Review project requirements (feasibility study)
  • Document features and functions
  • Differentiate hard requirements versus trade-off areas
  • Proposal: If requirements are sufficiently clear, Ascenten prepares a proposal outlining the project scope, assumptions made, items needed from the customer, project deliverables, project logistics, along with time and cost estimates
Technical research :
  • Establish technical specifications
  • Research certification and approvals
  • Evaluate suitable technologies and licensing requirements
  • Establish preliminary block diagram
  • Estimate unit manufacturing cost
  • Evaluate R&D cost (Non-recurring engineering) and project schedule
Design and Development
  • Study of specific standards
  • Algorithm design and verification
  • Selection of electronic components
  • Engineering tradeoffs: cost/size/power/robustness/function
  • Document software architecture
  • Perform small scale trials, if any
  • Establish R&D test procedure
Prototype Development
  • Designing schematics
  • DFM analysis
  • Layout specifications, requirements, and design
  • Signal Integrity simulations
  • Product sketches and enclosure design
  • Mould, tooling, and mechanical parts development
  • Flow and thermal simulations
  • Fabricate prototypes
  • Functional, electrical, and reliability tests and review
  • To minimize prototype testing, Ascenten utilizes several modeling and simulation tools to identify potential problems before a prototype board is built. Different types of modeling include investigating overall system performance, timing analysis, logic simulation, analog circuit modeling, heat dissipation, and EMI radiation. Ascenten builds and tests prototypes to ensure products meet their requirements.
Pre-certification Model
  • Review test plans, layout, and manufacturability
  • Submission of sample to authorities for evaluation
  • Climatic and harsh conditions tests and review
Production Model (golden sample)
  • Engineering review on suitability
  • Freeze design
  • Freeze tooling and mechanical parts
  • Fabricate and deliver golden samples
  • With a final design tested and debugged, Ascenten can manage small pilot runs and perform field acceptance testing
Documentation and Delivery of IPs
  • Deliver a design description document
  • Deliver Test Plans and Results
    • R&D Tests and Results
    • Factory Acceptance Tests
  • Schematics, source codes, hex files, layout files
  • Tooling drawings
Production
  • Establish production procedure
  • Set up automated test bench, if necessary
  • Produce a pilot batch
  • Ramp up production
Warranty and future upgrades
  • Analyse statistical market performance
  • Establish upgrade items and schedule
Customer Feedback
  • Ascenten will conduct post project interviews to ensure your feedback is captured for future projects and to allow us to track quality metrics.

Success Story

  • Develop prototypes from Gerber files for an industrial product
  • Scope of Work:
    • Procurement of components
    • Planning layout of components
    • Automatic Pick & Place board assembly
    • Quality check
    • Embedded software testing
    • Prototype release
  • Implemented DLMS stack and metering objects in existing code while replacing a bulky communications standard, retaining functionalities and security features
  • Engagement was urgent due to customer sales deadlines
  • Successfully delivered working and tested code for an ultra-low-power microcontroller, including:
    • Porting DLMS objects for smart meter reading
    • GSM integration for wireless communication
  • Engagement: Onsite & Offsite, 24 weeks

Contact Us

We would really like to hear from you and answer any questions. Please email us at info1@ascenten.net
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