Our Hardware Design Process
We specialize in helping OEMs transform custom control systems into manufacturable, automation-ready embedded products. Our process accelerates time to market while reducing handoff complexity between electrical, mechanical, and firmware engineering teams.
Schematics
Our embedded hardware design services begin with clearly outlining the circuitry, connections, and microcontrollers essential for your project in easy-to-understand schematics. We select parts that not only meet your current requirements but also support scaling into physical prototypes, allowing for future substitution, adaptation, and performance improvements in your embedded systems engineering.
PCB Design and Layout
Our specialized PCB design and layout services ensure the precise placement and routing of all electronic components, circuitry, and logic elements on your printed circuit board, based on the specifications defined during the schematic phase of your hardware design. We prioritize:
- Optimal signal integrity for reliable performance in your embedded systems engineering.
- Efficient heat dissipation for long-term stability.
- Design for Manufacturing (DFM) to streamline the PCB design and manufacturing process.
- Mastery of leading Electronic Design Software.
- Design for high-level synthesis.
- Utilization of mathematical models and CAD software simulation for analysis and verification.
- Support for prototype manufacturing.
- Strict compliance with electromagnetic interference (EMI) and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) application-specific standards for your industrial manufacturing needs.
Embedded Software and Firmware
Our embedded systems engineering team provides comprehensive firmware development services, creating optimized and reliable software for your industrial applications. We excel in delivering solutions that meet critical time constraints and performance requirements, including:
- Real-time Operating Systems (RTOS) focused firmware for responsive and efficient operation.
- Development for semi-custom Digital Signal Processors, enabling advanced data processing and control.
- Support for custom firmware language requirements, ensuring flexibility for your specific needs.
- Creation of proof-of-concept programming libraries for rapid prototyping and development.
- Solutions for projects demanding bounded interrupt latency and strict priority rules.
Our expertise extends to developing custom, proprietary, or open-source firmware with features such as:
- Elegant device broadcast syncing for flawless communication.
- Situational layer-based processing standards for rugged performance in various environments.
- Comprehensive input/output control and synchronization of multiple network devices.
- Advanced capabilities including protocol reverse engineering and full protocol stack integration, supporting multiple protocols in one solution.
Enclosure Design Services
Our hardware design services go beyond the internal electronics to include the physical enclosure of your product. We know that the enclosure is crucial for both aesthetics and protecting the sensitive embedded systems engineering within. Our design process carefully merges visual appeal with critical functional requirements, considering:
- Ease of assembly during the PCB design and manufacturing phase, ensuring efficient production.
- Cost-effectiveness in material selection and manufacturing processes.
- Maximum protection for variable hardware needs, safeguarding your embedded systems from environmental factors.
- User-friendly design, ensuring intuitive interaction and access.
Our hardware design services ensure your product not only performs reliably but also presents a professional and user-centric exterior.
Hardware Design Solutions
Our hardware design services provide a wide range of solutions to elevate your application-specific industrial hardware. We use our expertise in embedded systems engineering and PCB design and layout services to integrate the following key components and technologies into your products:
- Implementing intelligent systems to aid operation and improve user experience.
- Integrating various sensor technologies for data acquisition and environmental awareness within your embedded systems.
- Designing intuitive human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for easier user interaction and control.
- Developing precise motion control systems for automated processes and machinery.
- Enabling IoT connectivity and data exchange for remote monitoring and control of your industrial manufacturing devices.
- Designing hardware solutions for efficient tracking, management, and optimization of logistical processes.
- Implementing hardware and firmware development for effective presentation and analysis of critical data.
- Integrating safety mechanisms and compliance features into your hardware design.
- Developing systems that easily communicate and integrate with other devices and networks.
Let’s take your application-specific industrial hardware to the next level with our agnostic protocol approach and complete hardware design services.
Hardware Design Solutions
Our hardware design services provide a wide range of solutions to elevate your application-specific industrial hardware. We use our expertise in embedded systems engineering and PCB design and layout services to integrate the following key components and technologies into your products:
Let’s take your application-specific industrial hardware to the next level with our agnostic protocol approach and complete hardware design services.
Industries
DEVELOP partners with OEMs to build the embedded foundations of modern industrial products. Whether it’s a smart controller, electro-hydraulic module, or motion system interface, we help you develop scalable, manufacturable hardware that powers advanced automation and controls. From PCB to firmware to final product, we support your journey to market under one vertically integrated roof.
Our Single Source Guarantee for Hardware Design
Choose DEVELOP LLC for growth-focused and efficient hardware design services, all under one roof. Our single-source guarantee minimizes miscommunication and accelerates your project lifecycle.
Communication in Hardware Design
The most expensive mistakes in hardware design happen due to miscommunication. We enhance the entire design process, from schematic design to PCB layout, ensuring clear and direct communication.
- Schematic design to layout handled for you.
- Prototyping to manufacturing managed internally.
- Vertical communication and swift decision-making.
- Accelerated time to market for your embedded systems engineering projects.
- Designated project owners and direct contact with hardware design and electrical engineering experts throughout.
- We reduce the risks of miscommunication inherent in working with multiple third-party teams.
Integrated Engineering Expertise
Achieve faster results for your hardware design with our vertically integrated team of engineers and technicians, covering electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and embedded systems engineering.
- Close collaboration between hardware design engineers, industrial designers, and manufacturing specialists.
- Comprehensive perspective backed by our vertically integrated staff.
- Optimal performance, power consumption, thermal management, and other critical parameters achieved through shared integration experience in embedded systems.
Enhanced Accountability
Any energy not directed toward the purposeful improvement of your hardware design is wasted time, effort, and money. Our single-source approach ensures clear accountability.
- Prevent costly rework, design flaws, or delays in the hardware design phase.
- Swift flaw detection throughout the PCB design and layout services process.
- Real-time error resolution.
- Adherence to uniform standards in PCB design and manufacturing.
IP Protection
Coordinating multiple parties for your hardware design can create confusion and risk for your intellectual property. Our single-source model centralizes protection.
- Eliminate the costs of working with multiple third parties.
- Reduce complexities of multiple supply chains and lead times for PCB design and manufacturing.
- Potentially achieve a faster product-to-market speed.
- Direct agency to act with minimal correction, interoperability testing, and continuous improvement of your hardware design.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Hardware Design Services
DEVELOP provides hardware design services that cover the complete process of developing electronic hardware, from initial concept and schematic design to PCB design and layout services, component selection, and preparation for PCB design and manufacturing.
PCB design and layout services involve the precise placement and routing of electronic components on a printed circuit board, ensuring optimal signal integrity, power distribution, and Design for Manufacturing (DFM) for efficient production.
Embedded systems engineering focuses on the design, development, and integration of the embedded hardware with software and firmware development that control specific functions within electronic products and industrial applications.
Firmware development is the creation of low-level software that directly controls the embedded hardware of a device. It’s crucial for initializing the hardware, managing resources, and enabling the higher-level embedded software to function correctly.
Embedded systems engineering allows for the creation of intelligent and customized electronic products with specific functionalities, leading to increased efficiency, automation, enhanced performance, and optimized resource utilization in your industrial manufacturing applications.
Yes, our firmware development team has extensive experience creating custom firmware solutions tailored to your specific embedded hardware requirements, ensuring optimal performance and easier integration with your overall system.