HARDWARE DESIGN

We have extensive expertise high complexity, high speed hardware system and board designs. This includes designs for harsh environment, industrial and defense applications. We use the latest tools to produce multi-layer printed circuit boards (PCB) for prototypes and production units with expertise with ARM and FPGA architectures as well as DSP's and Motor controls.

HARDWARE DESIGN

The hardware design is a critical part of any system design. Achieving an optimal and right hardware design is important; and that’s part of what we do best at Acevin.

Our team of engineers at Acevin has extensive expertise and sufficient years of experience in low to high complexity, high speed hardware system and board designs. This includes designs for harsh environment, industrial and defense applications. Our engineers have vast experience in all aspects of good hardware design, including High speed designs, Timing analysis, Signal Integrity / Power Integrity / Thermal / EMI-EMC analysis to achieve “first time right” designs. Acevin is well versed with the requirements of EMI/EMC, safety, DFM/ DFT / DFA and ensure success of the product when it goes in the “real world” environment.

Some design highlights:

High Speed hardware designs
2 to 16 layer board designs with impedance control
PCIe, DDR3 / DDR4 based boards
Serial Interface: up to 12.5Gbps
EMI, EMC, ESD compliant designs
Considerations for DFM/DFT/DFA
Designs for harsh environment, Intrinsic Safety requirements, industrial and defense applications

Our experience in hardware designs

Architecture / System Designs
Circuit Design

High Speed Analog / Digital
Mixed Signal
RF circuit
Fiber Optics

Processors
- Various families of 8/16/32/64 bit processors, microcontrollers, DSPs, SOCs
Mixed Signal Designs
- Analog / Digital / Mixed signal circuit designs
Custom and Standard Backplane / Rack Designs
Board Designs
- Multilayer boards: 2 layers to 16 layers
- PCIe, DDR3 / DDR4 based boards
- CPU / Microcontroller boards
- Wireless boards for RF, GPRS/LTE, Bluetooth, WiFi, Zigbee, LoRa etc.
- Timing / Control / Synchronization / Clock cards
- Switch / Cross-connect cards
- High speed line cards
- Interface boards, IO Panels, Power Supply cards
- Serial Interface: up to 12.5Gbps
- Evaluation / Reference boards

In addition to hardware designs, we can provide cost effective prototyping services to its clients. We help our clients with quick prototyping and can also help them get their products manufactured.

RF WIRELESS

We have expertise designing various RF and wireless solutions and can assist our clients in selecting the right technology for their applications. We design multiple radio systems including Cellular, LTE, WiFi, Bluetooth, GPS, Zigbee, LoRa, Sigfox, RFID, NFC and custom radios including Software Defined Radios (SDR). We provide antenna design & simulation and pre-certification work for FCC standards.

EMBEDDED FIRMWARE

From creating specifications, to designing firmware architecture, to integrating & testing on custom hardware, our team ensures quality development. We have expertise including bare metal to RTOS, C/C++, Linux, Android and iOS, BSPs, APIs, and wireless protocols. We specialize in industrial protocols like CAN, Modbus, and standard protocols like Ethernet, TCP/IP, USB, RS485, RS422, RS232, UART.

FPGA DESIGN

Our skilled FPGA design team brings broad FPGA development expertise in the areas of signal processing, protocol implementation, high speed memory interfaces, complex algorithm implementation, nuclear instrumentation, IP core development. We help our clients with custom FPGA board designs and also to integrate our FPGA designs with existing hardware.

PCB SIMULATION ANALYSIS & TESTING

We assist our clients with PCB analysis and simulation including environmental (shake & bake), EMI radiation, and thermal analysis. We do extensive work in signal integrity and power integrity. We can get your solution pre-certified for safety (UL, CE) and radiation (FCC, PTCRB) and assist in formal certifications. We also build custom test set-ups for end of line production tests.

PCB LAYOUT

Our highly skilled team of engineers have expertise for multilayer, high complexity, highly dense PCB designs. We have extensive experience in a wide variety of technologies including high speed designs, RF, DDR3/DDR4 memories, power supplies as well as right practices for DFM, EMI, SI and thermal analysis.

PCB LAYOUT

At Acevin, we have highly skilled and experienced design engineers to cater to your PCB Layout Design services. We act as clients’ support team to meet critical schedules and design requirements.

Our emphasis on “first time right designs” eliminates the need for multiple iterations in most cases, substantially reducing project cost. Client can use our services either for an end-to-end PCB Layout Design services or for working in collaboration with their team.

Capabilities

Complex, High Speed, High density PCB Design
Multi layer designs up to 16 layer PCB
Differential signal routing, matched length routing, bus routing
Impedance controlled Designs
Up to 4mils/4mils routing
Fine pitch BGA (0.5mm)
High pin count BGA (1156 pins)
Pre and Post Layout Signal integrity Analysis
Standards (IPC, MIL etc.) compliant designs
DFM, DFT, DFA
Constraints driven designs
Layer stack design/recommendation
Auto / Manual Routing
Schematic entry
Parts / Library Creation
PCB Fabrication
PCB Assembly
Support for quick prototyping
Re-Engineering
Hardware Design support services

Application Areas

Industrial
Defense
Medical
Telecom
Wireless
Networking
Power Systems
Consumer

Sample List of Types of PCBs Designed

Analog, Digital, Mixed-signal boards
Video Processing boards
RF boards
PCIe / CPU / Memory boards (DDR3, DDR4)
FPGA boards
ASIC Test Board
IO / Line cards
Backplanes / Motherboards
Motor Drive boards
SMPS, Power boards
Evaluation boards
SBCs

PCB Prototypes and Production Builds

Based on anticipated production volumes, we can design boards to help lower total cost
Acevin experience enables us to better understand the issues related to PCBs and provide effective PCB Layout designs
Due to our emphasis on “first time right designs”, boards designed by us do not usually need to go for multiple iterations before getting finalized.
We have long-standing relationships with reputed PCB Fabrication & Assembly houses and component vendors. This enables us to support our clients for quick prototyping and manufacturing requirements.
Acevin can manage the procurement of parts, assembly, and testing of systems/boards from small prototype runs, to units in the thousands, or larger volumes. We can work with our clients to help find a suitable large-scale contract manufacturer, or transfer the design and files to the CM of its choice.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILE APPS

In addition to developing software applications, we can develop industrial man-machine interfaces (MMI) and graphical user interfaces (GUI). We regularly build mobile applications on iOS and Android for connectivity to custom solutions. We can get your data from the device to the cloud so it can be analyzed for predictive analytics and performance dashboards.

SUSTAINING ENGINEERING

Our team has the experience to help our clients update and re-engineer their existing products which have challenges due to component obsolescence, technology obsolescence, product cost, size, power consumption or any other manufacturing issue. We analyze latest components, operating systems, drivers and legacy code, to make your updated product faster, better & less costly.

RUGGED ENCLOSURES

We work with clients that need rugged enclosures for their outdoor and hostile environments including oil and gas, marine and unmanned equipment. If you require weatherproof (IP65-IP67), NEMA or Intrinsically Safe enclosures, our team can help select an off the shelf enclosure or design a custom solution for your application.