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Embedded Engineering Services are based on a disciplined approach with domain knowledge in several markets - Instrumentation, Audio, Test & Measurement, Scientific, Imaging, Medical, Transportation, and Industrial Automation:

Rigorous Product Development Cycle
- Systems Requirements Definition
- Software Design and Development
- Hardware Design and Development
- Mechanical Packaging
- System Integration and Test
- Agency Approvals (FCC / FDA / UL / CE)
- Transition to Manufacturing
- Low to Medium Volume Production
- Product Support and Maintenance

Core Value System Engineering
- Requirements Analysis
- Standard Systems Engineering Process
- Sensor Input Algorithm Design
- Photonics / Imaging / Lasers / Optics
- Control System Design
- Motion and Stepper Motor Control
- GUI and HMI Display / Keypad / PC Technology
- Communications System Design
- Digital Signal Processing
- System Test

Mechanical and Manufacturing
- Mechanical Concept Development
- Precision Opto-mechanical / Electro-mechanical
- Enclosure Design
- Agency Approvals
- Manufacturing Test Fixtures
- Transition To Manufacturing
- Low-volume Production

Project Management
- Task breakdown, time and cost estimates
- Periodic management reviews
- Frequent status reports to the customer
- Weekly resource allocation
- Management of cost and schedule

Helping customers get their products to market for over 10 years

Offering a combination of an Engineering Services Package and a family of Development Platforms

Save time and money with robust technology, enabling long product lifecycles

Processing Platforms, based on re-usable Hardware and Software building blocks, simplify the design of systems resulting in reduced schedules, NRE charges, and BOM costs - while accelerating your product's time-to-market.

The development of a processing platform with configurable I/O, with further customization as required, is the basis of a number of systems. This is an innovated approach that - if it is the right fit for your application - can bring your valuable products to market faster, cheaper, and better!

  • Saves you money: greatly reducing your NRE charges (compares favorably with off-shore development costs!)
  • Accelerates your time-to-market: shortening your schedule (receive prototypes in 2 months / ship product in 6 months!)
  • Minimizes your risk: using off-the-shelf and proven technologies
  • Beats your competition: offering scalable architecture and flexible customization

Technical Approach

The basis of the design is a flexible CPU platform, which measures 2.7" x 1.5" (40% smaller than a typical business card), ready for integration into numerous products for applications such as instrumentation, test & measurement, scientific, analytical, imaging, and industrial automation.

The fully functional CPU board features a TI 6711 DSP selected for its broad application-space for both general-purpose control and classic DSP capabilities - and is coupled with a Xilinx Spartan III FPGA that serves as an I/O co-processor. In addition, it comes complete with 8MB RAM and 2MB flash (or in a extended memory version with 32MB RAM and 16 MB flash).

Tailoring the core CPU engine requires the development of a simple I/O board. The I/O board provides the "last mile" of customization - providing an application specific power supply circuit, as well as the physical layer of all communications interfaces, and finally, the custom interfaces required for the application.

See Core CPU Engine at www.mitydsp.com and Engineering Services at www.criticallink.com.


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