Industries

Where our engineering goes

Automotive is where the team was built and where most of our work still sits. Aerospace, defense and medical technology are the domains we are actively growing into, because the engineering discipline transfers directly.

Focus domains

Four domains of active interest

These four share a common demand: certified processes, traceable requirements and hardware that has to work for a decade in the field.

Automotive

Our deepest domain. Gateways, clusters, infotainment, autonomous driving and power distribution, delivered from RFQ to SOP and through model-year updates.

Gateways — the main computer in the car, routing and processing all vehicle data
Instrument clusters and infotainment displays
Main infotainment computers — audio, video, navigation and wireless connectivity
Autonomous driving — radar, lidar, sensors and cameras
Camera monitoring systems for driver, passengers and vehicle surroundings
Highly integrated computers combining the functionality of 10–15 devices
Power train, battery and smart fuse management computers
Cyber security and functional safety strategy development

Experience with all European, US and Japanese car manufacturers, working to IATF 16949, ASPICE and ISO 26262 as a matter of course.

Aerospace

Avionics electronics and the safety-critical engineering discipline that comes with it, built on the same certification-driven processes as our automotive work.

Avionics electronics development
Safety-critical software and system architecture
Requirements traceability and certification-oriented documentation
Verification and validation for high-assurance systems

A focus domain for ECS.SDX. The rigour that automotive functional safety demands transfers directly, and our engineers have delivered for programmes including SpaceX.

Defense

Ruggedised embedded electronics, secure communications and the cyber security practice that underpins both.

Embedded computing for demanding environments
Secure communication systems and solutions
Cryptography, HSM integration and secure boot
Threat and risk analysis

A focus domain for ECS.SDX, drawing on our cyber security practice and our experience with communication systems.

Medical Technology

Medical electronics where reliability, traceability and regulatory documentation are the core of the engineering task rather than an afterthought.

Medical device electronics and embedded software
Reliability and safety analysis
Requirements traceability and design history documentation
Verification and validation to regulated standards

A focus domain for ECS.SDX. The processes that satisfy IATF 16949 and ISO 26262 map closely onto medical device quality systems.

Further areas

Everywhere else our engineers work

The same teams, applied outside the automotive core.

Electrical Mobility

Charging infrastructure and vehicle-side power electronics, from bidirectional wall boxes to battery and smart fuse management computers.

Bidirectional AC EV charging stations
Wall box charging stations
Power train, battery and smart fuse management computers
Power electronics design and thermal management

Robotics

Intelligent mechatronic systems combining our mechanical, hardware and software practices, including ROS-based platforms.

Mechanical design of robotic systems and handling equipment
ROS and real-time control software
Vision systems with AI
Semiconductor handling and automated production equipment

Semiconductors & Industry 4.0

Supporting the design and manufacture of new silicon, and the sensors and computers that make automated production lines work.

Support for the design and manufacture of new silicon chips, microcontrollers, microprocessors and SoCs
Full engineering and software support of the production line
Sensors and computers supporting automated production
Unified testing and feature demonstration frameworks
End-of-line testing

Consumer Electronics

Smart cameras, smart home and smart city devices, and the power tools and appliances that sit alongside them.

Smart cameras and vision solutions
Smart Home and Smart City devices
Electrical power tools
Vision systems with AI, image quality and processing

Communications

Communication systems and solutions, including the in-vehicle networking that modern zonal architectures depend on.

Communication systems and solutions
Automotive Ethernet and Gigabit in-vehicle networking
Wireless connectivity stacks
Gateway and routing architectures

Working in one of these domains?

Tell us about the programme. We will be direct about where we add value and where we do not.

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