Specific Expertise
Embedded
Linux
FPGAs
Microchip
PIC Family
USB
A networked, multi-function
digital power meter/monitor
designed for Continental Control Systems by Syncroness.
Applications
As an electronic product design company
with 2 5 years of experience, we've seen a lot of common and un-common applications. Analog and hardware design expertise
coupled with extensive microcontroller and embedded firmware experience have allowed us to tackle a broad range of designs
including:
Analog and digital controls
Data acquisition systems
Test and measurement instruments
Internet appliances
Consumer products
Digital signal processing
Image processing and machine vision
Processors
With more than 100 man-years of electrical
engineering experience under our pocket protectors, you can bet we've tamed a lot of embedded processors and controllers.
From 4-bit to 32 and every power of 2 between, we've programmed from A-to-Z (AMD to Zilog). With Motorola and Intel we've
covered the 68's and 80's. (Even buried Pentium's in high performance instruments.) And we really like DSPs and PICs.
Whether you're optimizing for performance, price or other parameters, we can help you with the design decision, then squeeze
the last byte into firmware. We've used commercially available real-time OS's and even designed tiny, tuned performance RTOS's
for highly specialized devices
Multi-lingual
When working in the embedded world with as many types of controllers as we have, you have to speak a lot of languages. C, C++ and many dialects of assembler come natural to us. Visual Basic, Fortran and Pascal have been used to represent complex algorithms and device controls. At Syncroness, OOPs is no mistake. But when it comes to documentation, we use your language and your customers'. We pride ourselves not only in the functionality of our designs, but in their maintainability as well.
Complex Devices
The digital design world has seen many
breakthroughs in component complexity, miniaturization and design tools. One of our important jobs is keeping up with
these advances and making sure our customers' solutions are competitive. For example, we have made extensive use of
PLDs and FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) to simplify otherwise complex hardware designs. We have built devices
with FPGA's which allow us to easily update the hardware design as requirements evolve.
Tools and Toys
With technologies that change continuously,
it is important (and non-trivial!) for your engineering partner to stay abreast of the latest tools and methods. Not only do
we continually invest in new design systems, emulators, cross-compilers and other tools of the trade, we maintain
personal relationships with key vendors and other members of the design community. We're not intimidated by new
technologies or tools. But then again, its not work. It's what we love to do. Altium's Protel and PCAD, Orcad,
Altera, Octave the open source MatLab, Visual Studio, GDB, GCC, Hi-Tech compilers and Agilent 'scopes are among
the tools and toys you'll find on our bench
Altium
Designer / Protel |
PCAD |
Orcad
schematic |
IAR
workbench |
HiTech
C |
GCC |
Visual
Studio C# VB .NET |
Labview |
Matlab |
8051,
PIC and x86 Assemblers |
Linux |
VHDL/Verilog |
