Hardware

Hardware

We can design your schematic, your board layout, produce gerbers, arrange board manufacture and assembly, or leave any of that to you.

An Ethernet Control Unit, produced by us for a customer, features a 10Mb 802.11 wired interface, 10 year battery backup and RTC, serial interface, SD card and LCD connector. Using a PIC795MX512L and a PHY chip, it's built on a 6-layer PCB. It interfaces using UDP and collects data from various peripherals via an RS422 multi-drop topology at 100kbps.

The ECU is one-time programmed using an ICD3 and subsequently with a bootstrap loader via Ethernet in the field if any firmware upgrades are issued.