Engineering Design Services
Leverage FDI’s experience to meet deadlines and exceed expectations
When your embedded systems projects need some extra hands and minds, you can rely on FDI’s dedication to a job well done. We can work seamlessly with your team to provide as much or as little support as you need.
US-Based design, production, and technical support
Our Experience
From low-technology widgets to complex systems, FDI has designed a broad range of customer products – and some of these are still in the field, working reliably even after 20 years.
With decades of experience, FDI engineers know which components and designs provide the best results on the production line and in the field. We guide your concept and help you balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and time to market.
Our Expertise
Design
New product concepts with feasibility studies, cost analysis and architecture selection.
Redesign & migrate
Reimagine existing products for manufacturing, test and cost, or move off end-of-life silicon and displays without starting over.
Firmware, GUI & software
RTOS and bare-metal firmware, touchscreen interfaces, connectivity and PC or cloud companions.
Enclosures & packaging
Custom plastic, sheet metal or machined enclosures, designed together with the electronics.
Our Dedication to Quality
We value long-term relationships, and your success is important to us. When we partner with a customer it’s a life time commitment for us and we only succeed if we do so together.
Our experts are available when you are ready to migrate to your product’s next generation. Guaranteed, ongoing support is critical: just one reason why many of our customers have worked with us for more than 20 years.
Let us know how we can make your life easier!
Our Capabilities
We design on current platforms and still know the older ones, which matters when a field-proven product needs a sustaining engineer or a migration path.
| Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Processors | NXP (LPC546xx, LPC4357, LPC1788, and LPC4088) · Renesas RA (RA8 / M85, RA6, RA4, RA2), Renesas Synergy · STM32U5 and L5 (Cortex-M33) |
| Legacy | NXP (LPC2xxx, LPC3xxx, LPC11xx, LPC9xx ) · Renesas RX (RX100, RX200, RX62N, RX63N) · Renesas Synergy (S7, S5, S3, S1) · Atmel AT91 · TI Stellaris/Tiva C · 8051 families (NXP / Philips, Intel, Atmel) |
| Interfaces | Gigabit Ethernet and PoE · USB FS/HS/OTG · PCI Express · HDMI, LVDS, DisplayPort · RS-485 / Modbus · Wi-Fi, ZigBee, VHF/UHF RF |
| PCB Design |
BGA and µBGA · Surface Mount Technology · blind and buried vias · dual-sided active components · high-speed digital (differential pairs, SERDES, SGMII) · analog and RF layout · FPGA / CPLD |
| Software | |
|---|---|
| RTOS & OS | FreeRTOS · SAFERTOS · Eclipse ThreadX · µEZ® platform · Linux · Android |
| GUI | LVGL · SEGGER emWin · Eclipse ThreadX GUIX · Qt and Qt Creator |
| Connectivity | TCP/IP (lwIP) · TLS 1.3 · MQTT · AWS and Microsoft Azure · custom bootloaders for field updates |
| PC & Test | Windows apps (Qt) · device drivers |
| Tools | |
|---|---|
| IDEs | STM32CubeIDE · NXP MCUXpresso · Renesas e² studio · VSCode · IAR EWARM · Rowley CrossWorks |
| Debug | SEGGER J-Link, J-Link SDK, Ozone, RTT and SystemView |
| Design | PADS · Cadence Allegro · Altium |
| Production | FDI functional test software · cloud production monitoring · production programming |
Start from proven building blocks
Many custom designs begin with one of FDI’s own production-proven platforms, which shortens schedules and lowers engineering cost. Our µEZ GUI, SuRG, ΣyG and ELI families can be customized with fast IP tweaks, or used as the reference design for a new product. FDI also offers quickstart support, to get your application up and running fast.
Facing an end-of-life part?
We have moved products onto modern hardware and replaced discontinued displays, including porting a UI to a 3-color panel with LVGL, which also reduced application size. Contact us and we can talk about migrating your product.
