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AirBorn Electronics -- Custom design services
AirBorn Electronics design microcontroller circuitry and firmware for many industries - from Air conditioning to Weighscales. With custom designed products the ownership of the circuitry and software design are transferred to the customer upon payment. Our designs provide circuits, parts lists, PCB diagrams and source code in a complete documentation package.
How we, at AirBorn Electronics, do our job better -
- We have 15 years of successful electronics design experience
- Our work is inventive, creative, and up-to-date
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We have a structured step-thru technique for designing boards
- We have templates for each step - for speed accuracy
- The documentation is done at the same time as the design work - therefore the documentation is good and thorough
Jobs are quoted. If a project consists of several interdependent job steps, the first stage(s) may be quoted and then the remainder of the project estimated.
Delivery
Typical simple embedded microprocessor products take, very roughly, 8-16 weeks from specification to finished prototypes. Complicated firmware may take longer.
Quality
An electronic design goes through a debugging stage - this is the main reason for building prototypes - during which any problems are fixed. It is rare that we deliver a design which has an undiscovered major bug or problem.
Designs can always be made to work, the only situation in which a project might fail to be recoverable is when the circuit is breaking new ground with untested techniques, - in which case the work is experimental circuit development rather than straight product design.
Availability
AirBorn Electronics runs projects in parallel. Our availability is not exclusive - we can start work when you are ready.
Ownership
Most of our projects transfer ownership of the PCB design and firmware to the customer upon final payment. With joint-venture and manufacture-only projects, the Intellectual Property remains with AirBorn Electronics.
Confidentiality
You may have us sign a confidentiality agreement contractually limiting our disclosure of information you supply to us, - the standard Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) used when larger companies subcontract designs to others. We prefer fair NDAs that cover documents specifically marked "confidential", and terminate at the end of the project with the option of customer asking for return of the documents. Anti-competitive protection can and should be achieved through copyright, registered design, patent and trademark. AirBorn Electronics can assist, if required, in design security by using copy resistant microcontrollers.
AirBorn Electronics - the type of work we do
Most of our work is subcontract for other electronics companies. We design a broad spectrum of products, and the designing of the products is what we do well. Most of our clients specialize in serving particular niche markets - and that is what they do well. It makes a lot of sense for such a company to subcontract the actual design work to someone with more experience and expertise (like AirBorn). The client then needs to be skilful in setting the specification, so the final product accurately reflects what will sell in their niche market. This is why we spend so much time on this site explaining how to write a specification.
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AirBorn Electronics specialties are microprocessor based electronics, serial communications and reliable, cost effective real time software.
- For applications requiring small microcontrollers - AirBorn Electronics uses 8051 family microprocessors (the most prolific on the planet). These range in size from the tiny Atmel AT89C2051, a 20 pin 2 kilobyte FLASH memory micro, (for which we also make a programmer), to the Philips P89C51RD family,
with up to 64kbyte of FLASH. The significant advantages of using this family of microcontrollers are their low unit price and the diversity of models available - many of which are second sourced supplied by alternative manufacturers.
- Serial communications - AirBorn Electronics projects regularly involve RS232, RS422 and RS485 interfacing, both to PC's, modems, and as stand-alone communications between microcontrollers. We have experience with the mechanics of serial communications - implementing protocols, error checking, addressing, buffering.
- Real time software - AirBorn Electronics real time software has been used to make robots move, control building plant, count coins & ballots, open doors... software is the heart of modern electronics, and we write good software.
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One special line of design work we do is Serial Data Conversion units - manufacturing an interface to existing equipment or protocol. Sometimes the requirement is for Serial to Serial conversion (the unit pictured does this function), but more often one side is serial, and the other side is something special - e.g. a set of relays, a DTMF telephone dialling interface, or totalisator meters.
The Units pictured are one of a line of standard hardware products we make - they are protocol converters. This particular D25-D25 converter fits in a standard inline case and supervises a modem.
Custom units to manage protocol conversion are available to order. Also available Serial to parallel converter - program, circuit and assembler.
Quality custom electronics at the right price -
AirBorn Electronics: www.airborn.com.au
Phone: (61)(2)9925 0325
Mail: P O Box 1491, North Sydney, NSW 2059, Australia
Contact: Steven Murray, Manager
This page was last updated 01 Jan 2008