Electrical Engineering

Understanding and definition of critical customer requirements, timelines and deliverables, requirements traceability to system requirements, capture of specific usability requirements for User Interface (UI) components, preliminary component selection and technology approach, and consideration of external requirements such as regulatory (FDA, CE) and international electrical safety standards applicable to the type of device being designed.

Hardware specifications generation detailing expected design performance criteria, impact analysis of component selection on supply chain (long lead time parts, end-of-life considerations, analog and digital circuit design (including widely-used microcontrollers such as the STM8 and MAXIM 32660 (Cortex-M4) based devices), rapid Arduino prototyping of digital control circuits, and bus technologies including GPIO, SPI, I2C, async serial communication.

Motor control (stepper, servo and brushed/brushless motors), low power (battery-operated) wearable technologies, UI technologies (displays, keypads, switches, annunciators), sensor interface/integration including magnetic proximity and optical detection technologies, through hole, surface mount and multilayer printed circuit board topologies, high density PCB layout, circuit behavior prediction from design inputs including system, electrical, regulatory and safety requirements, and schematic capture and PCB layout using Altium Designer, our preferred PCB design tool, first article bring-up and evaluation and hardware integration with firmware, and programming/testing PCBAs.

A board manufacturer liaison to resolve issues, electrical safety testing (ETL) support to applicable standards in conjunction with a 3rd party test body, test reports to support regulatory submissions, component selection, tolerance analysis and component end-of-life review, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) based on the electrical design, risk analysis and risk management planning associated with electrical design tasks, hardware and firmware debugging and incremental design change to address specific areas where specifications are not met, data collection from operational prototypes, contract manufacturer liaison service for design transition to production.