First Contact Engineering

Software

General Expertise

  • Requirements analysis / system design
  • Software / hardware trade-off studies
  • Performance analysis and optimization
  • Implementation and test

Operating Systems / System Software

  • Porting
  • Board support packages
  • Custom implementations
  • Device drivers
  • Ethernet, PCI, NV memory, bridges, A/D converters, UART, parallel port, E1, T1, ATM etc.
  • Custom ASIC's / FPGA's
  • Networking protocols: TCP/IP, HDLC
  • Commercial RTOS experience includes VxWorks, OSE, Nucleus, uC/OS-II, TI BIOS, SmartDSP and TinyOS.
  • We’ve developed compact custom real time schedulers for a variety of applications not requiring a full operating system.
  • Boot loaders
  • Diagnostic software

Wireless Applications

  • Wi-Fi
  • Zigbee
  • Bluetooth
  • LMDS
  • UMTS – 3GPP Layer 1 and Codec, HSDPA (both infrastructure and handset)
  • Satellite communications
  • Custom protocols

Other Applications

  • Wired telecom (SONET, voice and data access systems)
  • VoIP
  • Security Electronics
  • Defense

Target Processors

  • ARM (ARM7, ARM9)
  • Dallas / Maxim (8051-based microcontrollers)
  • Atmel (AVR)
  • PowerPC (750, 750FX, 860, 8260)
  • Intel (Pentium)
  • Motorola (M68HC11, MC68xxx)
  • DSP's– ADS, Texas Instruments, Freescale, StarCore

 

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