Industries

Sectors, not just services

The discipline is the same everywhere; the constraints are not. A UAV avionics board and a dialysis machine board are both high-speed layout jobs — and almost nothing else about them is alike.

Defense and unmanned systems electronics

Airframe electronics fail in three ways — vibration, the launch event, and a transmitter desensitising its own navigation receiver. All three are decided at layout, not in test.

UAS / UAV avionicsAutopilot carriersCubePilot / PixhawkArduPilot / PX4GNSS RTK

Marine autonomy and USV electronics

A sealed hull has no convection path and a mast has four radios competing for the same sky. Marine autonomy is a thermal and RF-coexistence problem long before it is a compute problem.

USVEdge computeAISGNSS RTKROS 2

Medical device electronics

Two things separate medical from ordinary industrial work: the isolation barrier has to be justified against a specific means of protection, and every decision has to be evidenced. A design you cannot defend on paper is a design you have not made.

IEC 60601-12× MOPPLeakage currentIEC 60601-1-2IEC 62304 adjacency

Industrial automation and HMI

Field wiring brings surges and ground-potential differences into your enclosure, and the product has to still be buildable in ten years. Both constrain the design more than the function does.

EtherCAT / PROFINETTSNCAN-FDIsolated RS-485IEC 61000-4-5

Robotics and motion electronics

Motor drives generate the two problems that define this field — energy coming back up the bus when the load decelerates, and PWM edges radiating from every meter of motor cable.

BLDC / FOCVESCRegen brakingEncoder integrityCAN-FD

Smart energy and metering

A meter sits on the wrong side of the surge protection, has to stay accurate for fifteen years, and must report its own death using energy it stored beforehand.

Class 1 / 0.5SIsolated metrologyDying gaspRF-PLC hybridIEC 61000-4-5

IoT and remote telemetry

Devices that are installed once and expected to work for a decade with nobody visiting. What ends them is rarely the radio — it is a leakage path nobody measured and an antenna the enclosure detuned.

LoRaWANNB-IoT / LTE-MTen-year batterySecure bootEN 18031

Automotive and e-mobility electronics

The supply is hostile, the temperature range is wide at both ends, and everything vibrates. Automotive electronics is mostly about surviving the environment; the function is the easy part.

CAN / CAN-FDISO 7637-2AEC-Q100 / Q200Load dumpLIN

Test and measurement instrumentation

When the measurement is the product, the specification is an error budget — and tempco, thermal EMF and leakage usually consume more of it than the converter does.

Error budgetKelvin sensingGuardingIsolated front endThermal EMF

Connected consumer and professional products

Unit cost, certification and industrial design all constrain the same board at once — and the antenna is where those three collide.

BLE / Wi-FiPre-certified modulesRED / EN 18031Antenna keep-outVolume DFM

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The engineering usually transfers — what changes is the standards and the failure modes. Tell us the environment and the regulatory target and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.