Electronics

The Belcan Electronics Engineering Team’s design experience includes product development from conception and prototyping through production in the aerospace, medical, communications, and automotive industries.

Belcan’s experienced design team can provide successful deliverables at any time throughout the complete product development cycle, or assist at any level at any stage. From system design, requirements allocation and development through verification and test, Belcan is able to provide our engineering services to ensure successful product launch. Our approach uses a multiple site virtual team environment for "Quick Surge" response.

Hardware Design and Development

• Complete Requirements Development and Traceability
• All Disciplines Available – Systems, Digital, Analog, Packaging, Circuit Board Layout, V&V, Test, Test Equipment
• Design Improvements or Complete Designs

Circuit Design

• Developed from a Specification or from a Concept
• Circuit Board Layout as Part of Full Board Development, or as a Separate Activity
• Simulation or Stress Analysis Used to Verify Design Integrity – MathCAD, Cadence PSPICE Simulation
• Will Utilize Vendor’s Preferred Parts Lists and Library
• Expertise in High Speed Digital, Analog, and Power Supplies

Digital Circuit Card Design

• Board Level Digital Designs for Microprocessors, Serial Buses, Audio Recording and Playback, Video Acquisition, Processing and Display
• Microprocessor Design with 68340, 68360, MPC603e and Power PC
• Bus Designs Include ARINC429, RS422, RS232, CCITT G711 G726 ADPCM, SMPTE 259/297, RS343, RS170, SMPTE170M, NTSC, XGA, Panel Link, DVI, Fibre Channel, FC-AV, ARINC 817, ARINC818, STANAG3350, SCSI, PCMCIA, ISA, PCI
• Chip Level Designs Utilizing VHDL, Synopsis, and Various Vendor Based Tools for Gate Array ASIC, FPGA, CPLD and PLD

Analog Circuit Card Design

• Operational, Instrumentation, and Isolation Amplifiers for Signals Down to the Microvolt Range
• Schmitt Triggers, Peak Detectors, Phase Locked Loops, Precision Rectifiers, AGC Circuits, Servo Amplifiers, and Precision Clamps
• Temperature Sensing and Control Circuits to 0.1°C
• Linear Regulated Power Supplies, Low Current Switching Regulated Supplies, DC Converters
• Sensors & Signal Conditioning
• Differential and Single-ended Audio
• Linear and Switching Power Supplies
• NEC mPD78F, Motorola S12, and PIC micro controllers

PCB Layout Design

• Existing Experience in Many Systems
• Incorporation of Design Guidelines and Practices
• Work with Vendor’s Preferred Parts Lists and Library
• Verified Ability to Work Remotely
• Tracking Requirements to Parts
• PCB Layout for EMC and Noise Reduction
• Designed PCBs with up to 20 Layer Boards Including Micro-via Designs

Mechanical Packaging, Analysis, and Drafting

• Strong Background in Executing Designs Meeting Thermal, Shock, Vibration, and Reliability
• Skills in Working Complex, High Heat Dissipation Designs in Demanding Environments
• Designs Combine EMI packaging Techniques Assuring EMC Compatibility
• Experience with
  • Thermal Planes/Heat Frames
  • Chassis Heat Exchangers/Cold Wall Designs
  • Various Chassis Construction Techniques
• Designs that Take all of Your Requirements into a Complete Design: Thermal, Vibration, Shock

Hardware Test, Verificatio, and Validation

• DO-160 D/E, MIL-STD-461Certification Testing and Support
• Test Plans, Procedures, Test Support, Reports, Custom Software Tools
• Environmental, EMI, Lightning, HIRF
• Test Engineering
• Hardware Systems Engineering, Requirements Management, V&V Test Plans/Procedures
• DO-254 Verification, Elemental Analysis, HSLA, MATHCAD Circuit Analysis and Verification

Design Tools Utilized

• Mechanical Packaging
  • Unigraphics NX3, NX4
  • Catia
  • ProE
  • AutoCAD
  • SolidWorks 2007
  • Ansys, Cosmos for analysis
• Circuit Design and Analysis
  • OrCAD Schematic Capture
  • PSpice
  • MathCAD
  • Mentor Graphics
  • DX Designer
• Circuit Board Layout
  • OrCAD
  • Mentor Graphics

System Review

• Belcan GRDC has an expert in atmospheric radiation effects on aircraft equipment and systems.
  • This Phenomena can have Severe Impacts on Nuclear, Aircraft, and Medical Systems (Complete Disruption of Systems)
  • Experience Includes Broad Research on Radiation
  • Consulting Services to Many Industries
• Belcan GRDC has an extensive background in hardware and software development, and verification for aircraft systems.
  • Design Assurance Level A hardware (DO-254)
  • Design Assurance Level B software (DO-178)
  • Processes in-place to assure complete compliance to all directives and requirements.