EMBEDDED ELECTRONICS
Generation RFID works in close cooperation with automotive Tier 1 and industrial OEM that require outsourcing of embedded electronic services. Our expertise covers from HW and SW development to the and EOL testing. This way, we can give a complete support as a company to the whole chain. Our priorities are focused on meeting product specifications at the correct time and cost.
EMBEDDED CAPABILITIES
Our development and test engineers work in close contact with the customer to achieve product requirements at the minimum time.
ELECTRONICS SCHEMATIC DESIGN
The electronics schematic is the reference for the hardware components. From this file, all the other documents are extracted, such as manufacturing BOM and test requirements.
As we know the importance of PCB layout in the the electronic products performance, EMC, thermal and DFM (design for manufacturing) intangible considerations are included during development phase.
FIRMWARE DEVELOPMENT
Embedded software is the motor of electronic products. However, only perfect motors perform excellent. For this reason, we give maximum relevance at our software embedded developments, considering trainings, advanced programming techniques, code reviews, CPU load control, UT/IT/BBT validation levels, stress testing and automotive rules, among others in order to eliminate field errors and enhance product performance.
POWER ELECTRONICS
Due to electrification, power electronics have opened new markets, such as automotive. Products as OBC (on board chargers), BMS (battery management systems) and controlled DC loads, have experienced new development demands. We collaborate with Tier1 companies offering our expertise in this field.
IoT DEVICES
Connectivity and big data walk together. IoT has bring the opportunity to gather date from remote devices and transform it in valuable information. We have implemented custom IoT electronic products with many RF communication technologies, such as LORA, WiFi, BLE, CAN, FR, LIN, Ethernet, among others.
MICROCONTROLLER EXPERIENCE
The main parameter when designing electronic products is the microcontroller. As it gives intelligence to the product, its selection must be accurate enough to avoid problems in the future. Some examples of microcontrollers used in our projects are STM32, LPC17xx, LPC11xx, Renesas, Infineon TriCore TC2x.
SW TESTING
We consider testing as important as development. For this reason, our engineers implement specific test cases to cover Unit, Integration and BBT during the development phase of the product. Stress testing, robustness testing, negative error injection and EOL are also part of our process to assure reliability of the solution.
PRESERIES MANUFACTURING
Our main activity is related to electronic product development. However, we have introduced the capability to manage the manufacturing of electronic products and EOL testing. This way, the customer has only one company to interface from the specification to the finished product reception.
SW UPGRADE: BOOTLOADER UPGRADE
All our software developments include a firmware upgrade capability. Implementing an embedded software bootloader is mandatory for products that constantly change due to new feature introduction. Over-the-air (OTA) or parallelized via multiple CAN / Ethernet bootloaders are in our portfolio. On the other hand, we have implemented time reduction techniques in EOL process, where test time must be minimized to enhance competitivity.
RTOS
Operating system (OS) intended to serve real-time applications that process data as it comes in, typically without buffer delays.
AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS
ISO 26262 is intended to be applied to safety-related systems that include one or more electrical and/or electronic (E/E) systems and that are installed in series production passenger cars with a maximum gross vehicle mass up to 3 500 kg. ISO 14229 Road vehicles — Unified diagnostic services (UDS) & ISO15765 Road vehicles — Diagnostic communication over Controller Area Network (DoCAN).
RFID
RFID stands for Radio frequency Identification. It is used to trace and identify, via RF signals, the object tagged with a smart label of chip. Our experience covers any operating band (LF, HF and UHF), covering the following protocols: 125KHz automotive transponders, ISO14443, ISO15693, ISO18000, among others.
BIOMEDICAL
The firmware of vaccine equipment and traceability of samples of biological products will be developed. This includes the following functions: RTOS, RTC, SD memory management followed by the FAT32 structure, RFID HF at 13.56MHz, screen control, sleep mode management and BT mesh.
ELECTRONIC MODULES READY TO USE
Our experience covers many fields in the development of embedded components area. They can be easily integrated in projects, so that product reliability is enhanced and time to market reduced.
COMPLEX LED DRIVERS
Our development team has integrated in top automotive brands LED controls based on complex LED drivers, such NCV78763, NCV78825 or NCV78723. They are high efficient smart power ballast and dual LED driver designed for automotive front lighting applications like high beam, low beam, daytime running light, turn indicator, fog light or static cornering.
STEPPER MOTOR DRIVERS
Smart headlights increase cars safety. Our designs for automotive Tier1 are based on NCV70522, a micro−stepping stepper motor driver for bipolar stepper motors, automotive qualified.
CAN DRIVERS
TJA1040, TJA1044, TLE9252 are interfaces between the Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol controller and the physical bus. They are intended for high speed applications, up to 1 MBaud, in passenger cars. All offer excellent EMC performance and high EMI inmunity, very low current in stand-by and full compatiblity with the ISO 11898 standard.
LIN DRIVERS
TJA1020, TJA1021 are interfaces between the LIN master/slave protocol controller and the physical bus in a Local Interconnect Network (LIN), intended for in-vehicle sub-networks that may use baud rates from 2.4 up to 20 Kbaud.
FLEXRAY DRIVERS
FlexRay standard has emerged as the in-vehicle communications bus to enhance performance and achieve new challenges in current vehicles, such as advanced control and safety systems that combine multiple sensors, actuators and electronic control units (ECU) require very high synchronization degrees, with data transfers up tp 10Mbit/s.
USB DRIVERS
USB (Universal Serial Bus) is the protocol used to standardize the connection of many electronic devices in the filed of IoT, IT, consumer and testing.
MEMORY
EEPROM, Flash and RAM are fundamental in embedded electronic devices for data storage. Special care must be taken when controlling memories to assure data integrity. Latency and file system organizations (e.g. FAT32) must also be taken into account.
DISPLAY
Displays, as GUI, inform the user about the content of the internal processes in the embedded modules. Depending on the image processing necessities, a Linux embedded in Qt environment must be used. But in most of embedded developments, regular microcontrollers can be used as software interface. We have experience in both approaches.
MODBUS
Modbus Protocol is a messaging structure used to establish master/slave – client/server communication between intelligent devices. It is a truly open and the most widely used network protocol in the industrial manufacturing environment. Modbus works over transceivers (RS232, RS485, TCP/IP, among others).
ETHERNET & WIFI
Most popular local networks are connected via Ethernet (802.3x) or WiFi (802.11x). Implementing prototols over any of these buses is mandatory for many of corrent IoT devices.
LORA DRIVERS
A LORA is intended for long range, low data rate, low power consumption and secure data transmissions. In this sense, when reliability is a must to assure the communication integrity between 2 RF points, no other private protocol must be used.
ENCRIPTION UNITS X
Though most of current microcontroller incorporate security encryption units to secure communications, external dedicated IC do enhance security levels to make communications absolutely unbreakable.
BT, BLE and MESH
Bluetooth was initially conceived to connect electronics devices in a point to point basis. As many technologies it evolved to fit new market demands, such as low energy consumption to assure long battery life or compatible device networking.
BMS (BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM)
Battery management is mandatory in order to assure longevity, efficiency and thermal stability of the batteries of mobile devices. Other features that are included are desulfatation or charge and discharge control.
