Hardware Engineering Services
The embedded-systems development team at FORTH, Inc. is your expert ally when it comes to hardware design and debugging. Call on us to help develop efficient solutions that require an intimate understanding of target hardware and application code, and of how to evoke the best performance from them both.
What we've done for others, we can do for you!
- Rapid prototyping lets you fine-tune your end-product to behave exactly the way you want — more easily and with fewer headaches.
- Extremely efficient use of hardware means your apps require less memory and less horsepower. Sometimes this means success despite severe hardware restrictions; it always results in lower per-unit cost and often yields other beneficial side effects, such as longer battery life for hand-held devices.
Use our contact form to tell us your requirements — we'll reply promptly!
Online case histories provide an overview of some projects we've helped to develop.
Our engineers have experience with a wide variety of microprocessors and microcontrollers, including: 1802, 6303, 8031, 8051, 8085, 8086, 80186/188, 80486, 8096, 80C196, i860, 6800, 6809, 68000, 68020, 68332, 68K, 68HC11, 68HC12, 68HC16, Z80, 64180, ARM, ColdFire, H8H, H8S, RTX2000, RTX2010, TI320C31.
We're familiar with many kinds of communication protocols, for example:
- peripheral (IEEE-488 and HP-IL for instrumentation, HP PCL for printers)
- industry-specific (Modbus, Allen-Bradley Data Highway, Opto-22 for process control; SECS for semiconductor fabrication; MDB for vending machines)
- TCP/IP
- security algorithms (SHA, RSA, DES)
Although much of what we do involves embedded systems and standalone devices, our software can interface to most popular operating systems, including DOS, Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
Call us or use our contact form — we'll be happy to discuss your next project and the ways we can contribute to its success.
