Engineering

Our design and engineering team brings value to the product development process, working at virtually every stage of the design cycle from a design concept on a napkin to prototyping to volume production.

Mechanical Design

Electrical Design

Test System Design

Software/Firmware Dev.

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Mechanical Design

Serving up an impressive offering including guidance and services in new product development, SolidWorks design, and 3D custom printing. Specializing in design safety devices, communication systems, wearable devices, test fixtures, enclosures, wire harnesses, and cable assemblies.

  • SolidWorks Design
  • New Product Development
  • 3D Printing
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Electrical Design

Our team of experts has the experience required to meet the highest electrical design standards. Our breadth of experience spans multiple market segments, including defense, industrial, medical, and transportation.

  • Schematic
  • PCB Layout
  • Bill of Materials (BOM)
  • Assembly Drawings
  • Test Specifications
  • Production Support
  • Design For Manufacturing (DFM)

Specialties

  • FPGAS
  • Wireless & Sensor
  • Micro-controllers
  • Antennas
  • Custom Analog

Test Systems Design

Providing functional or bed-of-nails tester development services for boards that we manufacture. Our experienced engineering team designs your tester to meet your test specification requirements.

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Software/Firmware Development

Our software engineers write embedded firmware and software to control the most simple and complex of electronics including advanced robotics, sensors, wireless, and much more.

Embedded Tools

  • NXP MCUExpresso and Freescale Kinetis.
    • Focusing on the Kinetis family of Arm Cortex-M0 and ARM Cortex-M4 processors.  KL03, K6xF, K2x families.
  • Eclipse
  • IAR ARM Compiler
  • IAR Visual State
  • Microchip MPLAB X IDE
  • ARM CMSIS
  • GNAT for Ada
  • Older tools, only for maintenance
    • ROMDOS by Datalight and Microsoft

Applications/ Libraries Created

  • Cubic spline calibration
  • Linear interpolation calibration tables
  • FIR filters
  • IIR filters
  • Serial/network protocols and communications
  • Modbus
  • C Safe strings replacing legacy libraries
  • Temperature controls for plastic molding
  • Gas absorption signal analysis
  • PC/104 product libraries
  • Sensors: thermocouple, thermistor, pressure, vacuum, gas
  • Recipe files
  • Data logging
  • Internet data communications and data delivery
  • PID and other closed-loop controllers
  • Linux kernel drivers
  • Flash storage management
  • Auto-code generators

Embedded Components

  • FreeRTOS
  • LWIP  TCP/IP stacks
  • ARM CMSIS
  • ARM Cortex-M0, ARM Cortex-M4, PicoBlaze (Xilinx), Mico8 (Lattice), 8051, PIC18, PIC17, x86, TMS320C50/C54, Z80, 6800, 6502, 1802.
  • PEG GUI toolsa212

Languages

  • C / C++
  • C#
  • Python
  • Visual Basic
  • Power Basic
  • TCL
  • Lua
  • Ada2012

Memberships

emphasizing our commitment to continuous improvement

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Why Pro-Active Engineering Stands Out

We are a full-service Electronics Manufacturing Service (EMS) provider. We are a small business that gets things done. Our roots are in electrical engineering and we provide our customers with the flexibility that large companies lose track of. Our ingenuity and grit have led to the mastery of complex boards designs and assembly requirements.

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