Electronics Design

Electronic Engineering Services

• Circuit and PCB design, optimisation, verification and prototyping
• Designing in new features for existing product updates
• Designing out faults in existing products
• Redesigning to reduce manufacturing costs
• Redesigning to replace superseded/obsolete or unavailable components
• Remedial EMC Compliance (EMC)
• Prototype production and testing
• Manual and automated PCBA test and programming jigs
• Production documentation and introduction to manufacture
• Test and certification process management
• Technical assistance for patent drafting

Engineering Expertise

• Circuit design and schematic capture in Altium Designer
• Low-power analogue, high-speed digital and RF systems design
• Solid, Rigid-Flex, Flexible and Aluminium PCBs
• Flexible membrane control interfaces (HMIs)
• Wireless PAN, LAN and WAN communication system design (BLE/BLE Extended Distance, WiFi, LoRa, NB-IoT, cellular, satellite)
• IoT edge devices (i.e. sensors and controllers) and device communications (e.g. LoRa and NB-IoT)
• Design For Manufacturing (DFM), Design For Assembly (DFA) and Design For Test (DFT)
• Advanced PCB design optimisation modelling and simulation

Microprocessors and Microcontrollers

Our design team is expert in developing platforms utilising the following MPUs and MCUs:

• ARM Cortex-M (e.g. Renesas Synergy, STM32)
• ARM Cortex-A (e.g. Freescale i.MX6, Allwinner A10/20, TI AM335x)
• ARM (e.g. NXP LPC2000, LPC3240)
• Renesas RX64/63 and H8 series
• TI TMS320 DSP and MSP430 series
• Fujitsu MB96310
• Microchip dsPIC
• Atmel Mega, SAM and 8051 series
• Siemens
• Nordic Semiconductor
• Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) NFC

Peripheral Device Integration

Our team is also highly proficient in integrating the following display, sensor, imaging and communications modules:

• Displays (LCDs, e-Ink)
• Touchscreens (capacitive, resistive)
• Sensors (accelerometers, temperature, pressure, humidity, PIRs)
• Imaging Systems (cameras and fingerprint, iris and barcode scanners)
• Card readers (Weigand card readers, smart cards, RFID tags)
• PAN, LAN and WAN communications (LoRa, NB-IoT, BLE, WiFi, NFC, ZigBee)

Design Simulation

Accurately predicting PCB signal and power behaviours in complex PCB designs prevents costly and time-consuming board re-spins and re-testing for regulatory compliance.

This example shows the advanced Sigrity Signal Integrity toolset being used to simulate a complex, multi-layer PCB to assess if all traces perform within tolerances; and what modifications resolve any out-of-specification behaviours, such as signal losses or crosstalk due to impedance discontinuities.

IoT Cloud Integration

Amatek is highly experienced in the design and development of IoT-enabled monitoring, control and communications solutions with cloud services running on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud or Microsoft Cloud, as well as enterprise applications, such as Microsoft Power BI.