachineQuiltingRobot.com
vic.plichota@gmail.com
voicemail 1 254 247 2265
mobile/text 1 254 913 9149 (please pre-arrange)
Skype vapats1802
Kik vapats
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicplichota
http://MachineQuiltingRobot.com/
antares technical services
4403 CR 3841
San Antonio, TX
USA 76504-5026
Vic is the designer/author of "v4th", a high performance Forth-like language. v4th has been
ported to a wide variety of CPU architectures, and used in diverse money-making products.
Computer language skills: assemblers, BASIC, C, Forth, now adding expertise in
Java/Android/Linux.
Computer Language interests: Ada, Clojure, F#, Factor, Julia, Lua, Python.
Computer Passions: state machines, cellular automata, chaos, fractals, crypto, and designing his
own hybrid-architecture CPU.
MPU experience: ARM-7/9/11/Cortex-A/R/M, MIPS, MSP430, V850, RX, x86, TMS34010/20,
PSC1000, 68HCx, 8051, CDP1802/6.
DSP experience: TI 'C2/'C3/'C4/'C5/'C6, ADI SHARC.
Minicomputer/microcoding experience: DEC PDP-11, DG Nova/Eclipse, HP 2100/21MX/1000/3000.
A brief Curriculum Vitae:
Vic Plichota possesses broad experience in complex electronic, electro-mechanical, computing,
and electro-optic systems.
A few project highlights include:
- Vic helped develop the WESCAM model 104 and 3-D IMAX gyrostabilized camera platforms, along
with other special-purpose systems for cinematography and airborne remote-sensing. He also
fulfilled several government and armed-forces/defense contracts, which cannot be disclosed here

2. in any detail, but they involved helicopters and guided missles.
- Vic designed a variety of commercial and research photovoltaic and solar-thermal systems. Early
adoption of power MOSFETs resulted in a power-converter system that that achieved >95%
efficiency, at low cost. He implemented the first version of the VFORTH computer-language dialect
at this time.
- He spent three months in India, negotiating with an independent investor for a technology-
transfer and factory production scheme for silicon photovoltaic cell manufacture and export
marketing.
- Vic was the digital architect for the very successful AudioScan Real Ear Measurement system for
the hearing-aid market; his analog skills were a fortuitous element to the team's success. He
made the key decision for early adoption of Intel's flash memory. VFORTH was further refined,
and ported to a 32-bit microprocessor platform.
- before the internet and DOCSIS, Vic was part of a team that produced a "smart TV" networked
set-top box using high-speed RF-modem datacomm, and sold to NEC for the hotel market.
- as an entrepreneur, Vic is presently engaged with the MQR (Machine Quilting Robot), which
combines precision motion-control with ease of use, and low cost.
Mr. Plichota is also involved in motorsports engineering; amongst other motor-racing activities,
Antares Tech designs high-performance aftermarket exhaust systems for 2-stroke motorcycles.
He co-formed the Kinomax large-format cinema consortium in 1997.
Vic began a high-tech career while finishing high school; programming and operating an IBM 1130
minicomputer and working as a studio cameraman/producer at a local TV station. While in
university, he gained experience in cine production with the McMaster Film Board. He was then
hired at McMaster University as a Research Assistant in the Engineering Physics dep't, where he
headed the Physical Measurements Laboratory for the Solid-State Physics group, and ran the Solar
Test Facility. He also co-authored several research papers, participated in theoretical modeling,
and developed novel fabrication and characterization techniques for photovoltaic devices. He
gained early experience in a wide variety of computers, instrumentation, high-vacuum, and data-
acquisition systems.
Vic re-launched his career as an independent design consultant, forming Antares Technical
Services. The past 30+ years have seen his involvement in a wide range of projects and clients,
mostly employing embedded microcomputer systems.