Custom Hardware Components

We develop custom hardware components according to your requirements and tailored to your environment. A particular area of expertise focuses on solutions for parallel testing with a variety of test subjects/channels.

Examples are:

• Testing system for controlling and monitoring test subjects with a variety of connections (e.g., automotive body controller)

  • 128 analog inputs with sampling rates of up to 1 MHz

  • 100 switching outputs (relays, open-drain, open-collector)

  • 10 CAN interfaces

  • 10 serial interfaces

  • 22 digital I/Os

• Testing systems with power sources for pulsing LEDs

  • up to 280 channels in a 19" rack

  • currents from 100 µA to 6 A

  • pulse durations from 1 µs to 10 s

• Testing systems for characterizing battery cells

  • up to 240 channels in a 19" rack

  • parallel charging/discharging of cells with up to 10 A per cell

  • measurement of cell voltage, capacity, and internal resistance

To implement these systems, we use among others:

• Embedded systems from National Instruments (PXI, cRIO, sbRIO)

• Microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics

• FPGAs from Xilinx

• High-precision analog-to-digital converters from Analog Devices

Already during the development, we pay attention to EMC-compliant hardware design. We verify the interference immunity and emissions of our devices in our in-house EMC laboratory.