We have decades of experience providing hardware, software/firmware, and mechanical design services. We are able to perform the initial steps required to define a product or build a prototype to prove (or disprove) key concepts. With rapid prototyping, we can accomplish your goals quickly and economically.
Preliminary Designs
This is the method we use to provide comprehensive and realistic bids for a project. We do a top level design of the hardware, software, and packaging. This identifies all the major components from which costs and schedules are created. The effort is cost effective. The Preliminary Design provides the following:
- Detailed block diagram of hardware design, showing all significant components
- A structured outline of all the software components in the system
- Explanatory text that describes the functionality of all components; Estimate that shows a cost matrix of each component purchased in a range of quantities
- Project schedule that includes all resources required to complete a prototype run, the cost, and identification of each resource.
Project Management
Our management experience, along with the knowledge of the expected (and many unexpected) events that can occur during project development, make us well qualified to manage your project.
Consulting
We can work with your team and provide consulting for software, hardware, mechanical, and test engineering. We use state of the art development tools. We can augment your development resources as needed.
Feasibility and Proof of Concept Study
We have the knowledge and resources to conduct a feasibility study for a proposed product, then produce a proof of concept model. Our studies result in improvements to the design and reduce risks.
Proof of Concept Models
There are several situations where it makes sense to implement a demonstration of a key concept before proceeding with the full scale product development. We have used demonstration boards that are available from various chip manufacturers, and successfully enhanced the board and software in order to demonstrate and prove a design concept.
Demonstration of key functionality is helpful to round up investors.
Proof that a concept works reduces the risk. On the other hand, proof that a concept does not work will avoid losing money.
Mechanical Design And Prototype
We have all the necessary tools to create your prototype including a 3D printer that can produce models of your product within hours. You can get the “look and feel” for your product.