Project planning & management
The realization of customized products and services requires a detailed planning of all the development steps and is carried out by specialists in different technical areas, integrated and complementary. Project requirements and life cycle are managed through detailed product plans and technical data collection, with particular emphasis on documentation management.
The use of sophisticated electronic archiving tools allows the efficient development of co-design activity, through cooperative integration of internal technical resources with the customer’s organization along all the duration of the project. The project evolution is followed through management tools, such as GANTT and planning systems, and it is constantly traced out to allow a continuous control of the costs and resources.
Hardware Development
The Harware Development teams are involved in the design of microelectronics applications, radiofrequency controls, programmable circuits (FPGA – CLPD), optoelectronics and power electronics applications, as well as in the PCB layout and industrialization activities.
This phase is particularly focused on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), on manufacturability (DFM), on testability (DFT), as well as on Lead Free processes and ROHS directive accomplishment.
Our technologies are applied in several application areas and include components and systems, utilized on power management devices, on telecom and the electromedical equipments, on automotive applications (dashboards and body control units), on appliance and access controls and on the automatic paytoll systems.
Instruments and processes in place are:
- VHDL development and simulation
- Modeling and simulation
- Risk assessment and reliability analysis (FTA and MTF)
- Failure effect analysis (Design FMEA e FMECA)
- Schematic entry and electronic CAD for the PCB layout
- EMI-EMC test laboratories including anechoic rooms, RF spectrum analyzer, network analyzer, AWG, etc.
- CAM, DFT and DFM in-house developed Software
Software Embedded Controls
The acquired know how in this area is focused on the development of firmware on various microprocessor 8,16, 32bit and DSP based platforms.
The software is projected on dedicated development and emulation-platforms using C/C++ for embedded, assembly languages and automatic embedded code generators. Projects include the development of PC-based software for optimizing and interfacing embedded systems. Methods and instruments:
- Model based development
- Teamwork development
- Real-time process analysis
- Dynamic code analysis (black box and white box testing)
- Functional safety evaluation of electronic systems
Software and Automation Projects
Selcom Group takes advantage of competence in system know-how for: development of industrial automation (PLC, motion, sensor-systems, meccatronic-systems, vision, robotics, field-bus) and Software applications (Client-Server/Multi Tier, Industrial IT, process data collection, HMI), automation, automatic test-automation, SPC, Vision-systems, Inspection systems for quality and diagnostics, automatic fast-pay systems and Video surveillance systems.
Methods and instruments used on the different applications:
- Analysis of requirements
- Model-based development
- Project FMEA
- IEC1131 languages
- Teamwork and source-version control
- Object-orientation
- UML
- SCADA
- WEB-based development
- Visual platform oriented development for C/C++/C#/Basic and Pascal
- SQL Open Database Connections