Engineering Services

The experience and skill of our engineering department are apparent from initial discussions through final product validation.  Share your product concept or application issues with us and discover how a team of talented designers can bring you success.  Whether you need a simple PCB layout or a complete turnkey design of an electronic product, we thrive on technology and love a good challenge.

PCB DESIGN

A printed circuit board (PCB) can be an asset or a liability for an electronic product.  For more than 25 years, we have designed PCBs for a variety of challenging applications.  Our designers are IPC certified and are skillful craftsmen who will work with you to design a quality PCB that meets all your requirements.

CAPABILITIES:

• High-Speed Digital Designs to GHZ+ on FR4 & High-Performance Materials
• Low-Level Analog, RF, LVDS, GTL+, PECL
• DDR/DDR2 & 3, Memory, DVI, Ethernet, USB2, PCIX, PCI

PRIMARY SOFTWARE PLATFORMS:

• Altium Nexus
• Any Netlist Format for Input
• CAM350 Pre-Fabrication Gerger Verification

EMC/EMI SIGNAL INTEGRITY ANALYSIS

• Termination & Topology Strategies
• Stack-Up, Impedance & Analysis

CIRCUIT BOARD DESIGN:

• Complete Traditional Printed Circuit Boards - 1 to 30 layers
• Micro-BGA, Micro-Vias, HDI, Impedance Control
• Pre-Layout Thermal Planning
• Low-Loss Materials, Metal Cores, Heat Plates

BOARD FABRICATION:

• Pre-Fabrication IPC Netlist
• Verification of Gerbers
• IPC Netlist Board Conformance
• Testing

ASSEMBLY & PROTOTYPING:

• Component Procurement
• Turnkey Assembly
• Cabling, System Board
• Interconnect

PERMISSIBLE AREA EQUIPMENT:

• Mining, Oil & Gas Applications
• Explosion Proof Designs
• Intrinsically Safe Designs

MECHANICAL DESIGN

Your systems have mounting and volume constraints.  We can help you meet those needs and package your PCB efficiently in an appropriate enclosure.  Machined, fabricated or molded enclosures can be provided.  CAD 3D modeling of PCBs, components, enclosures, and mounting will verify efficient manufacturing and fitment for your application before integration occurs.

CAPABILITIES:

• Conceptual Designs, Proposals, Proof of Concept
• Industrial Design
• Controls & Panel Design using Silicone Keypads/Sealed
• Key Switch Technology
• Sheet Metal Enclosure Product Design
• Vendor Selection Assistance for Prototype Tooling
• Reverse Engineering
• Legacy Conversions - 2D Drawings & Modeling into 3D Formats

PRIMARY SOFTWARE PLATFORM:

• AutoCAD Inventor
• SolidWorks

ELECTROMECHANICAL PRODUCT DESIGN:

• Conceptual Development
• Detailed Design
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Enclosure Solutions
• Engineering 
• Prototyping
• Product Testing
• Manufacturing
• Computer-Aided Drafting
• General Solid Modeling
• Sheet Metal Modeling 
• Detailing & Drafting
• Complex Assembly Mgmt.
  Complex Surfaces (Class A)
• Wire & Pipe Routing
• Digital Renderings

HARDWARE DESIGN

Our design services cover the entire spectrum of capabilities required to produce a complete PCB or packaged product.  Circuit design services include analog, digital, power, and RF integration.  Our Hardware Design team can work seamlessly with in-house manufacturing and software developers or provide documentation for 3rd party integrators.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Wireless Intelligent Design/Antennas
• Extensive RF/RFID Design/Bluetooth
• 8/16/32/64 Bit uC
• High-Speed Digital
• Low-Level Analog
• Signal Conditioning
• DC/DC Power Conversion
• Battery Management

CERTIFICATIONS:

• CE, FCC, UL & FM
• MIL-SPEC
• ITAR Registered
• AS13485
• ATEX/Intrinsic Safety

CAPABILITIES:

• Project & Risk Management
• Contingency & Technology Planning
• High-Level System Architecture
• Functional & Technical Specifications
• Advanced Electronic Circuit Design
• Mechanical/Packaging Design
• Industrial Design/3D Modeling
• Rapid Prototyping
• Simulation/Analysis
• Digital/Analog/Thermal/FEA
• Build & Test System Design
• Application Development
• Prototype Development
• Assembly
• Design Validation
• Environmental Testing
  • Mechanical & Electrical
• Manufacturing Documentation
• ICT/FT & Manufacturing Management

SOFTWARE DESIGN

Our engineers are well versed in the issues of real-time software design.  Applications that involve data integrity, deterministic machine control, multitasking, distributed control and communication, and proportional integral differential (PID) control are common ground for our engineering team.

EMBEDDED SOFTWARE:

• C/C++ & Assembly
• 8/16/32-Bit Embedded Microcontrollers, Microchip, TI, Atmel, Freescale, 8051s & more
• Embedded Microprocessors - x86, PowerPC, ARM
• Communication Devices
• Control Applications
• Instrumentation

SOFTWARE LANGUAGES:

• C, C++, C#
• Visual Studio, .NET
• Visual BASIC
• Various Assemblers

OPERATING SYSTEMS:

• Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/Vista
• Linux - Embedded & Desktop/Server
• MS-DOS

TEST/MEASUREMENT LABVIEW APPLICATIONS:

• Integrating Data Acquisition Boards & Systems

PRIMARY SOFTWARE PLATFORM:

• Test Systems
• Control Applications
• Windows Device Drivers

PROTOCOLS:

• TCP/IP & Ethernet
• USB
• MODBUS, CAN
• Bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee