CAPUF EMBEDDED provides complete custom hardware development services for companies building hardware products. In the past experience, we have helped companies with prototype development, completed Microcontroller, microprocessor, and system-on-module-based hardware development from concept to production, and helped teams with design reviews and optimizations like power consumption, computational performance, cost, etc.
We have designed complex designs, such as Military-Grade ultra-low-power Software-defined radio controllers, personal trackers/asset tracking devices, Forklift Vehicle Body Control Units, car keyFOB designs with multiple radio connectivity, an EV Charging station payment Box, Industrial Dataloggers, a Payment SoundBox, and PCB Testing solution for Inverters and transformers, Lithium Battery Pack Monitoring Solution, BMS/Battery Pack Testing Solution, etc.
Hardware Development Cycle
We recommend understanding the hardware development process if you are new to custom hardware development. There are 16 Steps involved in any typical custom hardware development:
- Hardware Technical Specification
- Architecture Design
- Components Selection
- Electronics Design
- Schematic Capture
- BOM cost analysis
- Compliance consideration
- Testing Procedure definition
- PCB Layout
- 3D Model / Mechanical fitment check
- Generate Manufacturing Files
- Send Manufacturing data to Vendor for PCB/PCBA samples
- Prototype version 1 board bring up, testing and debug
- Delta revision based on feedback from version 1 prototype testing
- Send Version 2 files for manufacturing
- Prototype version 2 board bring up, testing and debug
- Only by this stage are you ready for pilot testing in the field.
A detailed hardware development cycle is discussed in the article written by our founder, Pallav Aggarwal
Custom Hardware Design Solutions
We offer custom hardware design solutions tailored to a company’s specific needs, from the initial concept to production-ready hardware.
Component Selection
The component section is a very critical stage of hardware development. We help companies choose components suitable for particular hardware for a specific use case, considering long-term availability, cost, available alternatives, and reliability. We have helped companies select critical components like Displays, Compute Modules, Connectivity Modules, etc., for their critical needs.
Schematic Capture and PCB Layout Design
We provide schematic capture and PCB layout design services for various consumer, industrial, medical, and automotive applications. We use EDA tools like Altium Designer, KiCAD, etc. We can take hard-drawn schematics or inputs as functional requirements and create schematics for your needs.
Define Hardware Testing Procedure
Several companies have no previous experience in custom hardware development; we help them not only design custom hardware but also guide them and design hardware testing procedures so that they can ensure their hardware works reliably and has all the protections for harsh field operation.
Prototyping and Testing
We offer prototyping and hardware testing services for custom hardware designs to ensure that the hardware meets the product’s functional, performance, and reliability requirements. We have an in-house state-of-the-art hardware testing lab with all testing equipment, such as precision digital multimeters, Digital power supplies, electronic DC loads, oscilloscopes, Digital logic Analyzers, PCB Microscopes, etc. Once the prototype arrives, we do block-level testing and note the results. Block-level testing ensures we can check the detailed performance of a particular hardware block before moving on to the overall hardware design.
Teardown as a service
We offer a teardown service, in which we will do a detailed hardware teardown and give a detailed report on the components, BoM cost, advantages, limitations, comparison of various competition devices, etc.
We have a lot of experience with teardowns.
Our founder has already carried out 65+ teardowns of his own personal interest, which are published on his blog for free for you to review. Please check 65+ teardowns. We are sharing these as we can’t share customer-driven teardowns publicly.
CAPUF EMBEDDED Pvt. LTD. can help you design your hardware product in the fastest timelines considering reliability, cost and long-term manufacturability.