ELECTRONICS
Here is an overview of our electronic design skills:
- Schematic and PCB design:
- Analog or mixed-signal (analog/digital) boards for data acquisition.
- High-density(HDI) and high-speed boards DDR, MIPI-DSI, MIPI-CSI, PCIExpress, ...).
- Small signal measurement (currents, voltages, capacitive sensors, ...).
- Integration of any micro-processor or micro-controller, it can be:
- Low-Energy systems: MSP430, PIC, ARM Cortex-M0
- Any ARM-Cortex CPU: M3, M4, A5, A7, A8, A9,...
- Multimedia platforms such as NXP i.MX6, i.MX7
- Telecom CPU such as NXP PowerPC
- Digital Signal Processors (DSP): Texas Instruments C54x, C55x, C6xxx, ...
- Integration of any programmable logic components:
- FPGA or CPLD.
- Any manufactured depending of project requirements: Altera, Xilinx, Microsemi, ...
- VHDL programming.
- Support for any type of wired communication media:
- Standard: RS232, RS485, CAN, USB (2.0, 3.0), Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbps),...
- Industrial field buses: Profibus, ModBus (TCP), ...
- Support for any type of wireless communication media:
- Bluetooth Classic, Bluetooth Low Energy (BTLE), WiFi, ZigBee, 802.15.4,...
- Long range: GSM, SMS, GPRS, 3G, 4G, SigFox, LoRa, proprietary ISM band protocols (433MHz, 868 MHz, 2.4GHz),...
- Integration of GPS receivers in any product, depending of power consumption, size, ...
- Handling of power management:
- Strong experience in selection, charging and monitoring of embedded batteries.
- In-house optimized design of DC/DC converters on all of our boards.
- Ultra-Low-energy board design with miniature batteries.
- Integration of user interfaces:
- Integration of TFT or OLED displays (touch or not) following various specifications (size, quality, resolution, ...)
- Displays with Ecrans eInk technology for ultra-low-power devices.
- Membrane keyboards, LEDs, capacitive keypads, ...
- Mechanical integration:
- Design of housings for industrial applications (rack-mount, ...).
- Integration of electronic boards in custom housings provided by external designers.
- Fast prototyping solutions of housings during the early phases of the design.
- Specific skills acquired from past experiences:
- Measurement of very small currents for radio-activity sensors (ionization chambers, dosimetry, ...).
- Design of medical devices (specific EMC and safety standards, redundancy for critical products, ...).
- Integration of chip cards, contact-based (normes ISO7816 et EMV) or contacless (RFID, NFC).
- Complet system design for IP Telephony (amplfiiers, microphone/speakers, CODECs, DSP, CPU, Ethernet, ...).
- Smartphones or Tablets accessories (iOS or Android, wired or wireless).
- Custom 10/100/1000 Ethenret switches, integration of Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) technologi in electronic devices.
- Anti-tampering security protection of sensitive devices (point-of-sales terminals - PCI-PTS).
- Digital motor control suing DSPs.