Design Services and Capabilities

Analog and RF Design / Analysis:

• DC to 20 GHz design.
• Full Network, Spectrum, Phase Noise and Noise Figure analysis capability to 20 GHz.
• M / N and Fractional N PLL design.
• L/C and Crystal oscillator and VCO design.
• RF leveling loops and AGC circuits from DC to microwave.
• Precision low drift - high resolution signal conditioning circuits.
• Data acquisition boards / system design.
• DC and RF multiplexer / switch matrix design to 20 GHz.
• PID, Bang-Bang and uP based servo control systems.
• ADC / DAC design with advanced sampling techniques to maximize dynamic range.
• High efficiency switching power supply design 1/2 to 100 watts, 1 to 10 outputs, isolated and non-isolated.
• Active and passive filter design from DC to 10 GHz.
• Passive, Ceramic, SAW and Crystal bandpass filter design for communications circuits.
• Magnetics design including: Inductors, Transformers and Baluns using Iron Powder and Ferrite technologies.
• PCB antenna design and characterization.

Digital:

• PLD/CPLD design with Verilog using Xilinx CoolRunner and equivalent technologies.
• In-circuit programming with Xilinx tools.
• RS232, SPI, I2C, Parallel Port, USB, LAN and GPIB design experience.
• Low noise Analog and ADC interface circuits.
• Low cost digital hardware control methods.
• LCD and VFD displays.
• Hardware Integration and turn-on testing.

Microcontrollers:

• Over ten years embedded design experience with Microchip PIC products.
• Single board computers with custom operating systems and embedded DOS.
• Quick time to market prototyping with: PIC, Z-World controllers and similar products.

Firmware / Software:

• PC software design with Visual Basic, Java, C, C# and VEE.
• DOS and Windows application development
• Windows 32 API, ActiveX interface controls, COM components.
• Test system development with Agilent VEE (Formerly HP VEE).
• Virtual Instrument front panel GUI and interface design.
• Embedded Firmware in C.
• Quick turn-on of digitally controlled hardware using in house developed standard interface solutions.

Board design:

• DC to 20 GHz design experience on FR-4 and Teflon PCB material.
• Microstrip, Stripline and Coplanar Waveguide PCB design.
• Controlled impedance with instrument quality performance.
• Single side to 12 layer cost effective design capability.
• Low cost (but not cheap) power supply board design.
• High performance Analog / RF layout.

Signal Integrity:

• RF analysis tools (PSPICE, Agilent ADS) for S parameter, crosstalk analysis and physical design.
• Field solver (Sonnet) for "second opinion" testing, layout simulation and RF launch design.
• Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) and S Parameter analysis to 20 GHz, this proves the designs!

Simulation:

• PSPICE for DC/AC circuit design and analysis.
• Ansoft and Microwave Office for RF design and analysis.
• Sonnet Field Solver for "second opinion" and physical design and analysis.

Turn-key Test and Systems:

• Small / dedicated test system design and programming.
• Power supply and RF Test fixture design and fabrication.
• PC based test systems running DOS or Windows
• Data logging of test results.
• Visual Basic, C and VEE test programming.

Fabrication / Prototyping:

• Fully equipped electronics testing laboratory including temperature testing.
• Complete inventory of surface mount and through hole electronic parts.
• Full prototyping of designs available - Including manufacturing with contract manufacturers (CM's).
• PCB stuffing / testing.
• AutoCAD mechanical design for enclosures and tooling.
• CNC controlled Mill for fabrication.

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