Services

Introduction

• Electronic digital & analog hardware/software/firmware designs
• Conventional and data flow/functional multi-core systems
• Quality/process improvement
• Migration (porting) of legacy systems
• Existing system enhancement
• Disparate systems integration
• Service, maintenance, and support of new and legacy systems
• Smart Diagnostics
• Self-adaptive closed-loop solutions
• Advanced signal/data analysis
• System level, board level, and component level solutions
• Program/project management
• Technology advisory liaison
• Troubleshooting of infrequent/intermittent problems
• Web-based access to embedded remote resources
• PCB design
• Packaging

What follows are representative examples of our broad experience. Pick our brains, there is much more to be related than this short summary

Embedded

• Microprocessors, DSP, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), Field Programmable Analog Arrays (FPAA), multi-core/parallel processing
• High level model based design targeting efficient embedded implementations
• Example case: Matlab/Simulink, Labview, UML … targeting C/C++ based embedded DSP, FPGAXilinx, Altera), conventional embedded processors (such as ARM, Blackfin, TI DSP etc.
• Novel sensor/actuator/multi-processing solutions
• Example case: vision sensors fused with accelerometers and acoustic sensors to determine mechanical health and predict maintenance requirements
• Ultra-small form-factor solutions
• Example case: PLC speed & capability enhanced through the addition of a small embedded processor solution implementing a high speed sensor failure analysis via a wireless link
• Smart embedded vision systems

Industrial Controls

• Vision, SCADA, Robotics, Servo Motion, Data Acquisition, Networking, PID
• Specialized combinations of conventional and embedded industrial solutions
• Plant wide cost reduction programs; improved throughput, material/resource reduction, utility savings
• Process and Quality Improvement

Sensor and Actuator

• Smart/adaptive
• Sensor Fusion

Signal Processing

• Digital signal processing (DSP)
• Novel analog signal processing
• Case: Field programmable analog arrays (FPAA)

Wireless

• Distributed processing network nodes
• Sensor networks

Power Technology

• High efficiency switching power sources
• Energy harvesting
• Efficiency improvement

Nonlinear Complex Solutions

• Classification, prediction, modeling, simulation, learning, and adaptive technology
• Technologies include fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, genetic programming, neural networks, swarm technology

For example:

• Pattern matching allow streams of sensors to be analyzed to control precise torque adjustments in metal extrusion and high speed servo based material 'cut of'
• Real-time eddy current analysis detects metal fracture patterns