Electronics - Software - Products

Company CV

Profile

Founded in 2000, Chapel Design is an independent consultancy with practical experience of electronic hardware and software design across a broad range of applications within the industrial, automotive and communications sectors. Chapel Design has a track record of delivering innovative solutions to challenging problems on time and to budget.

Objectives

To build long term partnerships with customers by providing engineering resources in a professional and cost effective way and always considering the wider picture. 

To keep abreast of technology and always be in a position to provide the most appropriate solutions to customers requirements.

To act with integrity at all times and give full visibility of project costs and timescales.

Skills & Experience

Chapel Design has acquired a solid base of skills and experience over a number of years of product development. This section highlights these skills and experience:-

 Application Areas

  • Automotive Telematics & Diagnostics
  • Asset Tracking
  • Wireless Communications
  • Healthcare
  • Production Test
  • Building Services
  • Aerospace & Defence

Electronic Design

  • High Speed Digital
  • Analog & Mixed Signal
  • Low Power
  • FPGA (Altera, Xilinx, Actel)
  • Interfacing; Digital & Analogue
  • Signal Conditioning
  • RF Development & Test

Microprocessor Systems

  • ARM7, CORTEX, PIC, H8, Power PC
  • Memory & Storage Systems
  • Bus Systems; Standard & Proprietary

Radio Communications

  • M2M (Machine to Machine), ISM Band
  • Bluetooth
  • Wireless LAN
  • GSM, GPRS
  • Multi-Radio Systems, Co-existence

PSU & Battery Management

  • Switching & Linear Supplies
  • High Efficiency & Low Noise
  • Battery Charging & Management
  • Custom Battery Solutions

GPS

  • Location & Tracking Systems
  • Assisted GPS (A-GPS)

Audio

  • Audio Signal Conversion, CODECs
  • Amplifiers
  • Radio Voice Communications

 System Design

  • System & Architectural Design
  • Requirements Capture
  • Technical & Commercial Feasibility

Embedded Software Design

  • Real Time Embedded Software
  • 'C' & Assembler
  • Proprietary Operating Systems
  • Communication Protocols
  • Audio & Video Processing
  • User Interfaces
  • Video Display Systems
  • Built In Test (BIT)

Application Software

  • Commercial, Industrial & Scientific
  • Database Schema & Optimisation
  • Reporting & Analysis Tools

User Interfaces

  • Custom Keyboards & Displays
  • Input Devices
  • Software User Interfaces

Production & Test

  • Design for Test (DFT)
  • Design for Manufacture (DFM)
  • Production Test System Design
  • Production Support
  • High & Low Volume, UK & offshore

Product Approvals

  • Design & Testing for EMC
  • CE, R&TTE, Safety (EN60950)
  • Automotive VCA 'E' Marking
  • Wireless Approvals
  • Bluetooth Qualification
  • Foreign Market Approvals

Project Management

  • Full Turn-Key Product Development
  • Project Planning & Costing
  • Production Management