Micro-Key services in a bird's-eye view
Please find below a complete summary of the services Micro-Key is able to provide. Micro-Key quotes these services as fixed price consultancy, development or manufacture projects:
Consultancy / Project Management
- Feasibility studies, requirement engineering and functional analysis
- Project Management for different types of product developments
Development (design and engineering)
- Embedded system design for optimal hardware and software platform choices
- Hardware design including: functional and technical design, simulation, schematic capture and PCB layout & route, all according to EMC standards
- Software design including: architectural design, detailed design and software coding & debugging
- Hardware and software design review and design verification
Prototype engineering
- Component procurement and PCB assembly
- Hardware and software integration
- Hardware and software integration
- Hardware design validation including EMC pre-compliance testing (subcontracted)
- Software design validation
- Technical product documentation
Initial production
- Hardware redesign from prototype to mature and reproducible product
- Design, engineering and constructing of product test benches
- Component procurement and PCB assembly
- Hardware redesign validation including EMC compliance testing (subcontracted)
- Technical product documentation
Volume production
- Product configuration management
- Supply chain management (procurement and logistics)
- PCB assembly (subcontracted)
- Product/system and cable assembly
- PCB level and/or product/system level testing on qualified test benches
- Packaging
- Distribution
Maintenance and repair services
- Warranty service, help desk and repair workshop
- Product part-list management
- Product design maintenance
Micro-Key commonly used technology and tooling
The core technology and tooling expertise includes the following:
Hardware
- 8, 16 and 32 bit microcontrollers and CPUs: 8051, ARM, ColdFire, PowerPC and microcontroller series of e.g. Atmel, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Infinion, MicroChip, Nec, Philips
- 8, 16 and 32 bit soft-core microcontrollers: Nios, 8051, ARM
- DSPs: Analog Devices, Texas Instruments
- Power supply circuits
- Complex digital and analog circuits and interfaces
- Motor drive interfaces: DC, AC and Stepper motors
- Peripheral interfaces: RS-232, USB, PCI
- Field bus interfaces: CAN, RS-485, Ethernet
- Network interfaces: Ethernet
- Wireless interfaces: Bluetooth, ZigBee
- System on Programmable Chip: Altera, Xilinx
- VHDL design for PLDs and FPGAs: Altera, Xilinx
Embedded software
- (Real-time) operating systems: VxWorks, Nucleus PLUS, CMX-RTX, embOS, Embedded Linux, WinCE
- Real-time system software and application software design
- Field bus protocols: CANopen, DeviceNet, Profibus, Profinet, Modbus
- Network protocols: TCP/IP, RTnet
- Custom-specific communication protocols
- Wireless communication: WLAN, GSM, GPRS
- Wireless positioning: GPS
- Assembler, C and C++
PC based software
- Graphical user-interface design
- Object oriented programming
- Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft .NET, Borland Delphi, National Instruments LabView
The core application areas are industrial, automotive, maritime and technical scientific electronic modules including:
- Device / instrument control
- Machine control
- Process control
- (Distributed) measurement & control systems
- Automotive electronic control units (ECUs)
- Maritime electronic control units
- Medical and pharmaceutical instruments
- Motion control
- Data acquisition & logging