Lighting

The lighting sector is in full technological transformation from traditional lighting to LEDs that are in daily new applications; architectural lighting systems to those of primary lighting.

The current phase of transition is regularly followed and the technical design and implementation of the control devices is constantly updated and expanded with new ideas.

The design of the driver is always performed ad-hoc according to the particular specifications of integration required by each application.

Design and implementation of control circuits are continuously updated to support all new LED chip continually placed on the market.

The devices of interest are:

• miniaturized AC/DC power supply with embedded micro PFC
• control interfaces with standard and proprietary control (ie DALI, DMX)
• remote controlled lighting modules with embedded power control
• underwater lighting modules
• civilian use and self-powered lighting modules (ie exploiting solar energy)
  
• wireless powered LED modules
• micro-modules for indoor installation
• high power white and RGB LED modules

Wireless

The wireless industry is very extensive and always protagonist in research and development.

In addition to technical skills, are made ​​available to the customer specialized equipment for the development of devices operating up to 6.5 GHz.

for this sector has been equipped with a specialized laboratory vector network analyzer, RF signal generator, spectrum analyzer, calibrated antennas and shielded room.

If necessary tests are realized in anechoic room, functional tests in climatic chamber and impedance measures in the microwave range up to 20 GHz.

The combination of skills and availability of suitable instruments allow the development of radio frequency devices of all kinds, such as:

• remote controls for any application
• long range and low power remote control systems
• authentication devices
• custom data modem (determination of link budget)
• impedance marching circuits
• 2D and 3D antenna design
• performance evaluation through simulation tools
• RF design revisions
• indoor localization
• telemetry sistems

The technologies supported are numerous and constantly evolving:

• ISM sub-GHz
• WiFi 2.4 GHz e 5.8 GHz
• Bluetooth (all standards)
• ZigBee & WSN (Wireless Sensor Network)
  
• NFC & RFID
  
• GSM-GPRS
• WiMax
• Ultra Wide Band & Wirelss USB

Security

In the field of security and surveillance quality is built by two essential factors: the robustness of the hardware and software of the devices that make up the system.

The robustness is obtained realizing hardware circuits capable of operation in case of wide thermal excursions (for example in outdoor installations) and able to withstand intense electrical and electromagnetic interference (for example close to high voltage pylons, radio-TV and atmospheric phenomena).

As is well known, a good hardware project must be completed by an excellent firmware and software.

In devices of wireless security, the design, the realization and the development of appropriate communication protocols contains 50% of the quality of a plant and usually the algorithms of transmitting and receiving of radio data is proprietary (not standard).

Is very important that any device is designed in detail by supporting all phases of development, from concept, hardware, and firmware.

Also in this sector are numerous use cases, such as:

• wireless sensors for doors and windows
• stand-alone PIR and Microwave sensors
• bidirectional remote controls
• sensori stand-alone PIR e a microonde
• telecomandi bidirezionali
• devices of any kind (ie sirens, central expansions)
• radio stations
• smartphone and tablet interfacing
• remote control from PC
• audio/video management and routing
• stand-alone audio/video wireless sensors
• face recognition
• fingerprint and voice recognition
  
• voice synthesi embedded modules with
  
• voice recognition
• infrared barriers
• laser barriers
• microwave barriers

Industrial

The design of power circuits focuses on techniques of high density, in order to limit the use of wound components and reactive components which, typically, are large.

By using high switching frequency architectures, together employing appropriate magnetic planar circuits and concentred capacity, you can reach very high levels of power density and integration.

Also, thanks to these techniques, you will get very high industrial reproducible circuits, built in a very inexpensive way.

The design may also include several sessions of multiphysics simulation, obtaining the electromagnetic and thermal rendering of an entire system.

The solutions implemented are common both to applications of power supply (such as industrial power systems), both to industrial automation applications (such as actuating devices for electric motors and control axes).

The design support is very wide and includes in particular the following applications:

• AC/DC power supply with active PFC
• high power density and parallelable modules
  
• DC/DC converters for any application
• drives for BLDC, brushed and stepper motors
• drives for asynchronous motors
• multi-axis drives for ROBOT (position, torque, force control)
• DC/AC power inverters for solar energy conversion
• control units for power parameters monitoring