Design Consultancy
- Art of the possible
- How can the product concept best be delivered
- Non-functional requirements
- Data requirements
- Artificial Intelligence implications
- Security requirements
- Cloud vs embedded data processing and storage implications
- Identifying wider system interactions
- Art of the economic
- Advising on Non-Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs vs unit cost
- Functionality vs unit and development cost
- Identifying features which drive the NRE and unit costs
- Advise on potential features to provide future proofing and increase product flexibility
- Proof of concept development
Turnkey Product Development
We can take your product from concept to setting up volume manufacturing or support your team with any aspect of this journey.
- Embedded hardware development
- Prototype hardware production
- Software development:
- Embedded bare metal / FreeRTOS (C/C++)
- Embedded and desktop Linux (C/C++/Python)
- AWS cloud systems
- Mechanical case design
- Manufacturing test systems
- Supporting product certification
- Facilitating volume manufacturing
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Troubleshooting
We can help resolve issues you are encountering such as component shortages, product failures in service, manufacturing yields, missing features, etc.
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Software Support
We are able to augment your existing team either to provide additional specialist skills or to increase your development capacity.
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Automated Test Equipment
We are able to develop complex automated testing equipment including for products that cannot be easily tested with off the shelf pre-existing hardware. Examples may include products with unusual optical sensors, bespoke communications interfaces, or unusual power/load requirements.
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Tools We Typically Use
Hardware Development
- Oscilloscopes
- Bench supplies
- Synthetic loads
- Signal generators
- Temperature data loggers
- Thermal camera
- Logic analysers
- Microscopes
- Spectrum Analyser including EMC probes
- Soldering/desoldering equipment including a large underboard heater, hot air gun, etc.
- Internal stocks of common components
- Numerous evaluation boards
- Various debuggers
- 3D printer
- Sensepeeks for easily connecting to boards
Software Tools
- Altium Designer
- Jira / Azure DevOps
- Google Docs and/or Office 365 for sharing live documents with clients
- Slack for internal and client communications
- Microsoft Teams (when required by specific clients)
- Amazon Web Services (numerous services)
- Git (Bitbucket, GitLab, Azure)
- Various debuggers and development environments depending upon the project
- OpenSCAD for programmatic mechanical designs
- Cursor AI and other Artificial Intelligence tools – subject to client agreement