Tag: Electronics Design

  • Successful Endeavours – Research Service Provider

    A simpler way to start R&D If your product development has reached a technical question that requires new knowledge to answer, you may not need to commit immediately to a large development program. Successful Endeavours is now a registered Research Service Provider (RSP) under the Australian Government’s Research and Development…

  • I Nearly Retired

    Manufacturing Profits you can retire on I was talking with one of our past clients a little while ago. They told me they had a problem. They said, “Ray, I nearly retired“! So I asked them what that meant. And they explained.   We had developed a product for them…

  • Electronics Design: PCB Layout

    PCB Layout After the Schematic Capture component of the Electronics Design  is complete, the logical connections for the electronics components have been determined. If the Electronics CAD package also supports it, you can add rules to guide the Printed Circuit Board Layout, also abbreviated to PCB Layout which we will…

  • Fine Pitch PCB

    Fine Pitch Printed Circuit Board This example is from a project coming to the end of the Proof of Concept phase. So we have done the Electronics Design and also completed the PCB Layout. I can’t tell you what it does, but you don’t really need to know in order…

  • Electronics Design: Component Selection

    Component Selection We have worked our way through Requirements Capture and Technology Selection. After doing some initial design work and deciding on how the circuit will work, you have to find components that you can buy on a reasonable lead time and at a reasonable price. This depends a lot…

  • Electronics Design: Technology Selection

    Technology Selection Before we look at how to choose a Technology, what does Technology mean? In very general terms, Technology is understanding how stuff works and how to get it to do what you want. There is lots of different stuff available. In the case of Electronics Design this stuff…

  • Electronics Design: Requirements Capture

    Requirements Capture Product Development is the core process your use when you have a great idea for a new product, or an improved version of an existing one. The very first step is to define what it is meant to do.   This first step is known as Requirements Capture.…

  • Electronics Design: Process

    Electronics Design The Electronics Design Process involves a number of steps. Unless what you are doing is a minor tweak to an existing product, you will use these steps. Over the next few weeks I will unpack what is involved in each step but this post is just going to…

  • Electronics News Future Awards 2012

    Electronics News Future Awards 2012 Each year in Australia Electronics News gives out seven awards for Electronics Design. We are very excited to announce that we received two of these seven awards at the Electronics News Future Awards 2012. We are still waiting on official pictures from the awards ceremony…

  • NASA: Congratulations on Curiosity Landing

    Curiosity Landing We were an excited bunch of Engineers as we watched the live feed from NASA of the landing of Curiosity on the surface of Mars. Given the telemetry delay of 15 minutes, the real landing had already happened. Here we were looking back in time as we were…