Summary： The 3rd party PCB design service
Xentronics is an electronic design & manufacturing consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia. With a small team of high-skilled hardware and firmware design engineers, we manage to offer clients a "one-stop-shop" for their electronic design solution, by offering full product life cycle support - from early conception, to prototyping and risk mitigation, to compliance testing and production, to end-of-life replacement and upgrading - we offer services for the entire process.
Rather than specialising in one specific field of electronics, our team manages to create disruptive, cost-effective, and high-quality products by maintaining a broader skillset within all the various fields of electronic design. Some of our capabilities specifically include:
Power Supplies
Low-voltage, high-speed power supply designs (i.e. 5V, 3.3V, 2.5V, 1.8V, etc.) for embedded systems
Medium-voltage power supply designs (12V, 24V, 48V, etc.) for entire system power, or a standalone product
Live power monitoring abilities in every product
Over-voltage, under-voltage, reverse-voltage, and over-current protection for all inputs to ensure a rugged product
Lithium-Ion/Lithium-Polymer and Lead-Acid battery system design, including protection circuitry for safe charging/discharging of cells
Analogue Circuitry
Custom sensor integration (temperature, light, pressure, etc.) and signal manipulation
Amplifier design for scaling, accuracy, or greater resolution improvements
Filter design for noise removal, anti-aliasing, and improved system performance
Simulation of system designs to ensure correct and functioning prototype on the first revision
Digital Circuit
Intra-board communication protocols such as I2C, SPI, I2S and USART
Inter-board communication protocols such as RS-232, RS-485/MODBUS, USB, and Ethernet
Utilising integrated sensors and devices
OLED/LCD/Display integration into a design, for user feedback and interaction
Embedded Systems
Time-critical peripheral utilisation (timers, PWM channels, input-capture and sampling)
Fast and memory effective implementation (DMA vs traditional polling methods)
Integrated Analogue-Digital crossover (ADCs and DACs, both internal and external)
External programming options, for making units field-upgradable
Safety integrity using watchdog timers and external EEPROM to ensure reliable self-checking of system performance
Internet of Things (IoT)
Bluetooth design solutions, for simple master-to-slave IoT control/sensing devices
Wi-Fi design solutions, for larger sensor array/networking IoT systems
Cellular design solutions, for remote and isolated IoT devices needing a global connection
GPS/GNSS design solutions, for positioning data availability
Antenna design and integration into products, for appropriately specified gains for particular applications
Schematic Capture
Using Altium Designer 19, and various circuit simulation spice tools, we provide an extremely high-quality schematic capturing service
By splitting up system elements into hardware "blocks", schematics are easily readable by those not involved in a project
Design notes, variants, and appropriate layout also allow even unqualified readers to understand the system functionality
Part numbering and ordering information is integrated right into the schematic, allowing easy bill-of-materials generation
PCB Layout
Using Altium Designer 19, and various PCB performance simulation tools, we also provide a high-quality PCB design service
Multilayer PCB design, from 1-layer for extremely cost-effective products, to 14 layer for extremely complex products
Surface-mount focused design, for better design-for-manufacturability as well as cost when it comes to production-scale manufacturing
Rigid, flexible, and rigid-flex PCB experience for dynamic capabilities regarding enclosure integration
Microwave design capabilities, including impedance controlling/watching, for high-speed signal integrity
VHDI experience, including blind/buried vias and via-in-pad technology for extremely space-constrained products
Consistent and constant use of 3D models within the PCB layout, to ensure no mechanical interferences component-to-component, or component-to-enclosure
High-voltage design experience (including meeting compliance standards), as well as high-current design experience
Design-for-EMC, aiming towards first-time compliance passing for a smoother production transition in the long-term
Assembly
With an in-house stencil applicator and reflow oven, we assemble prototypes ourselves to reduce cost and overheads
Ensures no errors in the assembly due to miscommunication between designer and assembler - since we are the same entity
Achieving IPC certification later in 2019, in order to further ensure quality products are supplied to clients
Board cleaning for maximum reliability during performance testing
Further adds to the speed and reliability of the product turnaround during the prototyping phases
