Board Design:
Umar And Sons typically begins work by analyzing if your product concept is viable. After analyzing the project requirements and all input data, our technical experts may suggest several ways for designing and creating your gadget. During development, your product may go through several iterations and assessments to get the desired result. Depending on your demands, Umar And Sons engineering team may provide a wide range of hardware product design services.
From product specs through architecture design, schematics, printed circuit board layout, and production and assembly planning, our electronic designers handle it all. Professional industrial design tools like as Altium Designer, Cadence OrCad & Allegro, and Autodesk Eagle are used by our embedded hardware design team. We guarantee that all of our goods will meet or exceed international quality standards.
Stages of the Product Development Life-Cycle:
1. Mechanical Design:
Mechanical, electrical, and packaging design specialists are responsible for the system’s mechanical design. In the mechanical design phase of the embedded hardware design, achieving a single design that meets all of the overall criteria is critical. The work of developing the design might be centered on a single design by focusing on a single technique. In the early stages of design, the risk associated is managed through study and experimentation.
2. Electronics Design
Risk minimization is a priority in the early stages, just as it is in mechanical design. A trial hardware arrangement of the components on the circuit board to ensure they all fit properly is an example of risk minimization. The trial layout would determine the physical layout, validate that heat could be dispersed and that all components could fit using the selected packaging strategy, as well as ensure that other limitations were satisfied.
3. System Integration:
With plastic casings, the most important responsibilities are aligning the connections with the case and ensuring that the case’s closing mechanism works properly. Because the box size must be kept to a minimum, shorts between the boards and the case may occur. The gold unit, together with schematics, Gerber, and CAD drawings, is given to manufacturing at the completion of the integration phase.
4. Automated Test:
As part of embedded software and hardware development, an automated manufacturing load and test system are established. Two tests are required during the production process. The test is carried out to ensure that the electronics that make up the final gadget perform in the same way as the golden unit. After the electronic test and final assembly, the finished device is switched on and tested in the second phase of testing.
5. Project Management:
Hardware design services may be classified in a variety of ways. Client marketing is also engaged because it influences the physical device. The job might be shared between our resources and those of the client.
IoT Hardware Design Engagement:
Medical devices, industrial automation, home automation, energy management, and health and fitness are all being transformed by the Internet of Things (IoT). An end-to-end unique IoT hardware development process from idea to prototype, as well as manufacturing design, firmware development, order fulfilment, and quality control, are among our capabilities and expertise as an IoT hardware development company. Our clients may take advantage of our full-service IoT hardware development. Our experts can manage all issues related to integration into the existing technological stack for perfect functioning and your whole customized IoT solution.
- Chip-Set Selection:
For every hardware design, this is the most important parameter. Umar And Sons is uniquely positioned to build smaller, faster, more reliable, efficient, smarter, and cost-effective devices, with over 18 years of experience creating mission-critical and consumer-grade embedded hardware.
As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a big market in all industrial segments, the notion of focusing more on bespoke chip designs will fulfill the needs of each vertical, which is quickly becoming a market trend. All elements of EMI/EMC requirements, hardware form factor, operating environment requirements, and finally alternatives for direct sensor integration should be considered when selecting a chip-set.
- Design The Board:
Another crucial component in product success is electronic design, sometimes known as board design. Consider form size, durability, power efficiency, component placement and routing efficiency, and PCB material quality before beginning an IoT hardware board design. In order to construct a board, wearables are required.
Cloud-Based Integrations:
To develop an end-to-end solution, IoT cloud platforms integrate IoT device capabilities with cloud computing. They go under different names, such as the Cloud Service Internet of Things (IoT) platform. Onboard analytics chipsets are now available, allowing complicated analytical algorithms to be executed on the fly while only sending relevant data to the cloud.
- Single board and multi-board
- Multi-core and Multi-Processor
- Small Form Factor
- Flex-Rigid and Flexible PCBs Design
- Low Power and Wearable Design
- Design Validation and Compliance
- Reference Platform Development
- High-Speed Designs
- RF Antenna
- HDI PCB Design
Expertise:
SoC:
- i.MX6x, i.MX6UL, i.MX6 POP, Vybrid, MPC864x, i.MX27, i.MX257, i.MX258, i.MX233, i.MX50, i.MX51,i.MX53, PowerPC 860, 8260, 750/755 from Freescale/NXP
- Keystone II, DM355/64xx, DSP TMS320C6455, OMAP 3530, AM437x, DM8168, CC2541, OMAP 850 from TI
Interfaces:
- Connectivity: USB, Ethernet, CAN, Bluetooth, WiFi, PCIe
- Serial: UART, SPI, I2C
- Multimedia: Audio, Video, Camera
- Storage: SSD, SATA, Flash, SDRAM, SD/MMC
- UI: LCD, LVDS, HDMI, DVI, Keypad
- GPIO, A/D, D/A, and analog
Schematics and PCB CAD Tools:
- Altium Designer
- Cadence OrCad & Allegro
- Autodesk Eagle
- Protel Design
Signal Integrity and Gerber data review Tool:
- Hyperlynx 6.0 or above
- GC Prevue
