Paul Walker, trading as "4Links for technical help" 
 
Provides consultancy and helps clients to: 

 * Solve technical problems (no fix, no fee) 

   * Understand colleagues' and customers' problems 

     * Design products that delight 

       * Create product and business opportunities 
 
Areas covered include the hardware of computers, communications 
and electronics, and particularly of transputer links and modular 
design.  
 
When at INMOS, Paul originated the TRAM standard for transputer modules 
and did much of the ground-work for HTRAMs and for the DS-Link standards 
included in IEEE P1355.  

As a consultant, Paul was contracted to study 100 metre links 
through standard LAN cabling, which is being proposed as P1355.1. 
He has helped a number of transputer users and others to sort out 
problems, to collect technical information, to understand just what 
their customers are asking for, and to forecast technology trends. 

Speculatively, Paul has developed an architecture for a 
cost-effective interface between virtual channels (such as ATM or 
DS-Links) and computer buses such as ISA or PCI. 

Publications include "Payloads and Overheads" in IEE Review, 
drawing analogies between Communications and the Just-In-Time 
characteristics of the modern factory. 

Independent of transputers and communications, Paul is Deputy Chair 
of the IEE's Professional Group for "Design and Development". 
 
 
Email: Paul Walker <paul@walker.demon.co.uk>
Tel: +44 1908 566253 (01908 566253 in UK) 
Fax: same number 
Address: P O Box 816
	 Two Mile Ash
	 Milton Keynes
	 MK8 8NS
	 UK