Design
Boards that survive contact with manufacturing.
Schematic capture, PCB layout, firmware and design-for-manufacture — taken from a rough requirement to a release-ready package.
Who this is for
- Startups turning a proven concept into a manufacturable product
- OEMs who need overflow engineering capacity without hiring
- Teams inheriting a design that never made it cleanly to production
What you get
Schematic and annotated block diagram
PCB layout with stack-up and impedance notes
Bill of materials with sourcing alternates called out
Fabrication and assembly package (Gerbers, drill, pick-and-place)
Firmware and board bring-up scripts
Design review notes and known-issue log
How it runs
What actually happens, in order.
- 01
Requirements review
We pin down what the board actually has to do — power budget, interfaces, environment, certification target, cost ceiling — before anything is drawn.
- 02
Architecture and part selection
Block diagram and shortlist of critical parts. Because we source as well as design, availability and lead time are part of the selection, not an afterthought.
- 03
Schematic and layout
Schematic capture, then layout with attention to power integrity, thermal paths and EMC. You get review checkpoints, not a black box.
- 04
Firmware and bring-up
Drivers, bootloader and application firmware, plus the bring-up scripts we use to prove each rail and interface on first silicon.
- 05
Release package
A complete, self-contained handover: everything a fab, an assembler, or your own team needs to build the board without calling us.
Capabilities
The detail, if you want it.
Hardware
- Multi-layer PCB layout
- Mixed-signal design
- Switching and linear power supplies
- Motor drive and control
- RF and wireless integration
- Flex and rigid-flex
- High-speed digital routing
- Thermal and EMC design
Firmware & embedded
- Bare-metal and RTOS firmware
- Embedded Linux and board support
- Device drivers
- Bootloaders and OTA update
- BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa and cellular stacks
- Sensor fusion and signal processing
Related work
Medical Devices
A diagnostic front end with a noise floor problem
The measurement worked on the bench and failed in the enclosure.
Read→Industrial & IoT
A controller built around a part that no longer exists
Twelve years in production, and the core controller went end-of-life.
Read→Robotics & Automation
A robot arm whose encoder lied under load
Position was accurate at rest and drifted the moment the motor moved.
Read→Can you pick up a design someone else started?
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do. We start with a design review so both sides understand what is salvageable and what needs rework, then quote from there. You get an honest assessment even if the answer is that a restart is cheaper.
Who owns the design when the project ends?
You do. All schematics, layouts, source files and firmware are yours on final payment, in editable source form — not just exported PDFs and binaries.
Do you design for a specific fab or assembler?
No. The release package is vendor-neutral so you can build it anywhere. If you would like us to handle the build as well, we can, but you are never locked in.
Which EDA tools do you work in?
We work in the mainstream tools and match whatever your team already uses, so the files stay editable in-house after handover. Tell us your toolchain and we will confirm before we start.