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Senior Design Engineer Steve Miller was working on an FPGA design project that required taking multiple video inputs and processing them in real-time through an FPGA. Some of the necessary computations involved comparing images in two parallel video streams.

In our last post, we discussed the Initial Design Engagement. During the first phase of a client project, we gather requirements, create design descriptions, prepare the Acceptance Test Plan and the Project Work Plan. Here are some common questions clients ask us about the process.

It is important to have a solid architecture early in the design process for successful electronic product development. Several factors need to be considered simultaneously including product features, development costs, product costs, schedule, technical feasibility, and risk management.

By now many people have heard of Angry Moose, the geeky game that draws crowds of engineers and fans wherever it goes. It’s a real-life version of a popular iOS game, but with a Canadian twist. The Beavers have stolen the Moose’s beer, and the Moose want it back.

Creating a great schematic is more than just producing a technically correct netlist. Your schematic should be organized in a way that’s easy for others to understand. Someone unfamiliar with the design should be able to pick up a schematic and get a good feel for design objectives.

In part 1 Principal Design Engineer Mark Bingeman shared some helpful tips for capturing a great picture of your electronic product design. Here is how you can improve the quality of your photo even further, after you've taken the shot.

This year’s additions of autonomous design, drive-by-wire capabilities, and the snazzy new tail worked beautifully. We also made some significant infrastructure upgrades such as adding dually wheels. While not as flashy, these modifications improved the load rating and reliability of the Fish.

Once you’ve completed a circuit board or product design, you will often want to take pictures of it. Sometimes it’s for marketing material or documentation purposes, and other times you’re proud of your work and you want a few pictures for posterity.

Highly Accelerated Stress Screening is a method for testing the reliability of a product by exposing it to stresses beyond what it would encounter in normal use. The testing is performed in an environmental chamber and can involve a variety of stresses.

Once autonomous driving was up and running we decided to also implement drive-by-wire, so that a person could also drive the Fish by remote control. The drive-by-wire design uses a Spektrum DX7s 2.4GHz transmitter and an AR8000 8-Channel DSMX receiver.