Electronics & microelectronics
From circuit to system: boards, firmware and test benches.
Digital, analogue and RF boards, prototype or series. Embedded software, test benches, industrialisation and obsolescence. And when needed, we go all the way down to the integrated circuit.
What we hear in a first meeting
- “The main component on our board is reaching end-of-life next year.”
- “We have a prototype that works on the bench, but not yet a product.”
- “Our subcontractor no longer does small batches.”
What we do, in practice
Electronic design
Schematics, component selection, PCB routing, EMC constraints considered from the outset.
Prototyping
First boards, tuning, measurement benches.
Firmware
Embedded code on microcontrollers, drivers, communication protocols.
Industrialisation
Manufacturing file, production tests, support for the subcontractor.
Component obsolescence
Search for equivalents, partial redesign, requalification.
Technical expertise
Boards, embedded software and test
Electronic boards and systems
Small batches (prototypes, demonstrators) or larger series.
- —Architectures built around MCUs, MPUs, DSPs, FPGAs or ASICs
- —Prototyping boards to validate an ASIC on FPGA
- —Analogue and RF boards, antennas integrated or not into the PCB
- —Radio modules: Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Zigbee, UWB, LoRa, ISM, cellular
- —Power boards and sensor interfaces
- —Multilayer routing, signal integrity, EMC from the schematic stage
Embedded software and HMI
- —Multi-target and multitasking architectures, real-time OS selection
- —Firmware, drivers, bootloaders on ARM, RISC-V targets…
- —Protocol layers: TCP/IP, USB, CAN, Modbus, PCIe
- —Linux, Windows and Android drivers
- —Control software and HMI in C, C++, LabVIEW
- —Signal processing, algorithms on DSP
Test benches and measurements
To characterise a circuit, test a board in production or run a measurement campaign.
- —Data acquisition and processing benches
- —Characterisation benches under LabVIEW, TestStand, C++
- —Test programs in Python, Tcl
- —Production and regression tests
Industrialisation and lifecycle
- —Milestones prototype → validation → pre-series (EVT, DVT, PVT)
- —Design for manufacturing and test (DFM, DFT)
- —EMC pre-qualification before lab testing
- —Manufacturing file, follow-up with the EMS subcontractor
- —Obsolescence: equivalents, redesign, requalification
Sectors of application
TelecommunicationsIndustryHealthcareTransportConnected devicesUse cases
Situations we know how to handle
Redesign of a board with an end-of-life component
Microcontroller replacement, firmware porting, regression tests on the bench.
Moving from prototype to small series
Design review, testability, complete manufacturing file.
Sensor interface board
Acquisition, signal conditioning, link to a PLC or an IoT gateway.
Technologies and ecosystem
- Altium
- KiCad
- Mentor PADS
- STM32
- ESP32
- ARM Cortex
- DSP
- FPGA
- C / C++
- FreeRTOS
- Zephyr
- Embedded Linux
- LabVIEW
- TestStand
- Python
- CAN
- Modbus
- RS-485
- BLE
- Wi-Fi
- Zigbee
- LoRa
Indicative list. No official partnership is implied.
Way of working
- Feasibility study
- A few days to validate the approach and the budget.
- Fixed-price project
- From specification to validated prototype.
- Series follow-up
- Production support and change management.
Can you take over a board designed by someone else?
Yes, based on the design files or, failing that, on a physical board.
Do you manufacture the boards?
Manufacturing is handled by subcontractors; we prepare the file and follow production.
An electronics project to study?
Send us the context, even incomplete. We'll come back with specific questions.
Describe your situation
No specification document needed. A few lines are enough for us to know whether we can help.