Tools

In order to design and develop high quality embedded products, several tools are used to aid the design and development process.

Design Center CAD Tools

• Altium Designer - Schematic Entry / PCB Design / Berkeley XSpice Circuit Simulation
• LTSpice - Power Supply and Analog Circuit Simulation
• Mathematica - mathematical computation software
• IAR Embedded Workbench - Atmel AVR Embedded C compiler, Texas Instruments MSP430 Embedded C compiler
• Keil Embedded Development Tools - 8051 C compiler - evaluation version
• Nuhertz FilterFree - Filter Synthesis Tool
• Xilinx Vivado - FPGA Development
• Sublime - Text Editor

Laboratory Equipment - PCB Assembly and Rework

• Stencils Unlimited Solder Stencils
• Articulations LLC Reflow Oven
• Motic SMZ-168 Stereo Zoom Microscope
• Weller WD2 Dual Soldering Station
• JBC Advanced TE 5000 Soldering / Desoldering Station
• Milwaukee Variable Temperature Heat Gun
• GB-928 Ultra Sonic Cleaner

Laboratory Equipment - Test Verification

• Tektronix TDS 2024B Oscilloscope
• GW Instek GPC-3060D Power Supply
• Fluke 189 True RMS Multimeter
• Custom instrumentation measurement circuitry

Configuration Management

• Subversion - Revision Control System