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With the rise of Digitalization, there has been a consequent increase in the amount of digital data that is processed, stored and transmitted. However, the main challenge for HW designers is with the design, especially with PCB layout, in such a way that top-notch signal integrity is ensured without skyrocketing the PCB fabrication costs.  

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Product Design

From miniature wearable devices to complex system designs, Happiest Minds is a one-stop-shop for any electronic product design requirement. A firm believer of first time right designs, we follow proven practices that ensure superior product quality, extended availability and high fault coverage. We undertake design of products such as:

  • Single board computers: PC/104, 3.5” SBC, Industrial PC etc
  • System on Modules and carrier boards: COM Express, SMARC, Qseven etc
  • Wearable devices
  • IOT gateways
  • Healthcare devices
  • Servers, Storage solutions
  • Data acquisition I/O boards
  • Industrial control systems
  • Protocol Analyzer boards, Analytical instruments
  • Networking devices (Wired/ Wireless) – Modems, Routers, Switches, DSLAM etc
  • Multi-board System design
  • Power Electronics: AC-DC/DC-DC power supplies, Inverters, UPS, Solar power conversion
Board Design Services

From devising architecture to manufacturing, Happiest Minds offers a complete portfolio of Hardware Design Services for Single board design, Multi-board system design, Mixed Signal board (Analog and Digital), Processor/Micro-controller based designs, FPGA based designs, Reference designs/ Evaluation platforms, Power optimized designs, Small form factor designs, High density boards. Our board design services include:

  • Feasibility Analysis: Technical feasibility, BoM cost feasibility
  • Hardware board design: Schematics and PCB Layout development
    1. High speed interfaces: 100G Ethernet (25G CAUI), PCIe Gen 3, SAS-3, PCIe Gen 5, HDMI 2.0 and similar
    2. Wireless/ RF interfaces: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, LoRa, 3G, LTE etc
    3. Analog and Mixed signal boards
    4. Multi-Layer high-speed boards. Hybrid Stack-up with Rogers/ Megtron 6 and FR408 dielectric
    5. Rigid-Flex high speed boards.
  • Simulation: Pre & Post Layout Signal Integrity analysis, Thermal Simulation, PI Simulation
  • Reliability Analysis: FMEA Analysis, MTBF prediction
  • Prototyping: PCB Fabrication & Assembly
  • Testing: Board bring-up, Engineering Validation Tests, Design Verification Tests
  • Sustenance: Cost reduction, Obsolescence management, Feature enhancement
  • EMI/ EMC and Regulatory certifications: BIS, WPC, CE, FCC, RoHS, ESD, Safety, Environmental Tests
  • Production handover, Pilot production and Production support
Firmware Design Services

Software is an integral part of most electronic products today. From small footprint, power optimized firmware to safety-critical, real time applications, Happiest Minds develops software for all kinds of electronic devices. We have software development expertise in various platforms like Embedded Linux, VxWorks, Nucleus, QNX, FreeRTOS, uClinux, Proprietary RTOS, Android, Windows Embedded, ThreadX etc. Our service offerings include:

  • Boot loader development / BIOS Customization
  • Device driver development/Diagnostics
  • Board Support Packages (BSP)
  • OS Porting / OS Migration
  • Protocol stack porting / integration
  • Application Software development/ porting/ integration
  • Cybersecurity
  • IOT Edge/ Gateway
  • Feature enhancement
  • UX / UI Design
  • Mobile application development
  • Production Test Automation/ Test Software
FPGA Design Services

Happiest Minds has expertise in developing FPGA based designs using devices ranging from low density CPLDs to multi-million gate FPGAs/ SOCs. Our design team has profound experience working with FPGAs from leading vendors such as Actel, Intel, Lattice and Xilinx. Our end-to-end capability in FPGA design and quick development cycle positions us to be the right partner for any FPGA based design activity. Our FPGA design services includes:

  • RTL and Test bench design (VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog)
    • High speed protocols – PCIe Gen 1/2/3/4/5, NVMe 1.3, Gen Z, CXL, DP2.0, HDMI, Aurora, SRIO, GbE, 10GbE
    • External Interfaces – SPI, I2C, LPC, ISA, PCI, CAN, GPMC, ADC, DAC
    • On chip interfaces – APB, AHB, AXI3, AXI4lite, AXI4 streaming/memory mapped, Avalon streaming/memory mapped
    • Memory – NAND, NOR, DDR3, DDR4, HMC, HBM
    • Soft Processor IPs – NIOS II, Microblaze
  • Functional and timing simulation
  • Platform migration
  • Resource optimization (Logic, I/O, Speed)
  • IP core development
  • Glue logic design
  • 3rd party IP core integration
  • ASIC prototyping in FPGA
FPGA/ASIC Verification and Validation

Our team of expert verification engineers have successfully delivered projects in diverse domains like Networking, Storage, Military, Aerospace, Industrial, Test & Measurement and Consumer electronics. Our portfolio comprises of ASIC and FPGA verification at system as well as subsystem level with proven capabilities in achieving 100% code coverage and functional coverage in IP and SoC verification. Below is our verification portfolio:

  • Test bench architecture and test plan creation
  • Test bench design and development – Feature extraction, Bus functional models, Protocol drivers, sequencers, monitors and checkers
  • Test case development and execution
  • System / SoC / IP / Subsystem / Block level verification
  • Design/ Development based on VHDL/ Verilog/ System Verilog/ UVM/ OVM
  • Assertion based verification
  • Code coverage and Functional coverage
  • Perl / Shell / Python / Makefile script development
Mechanical Design Services

Our Mechanical design team helps to realize the right enclosure or mechanicals required for a product, considering the aesthetics, cost, cooling requirements, durability, ruggedness, safety aspects etc. Our capabilities include designing of Rackmount Chassis, DIN rail systems, Desktop Enclosure, Handheld Enclosure, Box type Enclosure, NEMA Enclosure, and Rugged Enclosure. Some of the design services we offer are:

  • Industrial design
  • Conceptual drawing
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • Sheet metal / Plastic enclosures
  • Drawing format conversion
  • Packaging / Carton / Label design
  • Thermal design and cooling solutions
Embedded system/Application software

Happiest  Minds provides design services  for all the  software requirements of  products, taking care of activities starting from architectural design, coding, testing and software maintenance. Some of the software layers we support are:

  • Board Support Package for a variety of processor architectures (PPC, ARM, x86) and OS families (Linux, VxWorks, Android, FreeRTOS and other lightweight/special purpose RTOS)
  • Device Drivers for peripherals
  • Test and diagnostic software
  • Communication protocols- wired and wireless
  • Industrial protocols
  • Embedded UI Designs

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