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Creating products that connect to your lifestyle. The hidden magic is Electronic Design.
Electronic Design
Each design presents its unique challenges and conflicting requirements. The Hardware Architecture shows how these conflicts can be mitigated, the technology that will be used and how the various parts will work together to meet the customer’s requirements.
Building up block diagrams and system integration diagrams allows the design team to understand the peripheral interfaces between the devices. From these diagrams the most appropriate silicon-based devices can be selected. The interface specifications can be built up from these diagrams, which allow the software team to understand the system and to start development of the firmware.
The Architecture Defines The System
System Architecture
System Architecture
The architecture defines the system
Each design presents its unique challenges and conflicting requirements. The Hardware Architecture shows how these conflicts can be mitigated, the technology that will be used and how the various parts will work together to meet the customer’s requirements.
Building up block diagrams and system integration diagrams allows the design team to understand the peripheral interfaces between the devices. From these diagrams the most appropriate silicon-based devices can be selected. The interface specifications can be built up from these diagrams, which allow the software team to understand the system and to start development of the firmware.
Conficio possesses a wide range of skills covering many aspects of analogue, digital and power engineering.
These include:
Embedded systems using the full range of available on chip peripherals
Analogue/sensor interface design
High speed digital design
Linear and switch-mode power supply design
Motor controls
Audio-visual alarms
Safety monitoring
Metrological instruments
Low power RF equipment
DSP products
Simulation
FMEA
Electronics is a requirement in
many of today’s products
Electronic Design
Electronic Design
Electronics is a requirement in many of today’s products
Conficio possesses a wide range of skills covering many aspects of analogue, digital and power engineering.
These include:
Embedded systems using the full range of available on chip peripherals
Analogue/sensor interface design
High speed digital design
Linear and switch-mode power supply design
Motor controls
Audio-visual alarms
Safety monitoring
Metrological instruments
Low power RF equipment
DSP products
Simulation
FMEA
Our Electronics Engineers work with the other members of the team to ensure the best possible design integration for your product. Our wide experience and knowledge base allows us to put together the best team to deliver a fully functioning design that fulfils your exact requirements using cutting edge and innovative components and design.
Understanding the manufacturing process allows us to design PCBs that are not only fit for purpose, but manufacturable in a cost effective and efficient way. By involving our suppliers early in the design stages, an understanding between the final manufacturers and the designers can be built up. This improves their ability to test and to understand our design and increases our clients’ confidence.
How can we make it Better,
Faster, Smaller, Cheaper...?
Hardware Design Services
Hardware
How can we make it Better, Faster, Smaller, Cheaper...?
Our Electronics Engineers work with the other members of the team to ensure the best possible design integration for your product. Our wide experience and knowledge base allows us to put together the best team to deliver a fully functioning design that fulfils your exact requirements using cutting edge and innovative components and design.
Understanding the manufacturing process allows us to design PCBs that are not only fit for purpose, but manufacturable in a cost effective and efficient way. By involving our suppliers early in the design stages, an understanding between the final manufacturers and the designers can be built up. This improves their ability to test and to understand our design and increases our clients’ confidence
The first stage in the development of a PCB design is to capture the schematic for the circuit. Circuits are usually designed using a schematic capture tool as part of a PCB design suite. In addition to purely performing the schematic capture, simulations of the circuit may be undertaken at this stage.
For applications such as RF, circuit design simulation will enable the final circuit to be optimised, reducing the need to build prototypes. The capture tool often provides crucial information for documents to be produced such as a bill of materials.
Circuit design implementation
Schematic Capture
Schematic Capture
Circuit design implementation
The first stage in the development of a PCB design is to capture the schematic for the circuit. Circuits are usually designed using a schematic capture tool as part of a PCB design suite. In addition to purely performing the schematic capture, simulations of the circuit may be undertaken at this stage.
For applications such as RF, circuit design simulation will enable the final circuit to be optimised, reducing the need to build prototypes. The capture tool often provides crucial information for documents to be produced such as a bill of materials.
PCB design programmes may be very complicated and require precise setting up to allow optimal layout and routing to be achieved. Using a suitable CAD package provides all the necessary capability to enable the layout of boards with thousands of components, nodes and tracks to be designed and laid out. Sometimes the use of software tools is required to enable the routing to be completed successfully.
PCB layout must be followed by a rigorous checking process to ensure that all the requirements are met, and the best PCB performance is obtained.
Making layout art
PCB Layout
PCB Layout
Making layout art
PCB design programmes may be very complicated and require precise setting up to allow optimal layout and routing to be achieved. Using a suitable CAD package provides all the necessary capability to enable the layout of boards with thousands of components, nodes and tracks to be designed and laid out. Sometimes the use of software tools is required to enable the routing to be completed successfully.
PCB layout must be followed by a rigorous checking process to ensure that all the requirements are met, and the best PCB performance is obtained.
We use simulation tools such as SPICE to verify selected parts of a design. Methods such as Monte Carlo analysis can help us understand how a design might behave in production, allowing us to understand our design and refine it if needed before more investment is required for production boards or software.
Other mathematical modelling and analysis can be developed and used to optimise battery life and power dissipation. These techniques help to reduce risk and reduce development time.
Measure twice, cut once…
Use time and other resources wisely
Hardware Design Analysis
Analysis
Measure twice, cut once…
Use time and other resources wisely
We use simulation tools such as SPICE to verify selected parts of a design. Methods such as Monte Carlo analysis can help us understand how a design might behave in production, allowing us to understand our design and refine it if needed before more investment is required for production boards or software.
Other mathematical modelling and analysis can be developed and used to optimise battery life and power dissipation. These techniques help to reduce risk and reduce development time. the development of a PCB design is to capture the schematic for the circuit. Circuits are usually designed using a schematic capture tool as part of a PCB design suite. In addition to purely performing the schematic capture, simulations of the circuit may be undertaken at this stage.
Whether it’s prototype boards or full-scale manufacturing for hundreds of thousands of units, Conficio can provide. Our Electronic Engineers work with manufacturers and suppliers on a daily basis, sourcing correct components, boards or costs reductions. Providing fast turnaround boards to test your prototype or provide proof of concept can be done easily and efficiently.
Our Engineers can provide ongoing support throughout the manufacturing process to test, analyse and refine designs so they are perfect for market launch and design implementation.
Manufacturing support
Electronic Manufacturing
Electronic Manufacturing
Contract manufacturing
Whether it’s prototype boards or full-scale manufacturing for hundreds of thousands of units, Conficio can provide. Our Electronic Engineers work with manufacturers and suppliers on a daily basis, sourcing correct components, boards or costs reductions. Providing fast turnaround boards to test your prototype or provide proof of concept can be done easily and efficiently.
Our Engineers can provide ongoing support throughout the manufacturing process to test, analyse and refine designs so they are perfect for market launch and design implementation.
