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Advanced Products.
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Advanced Input Systems understands
it is essential that your man-to-machine interface provide the
utmost in quality and reliability, at the lowest possible cost
of ownership. Our engineering staff can partner at any level
to jointly develop the technical alternatives and implementation
plan required to ensure a smooth and rapid transition to manufacturing.
This tiered / incremental support structure provides for planning,
designing, and cost modeling, as necessarily found in every
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COMPREHENSIVE ENGINEERING SERVICES |
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Industrial Design Engineering Services:
- Preliminary concept development
- 3D modeling
- User interface design
- Photo-realistic renderings
- Product styling
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Mechanical Engineering Services:
- Preliminary design and concept development
- Early proof of concept modeling
- Stress and thermal analysis
- Design for assembly
- Graphics design
- Design verification testing
Advanced Input Systems Mechanical Engineers are expert in:
- Customization
- Design integration
- Complex surfacing
- Illumination and backlighting
- Display integration
- Sealed and ruggedized keyboards
- Control integration - including encoders, slide pots, trackballs, joysticks, and a variety of pointing devices
- Numerous switch assembly approaches and complex electro-mechanical packaging
- Dynamic event simulations, EMI and thermal management techniques and analysis
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Electrical Engineering Services:
Advanced Input Systems' Electrical Engineering Services is supported by an extensive legion of systems, components, processes, tools—and talented people, such as electrical and firmware engineers, PCB designers, and component analysts.
System products include:
- Several PCB assemblies, medium to high levels of complexity
- SBC’s
- Displays & backlight inverters
- Display controllers, simple graphics to high speed video
- Touchscreens & controllers
- Encoders, sliders, pointing devices
- Bus controllers & hubs,(i.e. USB, CAN)
- RF (OOK, ASK, Bluetooth)
Component products include:
- One or two PCB assemblies, low complexity
- Keyboard, keypad encoders, USB, PS/2 ASCII RS-232 RS422 TTL serial etc.
- Character displays
- Displays and touchscreens without controllers
- LED’s and indicators
- Speaker’s and audio enunciators
- Integrated pointing devices
Processes include:
- CBB’s (Common Building Blocks)
- EE Design Process, (hardware & firmware)
- Firmware Library Process
- PCB Design Process
- Schematic, PCB Fab, Assembly Dwg, BOM
- PCB Library Process
- Component Engineering
- Electronic Part EOL Obsolete Parts Process
- Functional Specification and DVT Test Specification
Tools include:
- IAR development environment for C-based firmware
- Assembly language development support for several target microcomputers
- OrCAD Schematic Capture software
- OrCAD Physical Design software
- CATC software for protocol analyzer for USB, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394, InfiniBand and Bluetooth technology standards
- SPI interface qualification setup for new CBB
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Our Design Engineering teams have developed and brought to market a number of major initiatives and advancements:
- Design patents in process
- Component engineering/analyst function supporting life cycle management of new designs into long-term production
- Embedded 8051 core microprocessor designs and variants
- OrCad for Schematic capture, CadStar for PCB layout
- OrCAD Physical Design software
- Reusable building blocks for common reoccurring embedded control functions and switch modules
- Extensive experience with PC interfaces predominant in commercial products, and industry testing to established bus protocols
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SERVICES
Design Engineering
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