Design Services

Fixed Price Contracts
Wavemaker Technology offer easy and visible management by setting out clear deliverables at the start of any contract. All timescales are supported with defined transparent billing and payment cycles which deliver an extremely competative, cost effective solution.

Typical Projects

• Researching new components, solutions and translating concepts into technical specifications
• Independent design reviews of RF and mmWave hardware
• Recommending an alternative for obsolete parts and designs
• Prototype testing and design validation
• Provide upgrade strategy in response to changing specifications
• Solving production design issues and implementing automated testing
• Subcircuit component design and simulation including MMIC layout and FPGA definition
• Full project implementation from concept to manufacture

Consultancy
Wavemaker Technology Ltd has over 40 years of design experience and is able to provide you with all the advice and help you need to achieve a successful outcome. Our aim is to build a strong client partnership offering hands-on experience, design skills and project management to provide a cost effective solution. An affordable and timely implementation will be achieved through integral proposal creation and progression through agreed project milestones.

Concept and Design

• Architecture development and system planning
• RF and mmWave hardware design
• MMIC layout
• Circuit simulation
• FPGA VHDL RTL coding

Manufacture and Test

• MMIC implementation
• PCB design and layout
• Design for manufacture and testability
• Test
• Interfacing

Available Tools

Simulation tools

• ADS by Keysight
• HFSS by Ansys
• Microwave studio by CST
• MatLab by MathWorks

Hardware tools

• PADS PCB design software by Mentor Graphics
• Vivado FPGA RTL VHDL design software by Xilinx

Pmod Devices

Complementing the Digilent range of prototyping development accessories, these Pmod products can interface to a wide range of Xilinx FPGA devices. Wavemaker Technology Ltd offer a range of development PCBs each supplied with RTL VHDL source code for quick integration into a FPGA development module like the Digilant Basys 3. All pmod devices are £100 and shipped with full documentation, VHDL source code and PCB schematics.

GaN FET Half bridge
A single 3v3 logic input which drives a half bridge EPC Gallium Nitride FET configuration with integral GaN drivers and high side power supply. Suitable for prototyping audio class D amplifiers or power supply switchers.

Audio A2D
An audio analog to digital converter integrated with single ended to differential input buffer. Four times over sampled data with 24 bit quality two channels and selectable cofiguration for I2C or DSP interfacing.

Manufacturing facilities

Prototyping Equipment

• Reflow oven (Qinsi)
• Rework station (Pace)
• Microscope (AmScope)

Test equipment including

• Spectrum analyser (Anritsu MS2602)
• Oscilloscope (R&S HMO3004)
• Power supply (R&S HMP4040)

Reckoners & Calculators

• Atten Pad calculator
  • Attenuator Pad calculator, this table lists the E24 series resistor values required to make a "Tee" or "Pi" attenuator network. For each integer dB attenuator value in the range 1 to 20dB, the calculated loss is also provided
• Phase Noise
  • The A2D converter phase noise jitter clock reckoner. A graph of the phase noise required for a given signal to noise ratio and frequency. The plot axies are signal to noise resolution (converter effective number of bits) against the full scale sine wave frequency.
• dBm Volts
  • Calculator to convert dBm into watts, volts pk to pk and volts RMS

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