PCB design is a fundamental skill that applies to many of our product development activities. There are three criterion that differentiate our PCB design offering from that of the typical design house:

• Experts on staff with experience in difficult applications:
  • High speed design
  • Layout for RF antennas
  • EMI/EMC compliance
  • Layout for large scale design (such as X86 systems)
• Continuously refined design flow optimized for time to market
• Rigorous internal process to eliminate common mistakes prior to fab

SDS has experience designing PCBs for a wide variety of applications spanning many different industries including the following:

• Industrial automation using 8-bit and 32-bit microprocessors, FPGAs, and DSPs.
• Isolating circuit components from electrically noisy environments such as those with motors, electromechanical switches, RF devices, power converters, and other devices that cause electrostatic discharge.
• Embedded wireless and cellular modules that require special PCB materials and layout techniques for RF.
• High speed data acquisition systems
• ASIC prototyping and characterization
• Networking applications with embedded Ethernet or CAN
• Communication bridges
• Audio/video processing
• Handheld devices requiring low power design techniques.
• PCI cards
• High speed data interfaces with LVDS, LVPECL, and other differential protocols.

The following diagram illustrates a simplified version of our internally optimized design flow. For a more detailed description of our PCB design flow, please contact us.