Collective Experience
Our designers have succesfully executed projects for many leading high-tech companies.
The following list represents a cross-section of our achievements:
Network processing and embedded computing
- high-density PCI-X network content accelerator, dual Gigabit Ethernet, dual 7455
- network content accelerator evaluation system with interchangable
physical interface modules
- quad Motorola XPC7450/7455 processor-based ASIC evaluation platform
- Motorola MPC860-based VME64 motherboard with on-board PC-card, Industry-pack and DSP56301,
using VxWorks OS
- Motorola XPC8260 processor core
Advanced circuit-board layout
- design for extremely dense DFM
- microvia and blind/buried designs
- dual thickness edge connector boards for higher layer counts
- multi-chip modules, flip-chip and chip-on board
Data communications
- optical and copper Gigabit Ethernet
- high port-count 100Mbit ethernet switch cards based on Broadcom and Galileo chipsets
- SONET clock synchronization card based on the Semtech ACS8510 clock sync IC
- multi-port SONET/SDH OC-3 and OC-12 line cards
- CompactPCI OC-12 add/drop multiplexer card software driver development (Linux)
- Stratum 2/3/3E timing recovery module design
- 8-channel full rate DMT ADSL line card (DSLAM)
Analog/Digital
- switchmode power supply design for high-capacity battery charging
- PCI 4-channel wideband, low distortion Arbitrary Waveform Generator
for noise impairment testing of DSL. DC to 13.5MHz
- high-frequency PWM audio power amplifier with closed-loop feedback
and output reconstruction filters
- linear preamplifiers, power amplifiers and filter circuitry for
high-fidelity audio reproduction
- 4-channel PC data logging card for air traffic control radar and voice data
- instrumentation amplifier design for capturing airborne geophysical data
Signal processing
- DSP software development using FFTs and wavelet transforms for post-processing
of airborne geophysical data
- voice over frame relay DSP interface design
Line cards
- 16-cct international voice line card, CompactPCI compliant reference design based on the Nortel
telemodule hybrid
- MC145572-based 16-cct ISDN BRI line card; Motorola 68360 CPU processor core
- 4-channel COIC daughter card with programmable gain/attentuation and impedance matching
for naval shipboard communication
- multi-channel CO-grade DSLAM
- 4-channel SLIC daughter card
- 4-channel radio interface card
Architecture and specification development
- wireless feasibility study for ship-board wireless transmission of multimedia data
- investigation of pass-through OC-3 line timing aggregation
ASIC reference platforms and system integration:
- ATM-TDM SAR ASIC test/reference platform including Xilinx Virtex 1000,
Altera 10K50, Utopia level 1 bus interconnect, SONET, ZBT SRAM, T1/E1 LIU, 2 MT9042
Trunk synchronizer PLLs and all support circuitry
- 384kbit/s wireless MPEG audio transmission system based on a 2.4GHz GEC Plessey frequency-hopping
digital radio module
- mechanical and electrical test fixtures for various customer circuit boards
- complete data acquisition system design integrating high-speed A/D converters,
GPS receivers and video overlay for an airborne geophysics survey system
- several TDM cross-connect ASIC evaluation cards