PCB Design (Incl. Safety Critical)

We offer PCB design consulting both in house and as an external contractor. We have over 10 years PCB design experience across a broad range of industries.

Please Contact Us if you need a PCB designed.

PCB Technology

• PCB design for standard or safety critical applications, single layer up to 16 layers;
• Schematic capture in Altium Designer
• PCB Layout in Altium Designer, experience in High Power, High Speed and mixed signal.
• 3D Modelling in Autodesk Inventor

Project Experience

We have experience covering the following project ranges:

• TFT/LCD display applications for commercial advertising and critical HMI’s;
• Length, Angle, Pressure, Acceleration, Angle, Pitch / Roll, Position and Gesture control;
• Power supplies, switching including Phase angle and PFC;
• Stepper, Servo and BLDC motor control;
• Wireless including BT/BTLE, 802.15.4, 802.11, Low Frequency;
• Networking systems including 802.3 (10/100/1G) and IEEE1588;
• Vision systems including, PAL Cameras, GigE, LVDS Digital, Surround Vision, etc.

See our Printed Circuit Board design examples.

Components

We have in house libraries of over 1000 standard components (schematic symbols, PCB footprints and Autodesk Inventor 3D models) for use in safety critical and non critical applications: Our standard component ranges cover:

• 30+ Different MCU’s consisting of Microchip PIC18, dsPIC33, PIC32’s, TI Safety CPU’s, TI Sitara, TI MSP432, etc;
• 20+ Xilinx and Altera CPLD’s and Xilinx FPGA’s including Virtex-4, Virtex-5, Spartan-6, Artix-7;
• 100+ sensor interfaces including pressure, temperature, acceleration, length, angle, position, IR;
• 10+ wireless modules including BT/BTLE, 802.15.4;
• Large range of connectors from FMC, High speed serial interfaces, FPC, Molex and TE sealed connectors for harsh environments, Circular connectors for industrial networking;

Rapid Prototyping

We offer a rapid prototyping service for customers wishing to rapidly validate ideas. We use mixtures of existing development boards, pod’s, etc. combined with custom PCB’s including in-house milled and etched prototypes.

We also offer in house assembly services, manufactured on our own Pick and Place robot;

Verification and Validation

We offer PCB verification and validation as an extension to existing projects, or as a third party consultant. Our V & V services include:

• Single and dual channel designs verification to meet required hardware safety specifications;
• Simulation and 3D modelling of complete assemblies or individual components/modules (electrical, electronic, mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic);
• Printed Circuit Board (PCB) bring up including testing as per system integration test plans and FMEDA;
• Verification of component de-rating via stress testing with in-house facilities to -20° and +150°;
• Safety case documentation, including hardware safety life cycle documentation, hardware specification, and reports with trace-ability;

Additional Examples