Services

Wireless Design Services

Spectrum has experience in systems level wireless design and integration services for customers, including medical device manufacturers, the military avionics industry, cell phone manufacturers, and network communications companies. Employing highly specialized engineers with extensive experience in wireless technologies allows us to address virtually any wireless development need. We can get your design to market quickly using reliable, cutting edge technology.

Wireless Design and Integration Experience

Our engineers have experience implementing the following technologies into customer products:

Cellular
- CDMA/1xRTT
- GSM/GPRS
- HSDPA/HSUPA
Satellite
GPS, AGPS, DGPS, WAAS, LAAS
Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n)
2.4 GHz Standards
- Bluetooth
- 802.15.4 point-to-multipoint
- Zigbee and proprietary mesh networks
Custom RF
- 433 MHz, 868/915 MHz, 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz
- Narrowband, frequency hopping and wideband direct sequence spread spectrum
- Custom protocol design
- Error correction/detection coding
- Custom and industry standard compression algorithms
RFID
- Active and passive tags
- 134.2 KHz, 13.56 MHz, 900 MHz
Licensed band radios for North America and Europe

SDS wireless experts can engage at any stage in the wireless design and/or integration process, including:

Hardware
- Module and chip level integration
- Custom antenna design and tuning
- Off the shelf antenna integration and optimization
Software
- Custom protocol development
- Network stack integration
- Security/encryption driver integration
- API integration for cellular radio modules
- Fault tolerant remote software/firmware update
- Operating system driver integration
  - Operating system driver integration
  - Microsoft Windows CE/Mobile
  - ThreadX
  - uC/OS
  - OpenAT
  - VxWorks
  - QNX
Testing Services
- Cellular certification pre-scan (PTCRB and carrier level certifications)
- TIS/TRP pre-scan
- Multi-radio coexistence testing
- Spectral analysis
- Insertion loss
- Impedance measurement