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ENGINEERING & DESIGN SERVICES

WHAT WE DO

  IoT solution designs, product feasibility advisory, product design and development, quality assurance and compliance, manufacturing & support, and product sustenance are all included in the wide range of product engineering and design services offered from concept to product.

i. IoT Design & Consulting Services

Embedded Design – Innovative embedded technology options to assist in turning your product concepts into a distinctive execution. Cost Effective optimized solutions – Use the creative skills of our team to assist you get the best solution—not necessarily the "most advanced" or "the latest." By choosing the best components and platform instead of adopting a "over-design" or "extremely safe margin" strategy, we have been able to develop very cost-effective solutions. Concurrent Engineering - While hardware is being prepared, we create firmware to a high standard using development boards and tried-and-true stacks.

ii. Product Feasibility Advisory

  A feasibility study is a perceptive evaluation of the project's duration, cost, and market viability that aids in analyzing the feasibility of your requirements. The BOM, or bill of materials, A reliable system known as the "Bill of Materials (BOM)" is a crucial information source for product design. It contains a detailed inventory of the parts, assemblies, components, and amounts required for a product's design. Technical Feasibility Study: A well-designed technical feasibility study that estimates the project's technical requirements and evaluates every facet of the technology to be used.

iii. Product Design and Development

  Hardware Design (Board, FPGA): Gemicates adopts a rigorous approach to board design. At each stage, critical requirements such as performance, power, area, cost, availability, and manufacturability are thoroughly validated. Detailed reviews ensure accuracy and efficiency before transitioning to the next phase. BSP/Device Drivers: Gemicates ensures seamless integration of the Board Support Package (BSP) to implement device-specific support code. This acts as an interface for the device drivers, enabling smooth operation and compatibility. Embedded Software: Our expertise in specialized firmware programming allows precise control over the functions of various hardware components in embedded devices. System Integration: We perform systematic aggregation of all subsystem components into a unified system, ensuring they operate cohesively as one entity. Enclosure Design: Our skilled and experienced team delivers customized and aesthetically appealing enclosures tailored to meet specific needs. Prototyping: We provide rapid prototyping services to quickly develop proof-of-concept models, enabling efficient validation and iteration.

iv. Quality Assurance and Compliance

  Product Testing: For unparalleled product design quality, do seamless product testing. Interoperability and Certification Testing: The product's technical suitability for effective device interoperability. Support for Compliance and Certification: Ensuring that the product complies with technical standards and that the necessary certifications are obtained

v. Manufacturing and Support

  BOM Estimation & Optimization: Reduce costs by choosing the appropriate electronic parts, raw materials, assemblies, and quantities. Working together with OEMs and suppliers robust network of OEMs and suppliers that offer affordable solutions that support our ability to compete. Support for Test Automation: Facilitates effective and ongoing testing, which improves the quality of the final product.

vi. Product Sustenance

  Technical Support: By using clever product sustenance engineering solutions, technical support services can be provided effectively and efficiently. End-of-life product maintenance, or EOL maintenance, adds value to the product design. Cost Optimization: A Comprehensive Method for Cutting Costs Throughout the Product Design Life Cycle Localization: Making use of reusable electronic parts to enable seamless upgrades and scalability Re-engineering: Making sure that clever product ideas can be improved over time and keep them from going out of style Green compliance refers to environmental adherence to cutting-edge green designs for end-to-end product design and development, as well as the use of sustainable components and materials.

BOARD DESIGN

  Performance, power, area, cost, availability, and manufacturing capability are the main requirements that are verified at every stage of product design and development. Before proceeding to the next phase, thorough reviews are conducted.

  • Key Component Identification: Finding the proper fit for the main components, such as the CPU, peripherals like modems, wireless modules, and glue logic (FPGA, CPLD), takes up a large portion of the first phase.

  • Schematics Design: A very readable and understandable circuit diagram is created by connecting the chosen components in a hierarchical manner. Schematics are captured using programs like Orcad, Altium, Kicad, and others based on client requirements.

  • PCB Layout:At this point, the components are transferred to the physical domain for placement and routing. Once more, in order to save money, we pick for the most efficient method of determining the number of layers needed for the board. We can provide a range of tools, including Allegro, Kicad, pads, and more. Our designers employ best practices to reduce design iterations and are aware of the difficulties in signal integrity and high speed design. A good electro-mechanical co-design is essential to minimizing spinning and making sure the PCB fits properly in the intended enclosure.

  • Prototype Board Bring-up: The procurement of components and PCBs, as well as the assembly of the initial PCBAs, are overseen by our in-house prototype team. Our partner facilities assemble complex parts like BGA and QFN. The board is systematically checked after assembly to make sure every component is used and confirmed to function as intended. Important hardware-level metrics, including as power usage and battery charging efficiency, are noted and compared to anticipated results.

Board Design Highlights

  • Microcontroller, Analog, RF, FPGA
  • Platforms : Microchip PIC18/24/32, TI-Tiva, pSoC, ARM9, AM335x, 8051, AVR ...
  • Critical review process to minimize design spins to control time and costs
  • In-house prototyping team to handle sourcing and assembly
  • DFx : Design for Performance, cost, testability, manufacturability
  • Complexity: upto 16 layers, BGAs, High speed DDR, RF, SI and cross-talk

FIRMWARE AND APPLICATIONS

  Every microcontroller has firmware at its core, and the way the firmware code is executed dictates how well the product works both normally and abnormally. To guarantee that the finished product has the intended functionality, a fairly thorough process is needed. The firmware team at Gemicate has expertise implementing firmware in embedded controllers both on and off-OS. Gemicates can complete projects quickly thanks to its numerous design victories in low-level drivers and stacks.

  For monitoring and control, the embedded product in many items must communicate with another system, such as a PC, laptop, tablet, or phone. Both the host application and communication protocols are required for this. With a web-server technique, the application may be implemented without requiring any code on the host's end, and the device can be seen and managed via a browser from any location in the globe. Custom Android and.NET applications are sometimes needed, and Gemicates has partnered with capable companies to provide the necessary application.

The firmware development follows a smooth flow:
High level design: At this point, the product's requirements are converted into state and flow diagrams. This makes the next steps more clear and assists in breaking down the complicated need into digestible parts.
Coding and unit testing: The flow is put into code at this point, and its functionality is checked at the unit level. This is the project's most important phase, and every effort is made to guarantee that the code is well-written and has sufficient documentation.Integration testing: To confirm the intended functionality, the different modules are combined and tested in the target hardware.
Often, application development is necessary as an extension of the embedded solution. Gemicates can offer solutions in Embedded Web-server,.NET, Android, iOS, and other frameworks in collaboration with their preferred partners. Another important area of competence is creating embedded firmware for production testing, which significantly cuts down on manufacturing time and raises the product's cost-effectiveness.

Firmware/Application Summary:

  • Non-OS, Linux, RTOS
  • IDE: Eclipse, MPLAB-X, CCS, GTK...
  • Device Drivers
  • Board Support Packages
  • Diagnostics Tools
  • Embedded Webserver, .NET, Android, IOS
  • Production testing


TRAINING

  In the academic community, we will assist students in achieving their goal of becoming competent industry engineers throughout their last years of study.

  Our goal is to make the students "industry-ready" by giving them the appropriate resources, instruction, and practical projects.