Electronic Design Services

We draw our ideas both from past experiences as well as from new materials and your suggestions.  This helps us to to provide you with elegant, robust designs within the constraints of your budget and schedule.

We can work at your facility during critical phases so that we design exactly what is needed. 

Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Layout

An infinite number of ways exist to convert your circuit design into a printed circuit board.  Let Redgarden Engineering’s expertise handle this critical part of your design!

Critical initial design and design changes can be quickly and efficiently implemented at your facility to save you time and expense.  This facilitates communications and helps to avoid costly PCB design iterations.

• PCB layout review by a Manufacturing Engineer
• Low noise designs
• Controlled impedance and high-current traces
• High voltage creepage & clearance
• Minimized/controlled loops for DC-DC switchers
• Optimum board material, thickness, and layer stackup

We use Mentor Graphics Pads as well as Altium software for PCB layout. 

Project Management

    For complex projects, we can assemble and manage a team of electrical, mechanical, software, and manufacturing engineers along with related support including electronics assemblers and technicians.  We can provide the client with a single project team invoice.  Engineering can be provided on a best-effort, hourly rate (the usual method) or as a fixed-bid (with good project definition and understanding; usually a 30% mark-up).

    Our services span the typical formal project phases (research, planning, design input & output, verification & validation, transition to manufacturing, and sustaining).  Less formally, most projects include the following elements:

• Communicate.   Keep clear communication channels (through email, telephone, and face-face meetings) with the client, vendors, affiliates, and other engineers working on the project.
• Gather requirements.   Write a specification.  Create a budget and a list of milestones.  Review & iterate as necessary.
• Research & explore.  Simulate or prototype critical items.
• Do the engineering design.  Review with the customer.
• Build, troubleshoot, and modify the design as needed.  Test against the specification.  Document the design.
• Support the users.  Wrap up the project and acknowledge team members.  Appreciate what was achieved overall.
• Manufacturing Phase-In.  Provide support as needed to move the design into production. Identify and audit vendors, get volume pricing, write manfuacturing work instructions, etc.

Technical Writing and Patent Analysis by Engineers Who can Write

• Requirements, specifications
• Risk management, failure modes effects analysis, etc.
• Research protocols; verification & validation protocols
• Technical manuals & websites (e.g., this website)
• Grants
• Assistance with patent writing and analysis

Parts Kitting, & Assembly

    We can buy and kit parts from either a bill of materials (BOM) that we generate or from a BOM that you have. We can follow that up by having our electronics assemblers hand-stuff PCBs (as practical) as well as coordinating with a printed circuit board fabrication house and an automated circuit board assembly house.

    We have found that it is often quickest and cheapest to hand-assemble the first few printed circuit board assemblies for a prototype job. However, parts with ball grid arrays (BGAs) and quad flat no-lead packages (QFNs) with multiple pads on the bottom generally require machine stuffing.

    Our electronics technican can build and test cables and cable harnesses, chasses, etc..

Electronics Product Tear-down & Analysis

    We can open up an electronics product to analyze how it appears to function and how it is put together. This can be useful for both competitive product analysis and for assessing apparent likelihood of possible patent infringement. (Note that we can't say that a product is actually infringing--this is a matter for patent attorneys and the courts.)

Training, Design Reviews, & Expert Testimony:

    On-Site training is available for engineers, technicians, scientists, and others on such topics as:

• Electronic Design
• PCB Layout
• Electronics Troubleshooting
• Signal integrity & designing to minimize electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC/EMI) issues
• Spice Simulation
• Drawing clear, concise electronics schematics
• Writing clear, concise programmable logic code

    Design reviews and expert testimony are offered, particularly in areas of experience.