Hardware / Board Design and Development

Whether you are looking for outsourcing the design and development of a high speed, high density multi-layer boards using high speed Microprocessors / DSPs / FPGAs or a low cost two layer, moderate speed micro-controller based board, Caravel is your right partner. Caravel has done both, cost effectively.

Caravel has experience and knowledge to design boards to meets various industry form factors, comply with various industry busses, and interface using various standard peripheral interconnects, various communication standards.

Caravel has put in place time tested design processes and systems to offer its customers complex board designs in the shortest possible time to enable them to take the product to the market faster. Board design services offered include

	Architecture design
	Component selection
	Schematic capture
	Board Layout
	Design for Manufacture (DFM) / Design for Test (DFT)
	Signal integrity
	EMI/EMC analysis
	Thermal Analysis
	Prototyping
	Board Bring-up, testing and design validation
	Pilot production
	Manufacturing support

We can offer you services in the following areas

	Single Board Computers (SBC), Industrial Motherboard designs
	Add-on cards based on PCI, ISA, PC104, PCI104, PCMCIA busses.
	Peripheral adapters for IDE, SATA, SCSI, Compact Flash
	Micro-controller based boards for standalone / handheld systems and standalone / network enabled Industrial controllers
	DSP based controllers for various processing / control applications
	Ruggedised systems for military applications
	Silicon validation and reference boards
	Custom built test jigs

Embedded Software development capabilities and competencies

Area	Capability
PCB Design	upto 12 layers board density with multiple BGA packages of size upto 1152 pins and other packages PCB Size upto 20in X 12in Milgrade boards with thermal dissipation layer
Processors	Intel Pentium centrino mobile processors and chipsets ( 855 / 965) Experienced with routing constraints associated with high speed Front Side Bus PowerQUICC family of processors MPC860 PowerPC processors and chipsets (MPC107)
Micro-controllers	8051 family ARM7 family PIC family ATMega family Motorola HC8 / HC12 family Hitachi family
DSPs	TI DSPs
FPGA /CPLDs	Xilinx, Altera, Cypress, LatticeVHDL/Verilog Densities upto 1 million gates
Memory	SDRAM, DDR/DDRII designs Familiar with routing constraints associated      with these memories
Interconnect busses	ISA, PCI, PC104, PCMCIA,
Communication interface:	UART ( RS232/RS485/RS422), SPI, I2C, CAN, USB, GPIB, Modem, IRDA, Ethernet, Bluetooth, Zigbee
Peripheral interconnect:	IDE, SCSI, SATA
Analog designs	Analog circuit designs for signal conditioning ADC & DAC interface Filter design Power supply design - SMPS, Linear, DC-DC Switchers, Battery charging and monitoring   Mixed signal designs handling both high speed digital & Analog circuits and interfaces
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