Key Services

• Electronics design. Circuit capture and PCB layout. Prototype and test.
• Software design for embedding in electronic devices.
• High level application software design.
• Connecting electronic devices to networks or the internet.
• EMC testing for the CE mark, to meet regulatory requirements for product sale.
• Project management, for entire product development cycles.
• In-house surface mount production capability, including component sourcing.

Technical Capabilities
Electronics design

• Analogue, Digital, Programmable Logic Devices, FPGA, Microprocessor and Microcontroller( mostly using ARM9, ARM7 and PIC )
• In-house CAD capture of circuit diagrams
• In-house PCB layout (Using Cadence Allegro and Orcad design tools)

Programming

• Levels: Applications, Device drivers, Embedded real time systems
• Languages: C, C++, Microsoft Windows (Visual C++, C#), Assembler, Visual Basic
• Databases: SQL Server, Microsoft Access
• Operating systems: DOS/Windows, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP

Test and Analysis

• Production fault analysis
• EMC testing for the CE mark

Construction

• Prototyping, including test
• PCB design
• In-house surface mount assembly line
• Production management

Surface mount assembly capability

• Ultraprint 200 automatic solder paste printer
• Europlacer EP600 pick and place machine
• Vitronix 10 zone forced air convection oven

The solder paste printer is an automatic printer with good registration and repeatability through a run.

The Europlacer is not a particularly quick machine (6000 components per hour), but it is very versatile - placing fine pitch QFPs (0.5mm), BGAs, and QFNs. It has a large feeder capacity with the ability to set up feeder trolleys off-line.

The Vitronix 10 zone oven is over 5 metres long giving us the ability to finely control the profile to suit lead free solder on all component types, including BGA.