Hardware Design
Choosing the right design partner is one of the most critical decisions you'll make. The right hardware design is essential for minimizing your product's cost, maximizing its reliability, and optimizing its manufacturability. Cardinal Peak has the breadth and depth of expertise necessary to help you achieve these goals.
Cardinal Peak's hardware designers will work with you to define your product's features and to develop an appropriate hardware architecture for implementing them. We have the experience necessary to trade off cost versus performance as we tailor your design to the specific requirements of your market. And we won't needlessly reinvent the wheel—many times third party sub-systems can provide a substantial piece of the functionality your product requires and we’ll incorporate them as appropriate.
Cardinal Peak's hardware team possesses the full range of design skills success demands including system architecture, ruggedized design, component identification, vendor qualification, schematic design, FPGA design, and layout. Using our established ties with board fabrication and assembly vendors we will guide your design through its initial prototyping and debug phase. Finally, we'll work closely with your selected manufacturer to ensure a smooth handoff, including developing test fixtures to simplify the manufacturer's job.
Our areas of expertise include the following:
- Video encoders and decoders
- HDMI, SDI Receivers and Transmitters
- TI DaVinci, Integra, and OMAP media processors
(We are a TI-certified partner, see here.) - Ambarella encoders
- Embedded systems and System on Chip (SoC)
- FPGAs
- Radar processing
- Active and passive filters
- Power supplies
- Data acquisition systems (A/D and D/A)
- Phase lock loops (PLL)
- Timing and Signal Integrity analysis
- PIC processors
- Dense multi-layer board design and layout
- High speed serial interfaces (GigE, SATA, LVDS, etc.)
Cardinal Peak can also perform the mechanical design of your product. We excel at:
- Injection and rotationally molded, machined, and cast thermoplastics, thermosets, and elastomers.
- Design for aesthetics (ID).
- Casting, extrusion, stamping, molding and machining of metallic parts.
- Detailed tolerance, life assessment, stress, cycle fatigue, thermal, and failure modes and effects analysis.
Contact us to learn more about our hardware design engineering services.
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See how Cardinal Peak engineering consulting services have helped companies in a variety of industries successfully bring new embedded devices to market.
"The Cardinal Peak team started quickly and delivered high-quality results, and they worked really well with our own engineering team. It was a positive experience for us."
Charles Corbalis, VP of Engineering, RGB Networks
