Our services and expertise in Embedded applications include: • Full lifecycle: project management and implementation from specifications to production • Core research & development • Custom hardware and embedded software design and integration • C, assembler, real-time and networking applications • Component and design optimisation • Process Modelling using Matlab, Simulink and Acsl • Prototyping • Digital and analogue hardware design • Test equipment design, including dedicated hardware and software design for test jigs and PC software interfacing • QA, testing and validation including extensive experience with Microsoft Logo Testing Program and certification Our recent projects include: • Embedded software design for a high-resolution embedded spectrograph and Cassegrain computer. • Design & development of the HW and SW of a new network card module based on the PIC32 micro and has Ethernet, RS232, RS485, USB interfaces for one of our customers' DC-DC converter supervisory module. • SNMP agent implementation for PSUs using Lantronix XportPro microcontroller in a Linux environment. • Class B & class C embedded software analysis and certification. • Design & implementation of a 20W Class D amplifier with serial Dataflash stored speech messages. • Design & implementation of serial interface driving chain of LED display boards. • Porting real time kernel AVRX for ATMEL ATMega256 micros. • SNMP protocol development on PIC18 using Microchip Ethernet TCP/IP stack. • SMS push/poll and alert for remote node notification using Wavecom GSM module. • Remote dial-up communication between remode node and base station software. • Design and development of a battery/charger communication system over the power lines. • Took part in the development of the embedded software for several versions of the Windows Mobile-powered GeoExplorer Series handheld device in the GIS industry. • Development of a labelling system for QA sampling on a manufacturing site. • Development of software modules of various Warehouse Management Systems in C in a UNIX environment for automated materials handling projects in the food manufacturing and retail distribution sectors. • Development of software used to control Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) moving pallets around a food-manufacturing site for Coke in Galway (Ireland). • Hardware design and electronic diagrams for a redundant Ethernet board with 2 highly integrated AMD Pcnet-ISA II Ethernet controllers. • Design, development, test and validation of the embedded software for this redundant Ethernet board using a PSOS real-time OS. • Development of the embedded software for an ensemble multiplexer, able to multiplex audio, data and service information into an ETS 300 799 compliant stream for the DAB (digital Audio Broadcasting) industry.
