Reference Design

Are you a developer, inventor, or hobbyist in need of assistance in a particular area? Are you thinking of buying evaluation or demo kit for a given technology?

We can help you quickly and easily step over your technology barriers by using our library of software and hardware designs. We have the experience of a diverse range of technologies that we have designed into and around systems, the legacy of which is a proven library of designs.

For example, our hardware/software/firmware library includes:

• direct WiFi interfacing to cheap microcontrollers (specific reference design is: wireless 802.11 implemented with CCS C code on Microchip PIC18F series),
• direct USB interfacing to PIC chips (specific reference design is: USB1.1 implemented with PIC Basic Pro code on Microchip PIC18F series),
• graphic LCD drivers, in particular for the Batron 128x64 LCD (BTHQ128064 series, e.g BTHQ128064AVD, BTHQ128064AVC) which has very little technical support available (but it’s low-cost and easily obtainable),
• Bluetooth interfacing to cheap microcontrollers (specific reference design is: BT implemented with CCS C code on Microchip PIC18F series),
• Lithium-ion battery chargers and monitors,
• windows programming for UDP packets, USB support, and serial COM ports (Visual Basic),

• windows/DOS programming for parallel port access (particularly EPP) and serial port access (C),

• small footprint EPP parallel port state machine for MAXII (Altera Max 2) CPLD,
• small footprint SDRAM state machine for MAXII (Altera Max 2) CPLD,
• plus many more in the analogue, digital, RF, low power and high power domain.