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Electronics design services
Circuit design that survives contact with the real world: correct on the bench, manufacturable in volume, and documented well enough that someone else can build the next revision without phoning us.
Where electronics projects actually go wrong
Almost never in the schematic. They go wrong in the gap between a circuit that works on a breadboard and a board that works across temperature, tolerance and a production run of five hundred. A regulator that is stable at room temperature oscillates at 60°C. A sensor front-end that reads cleanly on a bench supply picks up switching noise once the motor driver shares the ground plane.
We design for that gap deliberately: worst-case analysis on the parts that matter, simulation before committing to silicon, and a bring-up plan written before the boards arrive rather than improvised after.
What the work covers
Architecture and block-level design, component selection with availability and second sources checked at the point of choice rather than at production, schematic capture, and the analysis that backs it — power budgets, thermal margins, tolerance stack-ups, and LTspice simulation of the loops that will decide whether the board is stable.
On the power side that means switching and linear supplies, battery charging and protection, and battery management up to pack-level monitoring. On the signal side, precision analog front-ends for sensors, mixed-signal partitioning, and RF and antenna work where a radio has to survive a real enclosure rather than a lab bench.
How an engagement runs
A short paid feasibility phase first, almost always. It produces a block diagram, a bill-of-materials skeleton with real part numbers and lead times, and the list of technical risks worth spending money on early. That phase is cheap and it is where most of the value gets created, because it is the last point at which changing your mind costs nothing.
Design proper follows in reviewable stages — architecture, schematic, then layout handoff — with a review at each boundary. You get the design files, not just the outputs, so nothing about this work locks you to us.
Questions
What people ask before starting
Can you take over a design someone else started?
Yes, and it is a common way projects reach us. The first step is a paid design review — we read the schematic, check the part choices against current availability, and give you a written assessment of what is sound, what needs rework, and what we would not build on. Occasionally the honest answer is that a restart costs less than a rescue, and we would rather tell you that at review stage than three months in.
Do you handle certification and compliance testing?
We design for compliance and support you through it, but we are not a test house. That means EMC-aware layout, appropriate filtering and protection, and the documentation a lab needs. Actual certification testing happens at an accredited facility, and we will tell you before layout starts which standards your product is likely to face — because retrofitting compliance after a failed pre-scan is one of the most expensive mistakes in hardware.
What does the feasibility phase cost and how long does it take?
It depends entirely on scope, so any number here would be fiction. What we can commit to is the shape: it is fixed-price, quoted after one technical call, and short enough that you are not funding an open-ended study. Send us what you have and we will scope it.
Who owns the design files?
You do, on final payment, including native source files rather than exported PDFs. We keep no lien on your hardware and use no proprietary toolchain that would prevent another firm from picking the work up.
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Where this usually connects
Tell us what you are building
One technical call is usually enough to tell you whether this is straightforward, genuinely hard, or the wrong approach entirely. We would rather say so early than quote for the wrong thing.
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