Martin Brennan is a computer engineer who developed pioneering

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s such as the

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(for Sinclair Research) and the Atari Jaguar

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. A physics graduate of

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, he was a co-founder of

Flare Technology Flare Technology was a computer hardware company based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It was founded in 1986 by Martin Brennan, Ben Cheese, and John Mathieson, former engineers at Sinclair Research. Flare Technology first worked for Amstrad befor ...

, a design house involved in the design of the ill-fated

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. Brennan initially worked for Sinclair Research where he designed the digital electronics and software in

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before going on to found Flare with ex-Sinclair colleagues John Mathieson and

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. After working at Flare on the ''Flare 1'' and its development into the

he went on to work for

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developing the Atari Panther and the Atari Jaguar. In 1997 Brennan founded the "Cheap & Cheerful Chip Company" which later went on to become

Global Silicon Limited Global Silicon Limited is a fabless semiconductor company founded in 1997 in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Global Silicon designed and produced system level semiconductors for the consumer audio market. Global Silicon created a number of new ICs t ...

. In 2007 Brennan designed the Brennan JB7 digital jukeboxElectronics Weekly 2007-09-26 produced by 3GA Ltd (Third Generation Audio). The second generation audio player, Brennan B2 with web interface, based on the Raspberry PI chipset, is available as of 2015. In 2019, Brennan released th
Brennan BB1
audio player which shares the same software and architecture of the B2 but packages it in

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format at a lower price. Featuring an integrated speaker and able to run on 4 AA batteries the BB1 is controllable via physical buttons or a smartphone/web app and can act also integrate with

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and

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References

External links

*http://www.konixmultisystem.co.uk *http://www.brennan.co.uk Computer hardware engineers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sinclair Research Alumni of the University of Cambridge {{compu-bio-stub