Electronic Design Services
When off-the-shelf tech just doesn’t cut it, you need a solution built specifically for your application. That’s where bespoke electronic design comes in.
Whether you’re after a simple control circuit or need support delivering a complex, multi-layer, multi-board project, you’ll get a tailored, cost-optimised design that does exactly what you need it to without compromise. From concept and design to prototyping, assembly, and full production, every stage is covered with precision and care.
By partnering with DSL, you get to stay focused on what you do best while we handle the design, development, and delivery of your electronic solution. It’s a true collaboration, designed to keep your project moving smoothly and on schedule.
With a proven electronic design process shaped by years of experience, DSL helps you hit your quality, cost, and timeline goals, even when the pressure’s on. Because when the stakes are high, you need a partner who delivers. Every time.
Our Electronic Design Experience
The DSL Electronic Design Team has a wealth of experience in all areas of embedded, industrial and electronic design, which includes specific capabilities in Design For eXcellence (DFX), Design for Manufacture (DFM), Design for Test (DFT) and Design for Assembly (DFA). Our strengths lie in our years of multi-vertical market designs and in our ability to embrace new technologies without a steep learning curve.
Building a proof-of-concept (POC) is an important part of the electronic design process. Without hard evidence that a product can be made and is useful in the real-world scenario, companies risk time and money on manufacturing a product which provides no real value to the user. At DSL we offer a range of development kit solutions that make evaluating and developing with sometimes tricky embedded hardware much easier.
Types of Electronic Design
We have a vast pre-prepared component library that makes our Electronic Design service efficient and cost effective. We invest in the very latest tools, such as the Altium suite, and all design work is undertaken by highly qualified engineers (including DFM & DFT), who understand designing for often extreme environments, to make sure the subsequent manufacture of the solution is optimum.
As part of our design process we always create prototypes once the board design and layouts have been approved, before moving into the product manufacture stage. These prototypes are evaluated using our onsite environmental testing facilities, such as thermal cameras to identify and potential hotspots. We offer rapid build services, particularly for projects working on short turn-around times.
DSL are Experts in Electronic and PCB Design
Environmental Testing and Manufacture?
We have invested heavily in our own environmental testing facilities which now includes EMC emissions, vibration, temperature and humidity. For example, we have an Environmental Temperature Chamber and thermal imaging guns, so that we can run multiple temperature scenarios, even including sine wave continuous testing between low/high extremes. Environmental testing is a key part of our process and we offer our customers free use of these facilities too.
We can manage the entire electronic design and manufacturing process from managing and updating software versions, ensuring high assembly quality, system testing and managing component obsolescence. Often clients choose to use us so that they don’t need to invest the time or resource in this process themselves and can focus their efforts on their valuable core competencies.
Benefits of using our Electronic Design Services
Certification and approvals can be one of the biggest headaches within the electronic design process. When DSL are involved, however, we can take that stress away and often undertake these approvals without any involvement from our clients. We manage the certification process – whether it’s product specific (i.e. CE, EMI) or managing client’s universal approval requirement (i.e. UL), so that our clients can focus on that they do best and let us do the hard work.
Whilst we’d all love to specify designs from a wish-list, the reality is re-designs are often driven from an urgent need to replace an obsolete PCB, invariably within an approved/certified product where everything outside that re-design must remain static. Based in the UK, we have spent over 20 years designing drop-in replacements and managing obsolescence effectively to ensure our clients products operate effectively for years to come.
Electronic design and Customisation
We also offer flexible customisation options across our entire product range to offer the benefits of bespoke electronic design, without the prohibitive design costs.
All our Single Board Computers (SBCs) and peripheral modules can be customised by adding new or removing superfluous functionality. PCB shape and size can all be modified and our range of panel PCs,
Industrial PCs and Industrial Displays can be both functionally and visually customised. Also, we are able to modify and customise existing BIOS configurations to adapt products to exactly fit our client’s needs. Also, thanks to our partnership with Insyde Software we can also create specialised BIOs for all our bespoke hardware designs.