"Nuvation has been an excellent extension of our engineering team at SpeedInfo. Nuvation helped develop our wireless products quickly and efficiently, allowing SpeedInfo to focus our core team on other mission-critical priorities. They have a great work ethic, great breadth and depth of talent, and they're fun to work with!" -- SpeedInfo
Some of our clients have other support requirements beyond electronic product design. We are happy to assist on a case-by-case basis where we can add value and can make appropriate resources available.
Product Design Services :
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On-Site or Off-Site debug support
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Design Feasibility Analysis
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Comprehensive Design Reports
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Cost-Reduction Analysis
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Redesign to Lead-Free (RoHS/WEEE)
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Production Fulfillment
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Custom IP design retained by Nuvation but licensable to Client
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Co-funded product development with revenue and/or equity sharing
Project Examples
ODM/Product Fulfillment
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Designed dev kit for major European semiconductor firm
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Post-design validation, provided turnkey fulfillment services through our CM relationships
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Another client had a board-level vendor go EOL and we were uniquely able to negotiate IP release and provide ongoing fulfillment services
Product Line Consolidation
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Analyzed over 5,000 SKUs to create new product platform concept for over 10 product lines
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Consolidated 25 years of technology products into standardized platform
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Reduced complexity and for manufacturing, test, software, purchasing, inventory control, and board design
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Recommended EOL for certain features and low-volume, low-margin products
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Supported transition from in-house manufacturing to EMS
Venture Engineering
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Some founder or seed-funded clients require assistance with feasibility analysis, initial architecture planning, and credible engineering estimates
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Nuvation Design Reports have been found to improve probability of securing capital, add significantly to early stage valuation, and accelerate time-to-market
SWAT Teams
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One complex client design had suffered through 3 re-spins over 8 months and was still stuck
in a logjam
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We found a bug in a MCU vendor’s microcode and then progressed through remaining bring-up steps in a total time of under 3 weeks
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Higher-level functionality and Signal Integrity problems were identified and corrected
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We have excellent “swoopers” and tight relationships with the major semiconductor companies which often enables us to resolve perplexing issues in heroic fashion
