Our Electrical Engineering Skillsets
Our team has a wealth of experience in designing electro-mechanical devices, connected devices and test equipment. We excel at all the stages of product development from customer engagement, planning and requirements gathering to handover and post-handover support including concept development and design strategy, prototyping and design realization, and design iteration and enhancement.
Some of our design capabilities include:
- Understanding and definition of critical customer requirements, timelines and deliverables
- Requirements traceability to system requirements
- Capture of specific usability requirements for User Interface (UI) components
- Preliminary component selection and technology approach
- Consideration of external requirements such as regulatory (FDA, CE) and international electrical safety standards applicable to the type of device being designed
- Hardware specifications generation detailing expected design performance criteria
- Impact analysis of component selection on supply chain (long lead time parts, end-of-life considerations
- Analog and digital circuit design (including widely-used microcontrollers such as the STM8 and MAXIM 32660 (Cortex-M4) based devices)
- Rapid Arduino prototyping of digital control circuits
- Bus technologies including GPIO, SPI, I2C, async serial communication
- Motor control (stepper, servo and brushed/brushless motors)
- Low power (battery-operated) wearable technologies
- UI technologies (displays, keypads, switches, annunciators)
- Sensor interface/integration including magnetic proximity and optical detection technologies
- Through hole, surface mount and multilayer printed circuit board topologies
- High density PCB layout
- Circuit behavior prediction from design inputs including system, electrical, regulatory and safety requirements
- Schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer, our preferred PCB design tool.
- First article bring-up and evaluation
- Hardware integration with firmware, and programming/testing PCBAs
- Board manufacturer liaison to resolve issues
- ETL electrical safety testing support to applicable standards (in conjunction with a 3rd party test body such as Intertek)
- Test reports to support regulatory submissions
- Component selection, tolerance analysis and component end-of-life review
- Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) based on the electrical design
- Risk Analysis and Risk Management Planning associated with electrical design tasks
- Hardware and firmware debugging and incremental design change to address specific areas where specifications are not met
- Data collection from operational prototypes
- Contract manufacturer liaison service for design transition to production