Electronics

ITL’s leading-edge electronic design capabilities have been applied to many varied projects. In a constantly-evolving discipline we aim to apply state-of-the-art solutions to individual problems.  

                                                                   Hardware

Skills include:

  • Power, digital and analogue mixed signal circuit design
  • Design of low-end and high-end embedded microcontroller solutions
  • Precision sensor interfaces
  • Data acquisition and analysis
  • Motion, speed and temperature servo control systems
  • Photometric control and measurement sub-systems
  • State-of-the-art low signal level amplifiers
  • Analogue and digital filtering
  • Isolated interfaces for patient-connected medical applications
  • Serial data interfaces and multi-drop bus architectures
  • Advanced power management techniques for low-power, battery-operated portable devices
  • Power driver and interface circuits
  • Power supply conditioning and distribution modules
  • Battery charging and status monitoring
  • Design of, and interfacing to, custom and industry standard LCDs and touch-screens
  • Programmable logic design and simulation
  • Design and detail of mixed-signal wiring looms
  • Production test jig design
  • CAD design and layout of through-hole and surface mount, single and multi-layer PCBs

 

Firmware

Skills include:

  • Embedded high and low-end microcontroller applications
  • Comprehensive range of high-level and low-level languages using IDE tools
  • Highly integrated software and hardware solutions
  • Real-time multi-tasking control software
  • Structured object-orientated modular design
  • Application-specific hardware abstraction levels
  • Real-time data acquisition, filtering and analysis
  • Custom Client-orientated graphical user interfaces
  • Remote and networked distributed processing designs
  • High integrity, secure and safety-critical applications
  • Built-in self-diagnostic test functions
  • In-circuit and field-upgradeable software downloads
  • Full software verification and validation

 

Further services:

  • Design for manufacture
  • Component failure mode and stress analysis
  • Full design and manufacturing documentation package
  • Design for emerging lead-free technologies
  • Engineering solutions for component obsolescence
  • Trouble-shooting and design analysis services
  • EMC, safety and regulatory compliance testing of industrial and medical equipment