Embedded Systems

DMC worked with a client in the farming industry who had been maintaining a legacy electronics and controller design created 20 years prior. The client reached out to DMC to analyze the design, operation, and industry competition of their existing system. DMC provided a detailed analysis of their current design as well as a presentation comparing several new design architectures considering manufacturing cost, development time, and performance and features.

DMC developed a WiFi-based lighting control system for a client in the entertainment industry allowing for wireless control of Digital Multiplex (DMX) and streaming Architecture for Controlled Networks (ACN) compatible lighting products.

SNOOZ is a white noise generating sound conditioner. The company got its start from a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. The SNOOZ device includes an adjustable speed, brushless DC motor-driven fan, capacitive touch buttons, indicator LEDs, and optional night-light LEDs. SNOOZ can also connect to a phone over Bluetooth LE where a user can adjust the fan speed and night-light LED brightness as well as set a timer that will turn SNOOZ off in the morning. The engineers at SNOOZ have deep expertise...

DMC designed an electronic gauge with extremely low power consumption for a client in the medical industry.

DMC worked with a leading company in the oceanography field to redesign their existing system to support additional satellite communication protocols. 

DMC worked with Dickson, a leader in temperature monitoring and mapping for pharmaceutical and healthcare markets, to design an internet-connected temperature logging tablet.

A client in the water industry wanted to add functionality to an existing product in order to expand into additional markets. They reached out to DMC to analyze their existing design as well as competing products and make recommendations on a development path for future products and features.

DMC designed an electronic gauge with extremely low power consumption for a client in the medical industry.

DMC helped several consumer products companies integrate bluetooth connectivity into their existing product lines by leveraging embedded development and programming experience to develop a proof-of-concept.

A client in the water treatment industry hired DMC to design a system allowing customers to manage water filtration systems across multiple locations. DMC developed a system to collect data from each filtration system and monitor their health both locally and remotely through the internet.

DMC worked with Chicago Dial Indicator (CDI), a leader in precision measurement devices to redesign their flagship electronic dial indicator. The previous platform was centered on an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) slated for obsolescence, necessitating a new part selection and design. The resulting low-powered system can handle high-speed data and includes connectivity to external devices over several interfaces, including USB Client, UART, Raw Signal Output, Mitutoyo Digimatic, and...

DMC developed an encapsulated DLL for sending specific commands to the client's proprietary hardware over the I2C bus. DMC's solution included reference code that shows examples of calls to the API and allows the client's end users to easily develop application interfacing with the proprietary hardware.

DMC programmed the controls for a multi-axis therapeutic bed, including coordinated motions, software safety algorithms, and high level engineering functions. For this project DMC provided all of the needed programming, deployment, and on-site testing. DMC also was able to assist in hardware troubleshooting and product life testing.

As one component of a Client's complete test system solution, DMC was required to design and assemble a 50 channel temperature sensor simulator.  The resulting system is capable of simulating a collection of thermistor-based temperature sensors with 8-bit precision and 1% accuracy with 600V isolation between channels.

DMC developed a set of J1939 protocol drivers for LabVIEW which are based on the NI-CAN channel API provided by National Instruments (NI).  DMC needed to interface to a customer's automotive ECU over CAN using the SAE J1939 protocol as part of an automated test application.  Since the application was written in LabVIEW and the test station used NI-CAN hardware, the drivers were entirely written in NI LabVIEW.  The drivers provide functions at a layer above...