Hardware Development

Hardware design represents our core business. We are a strategic partner for the big companies in the avionic, space, military and naval industry. Our hardware department manages all the prototype production phases, from the feasibility analysis to the final production. We support our customers all over the engineering phases, specifications drawing-up, documentation, electronic boards production, certificates compliant with the specific requirements. Design phase is completely internalised. Our trusted partners allow us to produce high quality boards. Our team is made by firmware specialists able to work with several embedded environments. Design and production phases are managed and documented in line with specific quality standards, which require proprietary templates or templates owned by our clients. Our R&D area is provided with several test and measurement instruments, an electronic lab and a warehouse with dedicated military area. Everything is compliant with the newest industry laws and requirements.

Hardware

Our specialists have been developing technical knowledge and capabilities for the manufacturing of electronic systems able to integrate the most advanced technologies. Our expertise concerns both analogical and digital hardware manufacturing.

Design

Design activities are carried out internally with the production of electric boards and PCB routings on Mentor and Cadence environments. This phase is supervised by specialists skilled in failure analysis for the documentation FMEA and FEMCA. We have experience in the design of flight electronics and cards suitable for operation and storage in thermal vacuum and extreme environments. Our main design activities are:

Feasibility analysis and support for specification drawing-up
Wiring diagrams
PCB routings
Product or system specifics analysis and definition
Hardware design of analogical, RF, digital applications
Hardware design of board based on PIC, FPGA, CPLD, ARM, SOC
Flight electronics design
Process or product FMEA and FMECA analysis

Production

We have been collecting experiences and knowledge related to storage issues, reliability over the time and electronic board production processes. These expertises lead us to an efficient production process and to a low non-conformity rate. We storage material according to avionic and military standards and requirements. Our production services are:

Prototyping and pre-series production
Small and medium volumes production
Certified production processes according to military /avionic/aerospace standards

Certificates

Certification activity characterizes all our systems. CE marking, vibration test, climatic test, electromagnetic compatibility and electric safety are part of our expertises. We can support our customers in issues related to marking CE, homologations and industry certification. We also supply CE certification services for third parties’ products and systems.

Firmware

We develop firmware embedded for FPGA and CPLD in Intel/Altera and Xilinx environment. We develop proprietary firmware on FPGA, which implements standard protocols likes PCI, PCIe, Bluetooth, Channel Link, Ethernet. We realize embedded Software on ARM and PIC processors; drivers in Microsoft environment for board with PCIe and USB interfaces. We have experience in Linux Embedded systems.

Development

We have experiences with the main embedded development tools, such as:

Intel Quartus Prime
Xilinx ISE
Texas Instrument Code Composer

We develop specific firmware for application in military DO standard and related documents.

Testing

We provide support for the writing of procedures and related documentation for validation tests according to military and avionic standards.

Test Systems

Unit testers and systems for Aerospace and other applications

Saitec test system design continuously looks for the best combination between high modularity and high specialized HW and SW architectures. On one hand, the design phase is finalized to meet our customers’ requirements, which usually ask for highly customized specifics; on the other hand, this phase has to follow already developed HW and SW modules, ensuring the same operations, especially in terms of MMI. This guarantees an economic advantage for the customer not only at the purchase moment, but also in terms of training, re-configurability on different programs or on different phases of the same program.

Due to the modular design and manufacturing approach, some units are made as stand-alone modules, such as Saitec PDU - Power Distribution Unit.

Attention to details

Test systems realized by Saitec are involved in a continuous improvement plan based on the information collection and analysis. Data and information registered in the technical documents used by the assistance and maintenance service, together with customers observations and suggestions, are fundamental in order to establish and implement the corrective actions to improve products quality. This process leads to the attention for some details, such as the supporting embrasures for connectors protection, the rings for guiding the cables realized to avoid different interferences, buttons and switches protected to avoid unexpected drive, tool trey, user manual and other documents.

Quality certified

Saitec Quality Management System is certified according to the Aerospace certification EN9100:2018 and all the processes involved in the test systems development realized by Saitec are controlled and certified according to this standard. The validation activity is carried out according to the system requirements plan, in order to guarantee the certification of product conformity to requirements.

Safety

Saitec test systems are CE certified and conformed to electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) required according to EN 61326-1 and EN-61010-1 standards, applicable to measure, control and lab use of low voltage systems. Saitec certifies its test systems in compliance with (CE) n.1907/2006 standard, known as “REACH” (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of Chemicals). This, together with the attention to the ergonomics of the operating station, represents the guarantee of Saitec-s commitment to the protection of health and safety, both for products and people.