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Full Lifecycle Embedded Systems Design

Critical Link has the embedded design expertise and engineering flexibility to offload product development tasks for our SOM customers. With an average of 15 years engineering experience, our team helps accelerate time-to-market while maintaining the highest quality standards. Our end-to-end electronic product development services include:

  • Product Concept
  • Analysis of Requirements
  • Product Design
  • Full Implementation & Testing
  • Manufacturing & Support

Contact info@criticallink.com to discuss your next development project.

Systems Engineering

Critical Link stands apart from other embedded systems design organizations in our ability to provide complete systems engineering services. Our team ensures a high quality design, laying a solid foundation for smooth implementation into the larger end system.

Our systems engineering expertise includes:

  • Requirements analysis
  • Algorithm design
  • Photonics
  • Control system design
  • Communications system design
  • Digital signal processing
  • System test

Contact info@criticallink.com to discuss your next development project.

Hardware Design

We support our clients along every step of the hardware development cycle, from product concept through manufacturing and beyond. We use FPGAs in many of our hardware designs, and as a result, programming in VHDL is second nature to our team.

  • PCB Design tools include Altium & OrCAD
  • VHDL for FPGA development
  • High speed, low noise analog data acquisition
  • Sensor integration
  • Processor subsystem design
  • High speed bus architectures including PCI, PCIe, USB, LVDS
  • Switching and linear power supply design

Contact info@criticallink.com to discuss your next hardware design.

Software Development

Critical Link’s software development capabilities cover a wide range of operating systems, languages, development environments, and protocols. We use a best-in-class, object-oriented approach that ensures our software performs exactly as expected.

Our software team can deliver top quality PC-based applications that complement our embedded platforms. Programming languages include C, C++,  C#, Assembler, Java, Ada, and a variety of scripting languages including Linux shell scripts, Perl scripts, Windows batch files.

  • Embedded Linux and BSPs
  • Real-time Operating Systems
  • DSP software / optimization programming
  • Device drivers – embedded and PC
  • Ethernet TCP/IP and serial based communications
  • Embedded software
  • Graphical User Interfaces

Contact info@criticallink.com to discuss your next software development project.

Prototyping

The systems development life cycle, more often than not, begins with developing a working prototype of your product. Critical Link is uniquely qualified to help with this phase – from interpreting your specifications to suggesting alternatives to optimize performance or achieve a more cost-effective design. We have designed thousands of prototypes for customers and are ready to help with yours.

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Manufacturing & Assembly

Every embedded systems design project generally culminates in a transition to production. Critical Link’s experience taking our own designs to production has given us the expertise to make your transition into production as seamless and smooth as possible.

Whether Critical Link manages manufacturing or you execute builds at another facility, we help ensure that your product design can be reliably reproduced in the hundreds, thousands, or many more units.

Contact info@criticallink.com to discuss your manufacturing needs.

Project Management

Our senior engineers are seasoned project managers with expertise in budgeting, scheduling, project requirements, product content, and quality. We manage for success, from the initial stages of development through production.

Critical Link’s in-house project management system is geared for jobs both large and small. Key components of our project management capabilities include:

  • Online collaboration tools
  • Weekly customer update / coordination meetings
  • Task breakdown (time and cost estimates accompany every proposal)
  • Frequent status reports
  • Weekly resource allocation (ensures skills match and proper staffing levels maintained)
  • Cost & Schedule Management (monitored from initial estimate to completion)

Contact info@criticallink.com to discuss your next development project.

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