Introduction

Technographic's team of electronics, software and mechanical designers are on hand to help you design and develop your electronic product. We will always aim to provide high-quality solutions together with full technical documentation.

We are a relatively small team of design engineers, but, with a wealth of design experience, can often achieve finished designs more quickly and economically than in-house designers.
Please feel free to discuss any design ideas with us (confidentially, of course).

If the requirement is clearly defined, we are normally able to offer a fixed-price quotation for the design work, ensuring that you stay within your budget.

On work carried out on a consulting basis, we are happy to pass intellectual property rights over to the customer (upon payment) allowing ongoing manufacturing to be achieved in the most economic fashion. If you require help with manufacturing, we are happy to oversee this for you too. We will be involved as much or as little as you like.

Hardware Design

Digital circuit design forms the mainstay of Technographic's design work. We have extensive experience of high-speed designs using standard logic, PALS and complex programmable logic devices.

Many of our own products are based around programmable logic devices, using a hardware description language (VHDL) to program the device operation. We find that such a design approach is excellent for prototyping and for flexibility in small-scale manufacture. All the skills that we apply to our own products are available as part of our Electronic Design Services.

Printed circuit board design is always performed in-house so that we have control over performance, EMC and safety issues - we consider this a part of the production engineering process.

Software Design

Software design is undertaken either as an integral part of an overall design involving hardware and software, or as a software product in its own right.
We take an engineering-style approach to programming based on good design and rigorous testing.

We have experience in programming in Microcode, Assembler, C and Visual Basic, under environments including DOS, Windows, and QNX, and for a huge variety of hardware platforms. (Our programming experience, like our hardware design, dates back to the late 1970's!)

EMC

As we design and manufacture in Europe we are well acquainted with European standards for safety and electromagnetic compatibility (EMC).
We always design with the standards in mind. This is particularly important with EMC where the cost of making a poorly designed product comply can be very significant.

We have our own EMC test equipment which is used for pre-compliance testing of prototypes, plus close links with accredited test laboratories so that your product can be fully certified prior to being placed on the market.