Our Electronics Brief provides a master outline for your electronics
Our electronics services start with an electronics brief. Our brief outlines key functional requirements, environmental factors and a step-by-step outline of inputs and responses, which helps ensure your product delivers an exceptional experience.
Functional Narrative
The Henning Product Development Electronics brief begins by defining the key functional requirements in a narrative that helps capture how the product will be used and its desired results. For instance, a device to help promote blood flow by applying intermittent pressure to an extremity helps the blood advance through the circulatory system thereby reducing the possibility of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) that can lead to a stroke. The narrative for such a device describes the causes of DVT, how it is treated, and your product's approach to the problem.
This narrative ensures our hardware and firmware specialists have a good understanding of the problem and your approach, which helps them formulate advanced solutions.
Environmental Factors
Environmental factors play a key roll in defining the product. A device used in below-zero temperatures requires a different approach than one used in a hot and dusty environment. Sources of power also play a key roll. By having a clear understanding of the product and its usage scenarios, our engineers' work is done right early on saving time and expense throughout the project.
And because its an integrated solution, the interaction of mechanical and electronic systems is optimized as the product development progresses leading to an efficient and a well-defined product.
Functional outline
With the functional requirements and environmental factors defines, a step-by-step process outline helps determine the components and code required to meet the user's expectations.
The functional outline takes a step-by-step approach from off to off. The outline identifies key user inputs, feedback mechanisms and product functions for a rich user experience. This outline combined with the environmental factors and functional narrative allows us to select the right components for your product and provides a framework for efficient code writing.
The first step towards a well designed circuit is a detailed electronics brief by Henning Product Development.
Development boards, breakouts and jelly-bean components come together to validate the selected hardware and code.
Hardware and Software come together beautifully.
Hardware Design
The recent explosion of available development boards and the standardization of components has lead to a broad selection of options for new product development. Depending on your project and goals, we develop simple perfboard prototypes with basic components to quick Arduino solutions to custom PCB assemblies with AMD architecture programmed with firmware and ready for manufacture.
Coding and Firmware
With the components selected, the functional outlines provides a foundation for efficient code writing. The step-by-step outline is translated into code complete with if-then statements, subroutines and calls to libraries. We program development boards and assemble a test circuit using breadboards. These allow quick feedback to evaluate the code and overall functionality. Comparing the breadboard prototype to the functional outline ensures we have a robust system before prototypes are made.
The end result is a custom circuit board integrated perfectly with your product.
Electronic prototypes
Once the hardware selection and code have been validated, we fabricate a custom circuit for your product. For very simple functionality, we quickly assemble a perfboard prototype saving time and expense. For more elaborate circuits, we define the circuit paths in a Gerber file and prepare a custom PCB for your product. Our expertise in soldering and integrating electronics into physical products ensures a compact design with a robust interface.
Once the hardware and code is validated, proof-of-concept prototypes are made for demonstration from simple perfboard prototypes like this one to custom printed circuit board assemblies.