Our combination of knowledge in hardware and real time embedded software techniques gives us a leading edge advantage in design capability.

Our knowledge of real time software systems gives us a true understanding of the hardware requirements needed to produce a well integrated and robust design.

As mentioned in detail on the Software design page, LabWindows CVI software running on a PC and a real time sampling card enables early simulation of hardware requirements. This can help to remove at least one stage of prototyping and thus reduce hardware costs and project duration.

Zuken-Redac's Cadstar is a state-of-the-art schematic capture and PCB layout tool. Our experience using it extends over 11 years and many different product PCB's, both for our own products and other companies. Our hard earned experience in what is required to meet EMC emission and isolation requirements enables us to quickly generate a successful hardware solution at the first time of asking.

When a field acquisition system is required (for sampling signals from partial hardware under real running conditions), a user interface compatible with LabWindows PC drivers can be written to meet all your requirements. The data obtained from this can be used to fine tune the simulated product version and so help to define the necessary full hardware design solution.

Hardware tools used to design, prototype and prepare for fabrication include, but are not limited to:

Microchip - ICEPIC
An emulation system for PIC microcontrollers and integration to breadboard prototype hardware.

Fujitsu microcontroller DSK
Development Starter Kit system for projects that require the capabilities of the Fujitsu MB90Fxxx Flash ROM microcontroller family.

Texas Instrument DSP DSK
Motorola DSP DSK
Development Starter Kit systems for rapid construction of breadboard prototype hardware requiring the number-crunching power of a DSP core system.

National Instruments - LabWindows / CVI
High speed sampling card and driver software enables extension capture of signals, or provision of circuit stimuli. Exceedingly useful for integration to breadboard prototype hardware - emulation of any microcontroller / DSP using the PC as host.

Zuken-Redac - Cadstar
State-of-the-art PCB design package. Provides full schematic capture and multi-layer PCB layout capabilities.

We are specialists in embedded software development. Our experience includes, but is not limited to:

Fujitsu CISC Microcontrollers (16 bit)
MB90F497 - up to 6 MIPS (at 16 MHz), 32 KWord Flash, 2 KWord SRAM

Hitachi Microcontrollers (16 bits)
H8/3048 - up to 8 MIPS (at 16 MHz), 128 KWord Flash, 4 KWord SRAM

Microchip 'PIC' RISC Microcontrollers (8 bit)
PIC16F873 - up to 5 MIPS (at 20 MHz), 4 KBytes Flash, 192 Bytes SRAM, 128 Bytes EEPROM
PIC18F6680 - up to 10 MIPS (at 40 MHz), 64 KBytes ROM, 3.5 KBytes SRAM

Siemens/Infineon Microcontrollers (16 bits)
80c167 - up to 12 MIPS (at 33 MHz), 128 KWord Flash, 4 KWord SRAM

Motorola DSP's (16 bit)
DSP56F803 - up to 40 MIPS (at 80 MHz), 37.5 KWord Flash, 2.5 KWord SRAM

Texas Instrument DSP's (16 bit)
TMS320c2406 - up to 30 MIPS (at 30 MHz), 32 KWord Flash, 2.5 KWord SRAM
TMS320c5402 - up to 100 MIPS (at 100MHz), external Flash ROM required, 16 KWords SRAM
TMS320c5502 - up to 300 MIPS (at 300MHz), external Flash ROM required, 16 KWords SRAM