Engineering | Compass Electronics Solutions

The growing market for high performance and efficient devices faces many challenges, from power constraints and energy efficiency to processing power and overheating. Choosing a partner who can translate market need into breakthrough technologies has never been more critical in new product development. Compass Electronics Solutions (CES) brings together a highly skilled, full-service team of focused experts in the product development process. Our comprehensive product development expertise spans electrical, software, mechanical, and systems engineering.

Electrical Engineering

Our electrical engineers balance real-world considerations to ensure viable solutions, striking an equilibrium between development costs and time, manufacturability and scalability, and the specific considerations associated with your project. From high-level electronic system architecture to the intricacies of FPGA design, the CES electrical engineering team displays both depth of expertise and a broad range of skills. Our engineers specialize in PCB layouts for real-time connectivity, security, reliability, and intuitive interface.

The reliability of our process has made CES a trusted partner to key industry leaders, proving our value time and time again. Our electrical engineering expertise includes but is not limited to:

Architecture & Documentation

Recommend the right microcontroller or microprocessor for the application
Help decide between module and chip-down design approaches
Partition complex systems for parallel design and reuse
Develop subsystem requirements, verification plans and test reports
Ensure use of components with long-term availability
Manage electrical design documentation package and component database

Sensor/Actuator Integration

DC and stepper motor control
Position sensor monitoring and control systems
Optical, magnetic, temperature, pressure, flow, force, gyro, accelerometer
Data acquisition systems

Microcontroller Design

8/16/32-bit microcontroller-based electronic systems
Optimization for low-power battery operation
Full set of inter-IC interfaces (SPI, I2C, UART)
In-system programmability and debug

ARM Application Processor

32/64-bit microprocessor-based electronic systems (up to 1.5 GHz)
High speed memory interfaces (DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR4, eMMC, SDIO, QSPI)
High speed peripheral interfaces (PCIE, SATA)
Display / LCD screen integration (HDMI, LVDS, DSI, Display Port) up to 4K
Touch screen selection and integration: cap-touch (PCAP multitouch) or resistive
Camera integration (CSI-2)
Digital audio (I2S)

Wired/Wireless Communication

Ethernet (10/100 and Gigabit) and CAN
RS-232, RS-422 and RS-485
USB 2.0 and USB 3.1 including USB-C
Bluetooth and BLE, WiFi (802.11a/b/g/n), Zigbee (802.15.4), LoRa
LF, HF (NFC) and UHF RFID

System Power Management

Switching power supplies and low dropout (LDO) linear regulators
Power gating and power sequencing
Supply monitoring and system reset
Battery charging

Simulation, Testing & Certification

Circuit simulation using SPICE
Signal integrity simulation using Hyperlynx
FPGA design and simulation
Digital signal processing (DSP) modeling and implementation
EMC testing

PCB layout

Compact routing of 1-24 layer PCBs
Constraint management for high-speed signals
Custom board shapes
3D board visualization and CAD export
Industry standard tools (Cadence, Altium, Mentor)

Software Engineering

Our team of software engineers have not only seen it all, they’ve done it all for many global technology leaders (including Intel, Microsoft, and Google). CES Software Engineers can fully configure software to streamline your device’s introduction to the market through seamless implementation.

We Architect, Design & Develop:

For 8-64 bit processing systems
In C, C++, C#, Java and other languages
For bare metal, uCOSII/III, freeRTOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Windows CE and Windows platforms

Application Software Engineering

Windows, Windows CE, Linux and Android applications
Message processing and communication gateways
UI design and implementation – from simple text panels to animated 1080p multi-touch GUIs on both embedded and desktop platforms

Embedded Software Engineering

RTOS – ISR, timer tasks, intertask communications, events and semaphores
Processors – ARM, DSP, Texas Instruments, Freescale, Intel
Bus interface – ATA, DMA, USB, I2C, SPI, RS-232, GPIO, TCP/IP, SDIO, CAN
Device interfaces – LCD, touch, accelerometer, motors, audio, GPS, compass, encoder

Software Engineering Processes

Software Requirements Specifications
Software Test Plans
Software Design Specifications
Software Development Systems
Software Project Management

Mechanical Engineering

Our Mechanical Engineers come from a wide range of backgrounds and are experienced in all areas of the product development process. Our team has the expertise and resources to help you solve your technical issues to create the most advanced devices on the market.

Material selection
Electronics packaging
Rugged and sealed enclosures
Motion control
Complex CAD surfacing– Pro/ENGINEER and SolidWorks
Complex mechanisms
Micro fluidics

ASME Y14.5M and Y14.41 documentation
Functional rapid prototypes
Regulatory and certification pre-testing
Simulation and analysis
- Structural
- Thermal
- Fluid dynamics

Systems Engineering

Our Systems Engineers have the multi-disciplinary experience to manage the complexity of either Internet of Things (IoT) development or non-connected development throughout the product lifecycle. As devices become smarter, with increasing connectivity, and IoT grows more ubiquitous, the product development process will require unprecedented collaboration and coordination to optimize system performance at all phases of development. Our team of systems engineers has the knowledge and skills to ensure your device is optimized throughout the product lifecycle.

Cross-functional technical leadership of complex system
Requirements management
Human factors & usability

Risk management
Systems integration & test
Regulatory expertise
Heuristic analysis

Product Design

Manufacturing

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