ADVICE Engineering Services

Advanced IC Engineering, Inc. has been designing Data Communication, Process Control Systems, Test and Monitoring products and providing both hardware and software engineering design and consulting services since our incorporation in 1989.  We enjoy solving problems and take pride in creating devices that work well.
Completing a project involves getting many details right the first time - we know how to do it without straining our client's resources.

Full Design Engineering - Need a new product developed fast? We provide full top-down design of complex systems or individual components of a system.

Reverse Engineering - Lost your design? Don’t be embarrassed, it happens! We can take a PC board and deliver schematics, new Gerber files, prototypes and assemblies.

Re-Engineering - Want to add new features, but have lost your in-house engineering capabilities or the design authority has moved on? We can take existing designs, update them and complete them.

Compliance Design Analysis - Getting ready to go for UL, CSA, FM, VDE, FCC certifications? We have the experience to take your product through the certification process and recommend corrections to help your unit pass.

Design Review - Need an independent outside opinion of a new product? We can provide engineering and manufacturing analysis of your new product during any phase of its design.

RoHS compliance - Need to make your product lead-free? We can find the right components to make that happen.

Supporting Services

• PC Board Design, Schematic Entry, and Layout
• Prototype Development
• Front panel design and development
  
• Electronics Manufacturing
• Software Application Development (Unix or Windows, Basic, C, C++)
• Device Driver Software (Assembly, C)
• Systems Engineering
• Project Management
• Systems Integration
• Electronics Repair
• Technical Documentation (Schematics to Brochures)
• Patent Development

Capabilities

PC Board Design, Layout, Manufacturing and Testing

• CAD and Mechanical
  • AutoCAD, AutoSketch
  • IntelliCAD
• Schematic Capture
  • Accell Tango Schematic II
  • OrCAD 3/4/7/9
  • ViewLogic
• PCB Layout
  • Accell Tango PCB plus and Route plus
  • Supports up to 12 layers, thru-hole and surface mount down to 0.1mm pitch
  • Other layout systems available
• PAL and FPGA
  • AMD Mach, Xilinx, Atmel, Lattice
• Our Lab is fully equipped with Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzer, VOMs, Milling Machine, CNC Router, Bench Power Supplies, Function Generators, PIC Development Systems, Voice Chip Development Systems, FPGA/PROM/Flash/Microcontroller programmers, 68000 Emulator, Digital Thermometers, and complete SMT rework stations, plus much more. 

Product Development

ADVICE has designed, developed and provided system integration services in development of a variety of successful commercial products.

Process Control Systems

• ADVICE invented patented features
• FM approved anti-arc safety systems

• Intelligent PID closed-loop managment of pressure and volume
• Monitors and compares redundant sensors

• Intelligent PID closed loop control (0-99000rpm)
• Safety interlocks, with self-preservation fault detection
• Uses ADVICE-developed fiber-optic transceivers

• 2-channels, with flow rate ratio management
• Windows GUI and flexible PLC integration features
• ADVICE-developed Hall Effect sensors

• Operates on 220/440VAC
• Multiple Safety Systems
• Operates in sets of 2,4, or 6 lifting over 100,000 lbs.
  

• Pyroelectric Hydro Carbon and Water dew point detection system
• Up to four channel operation
• Utilizes Thermoelectric coolers
• Senses temperature
• Uses patented crystal bounce technology
  

Data/Tele Communications Products

• Hand-held breakout and test boxes for WANs RS232,449,530 and V.34.
• Cable continuity tester for Integral Components.
• Miniaturized satellite signal receiver and transmitter for Commtech.
• Tiny and efficient IPv4 stack (ARP, UDP, ICMP, IGMPv2, Ethernet) for a DSP-based VoIP application for TechnoSys.
• ATM encryptor for SLI/Timeplex/Ascom.
• T1 multiplexer and inverse multiplexer for Cray Communications.
• Modem development kit for AT&T.
• Packet over SONET (POS) development and prototyping board for IgT/PMC Sierra.
• Data over power-line products for Telkonet.

Data Communications Protocols and Standards

ADVICE has developed products based on the following technologies:

• Local Area Networks (LAN)
  • Ethernet, CSMA/CD, 10/100/1000BaseT
  • Fibre Channel (HBA, hub)
• Wide Area Networks (WAN)
  • SONET, ATM
  • Synchronous (HDLC, LAPD)
  • Modems (V.32, V.34, etc.)
  • CSU/DSU (56k, T1, T3)
  • Multiplexers (Statistical, WDM, FrameRelay)
  • Encryption (DES, ATM, FrameRelay)
• Protocols
  • Frame Relay, PPP
  • IP, ARP, ICMP, DHCP, UDP, TCP, telnet, DHCP, IGMP, SNMP
  • Routers and Gateways(IP, IPX, SNMP), NAT
• Telecom
  • SONET/SDH
  • ISDN (BRI, PRI)
  • T1/E1 cards, muxes, switches
  • Dial-up network management
  • CSU/DSU (56k, T1, T3)

Purchasing Manufacturing and Testing

ADVICE supplies complete manufacturing services for some of its clients:

• Purchasing
• Most board-level components
• Net-30 relationship with many distributors
• Manufacturing
• Turnkey and quick-turnaround
• Single prototype assembly to full production run
• Fine-pitch BGA
• Testing
• Test design and documentation
• Test fixture development
• Repair services