Stellantis
Zone controllers
Zone controller hardware for modern vehicle electrical architectures.
Services
Hardware Design
Automotive-grade electronics from architecture and power tree through schematic, worst-case analysis and EMC support, to plant industrialisation and post-SOP field analysis.
Automotive hardware is unforgiving: a design error found after start of production is orders of magnitude more expensive than one found at schematic review. Our hardware practice is therefore built around analysis rather than iteration — power trees, worst-case calculations, DFMEA and thermal work happen before layout, not after the first prototype fails.
We stay with the product afterwards. Plant industrialisation support, field return analysis, yearly cost optimisation and change requests are part of the same engagement, handled by the engineers who designed the board.
What we cover
Requirements & planning
- Alignment with the customer requirements team
- Direct technical discussion with the customer
- Planning of the hardware design steps and gates
Hardware architecture
- High-level architecture development
- Block requirement definition
- Power tree design
- Clock and reset tree design
- Critical component and critical block lists
Detailed design
- Schematic capture and BOM creation
- Worst-case analysis calculation
- DFMEA, reliability and safety analysis
- HSI document creation
- PCB support for EMC and thermal optimisation
Design validation
- Block test and integration test definition and execution
- Electrical and thermal testing
- EMC and ESD test support
- System-level integration and in-car testing support
- MATLAB and Simulink simulation of hardware behaviour
Production & post-SOP support
- Hardware support for product validation
- Plant industrialisation support
- Post start-of-production hardware support
- Customer return and field failure analysis
- Yearly product updates, cost optimisation and change request implementation
Selected work
Products and programmes delivered by members of our team, including in prior roles.
Mercedes-Benz, Ford, Volkswagen, Audi
Power distribution and smart-fuse controllers
Power net management hardware securing vehicle electrical distribution.
Mercedes-Benz
Interior ambient lighting
Controller hardware for interior ambient lighting systems.
General Motors, Volkswagen
Gateway controllers
Gateway units facilitating communication between vehicle electronic systems.
Bidirectional EV charging
AC bidirectional charging station hardware for electric vehicle energy management.
Competence detail
The clusters below are drawn from our full capability matrix. See all capabilities for the complete picture.
Hardware design
Automotive-grade electronics from block definition through worst-case analysis to post-SOP field support.
| Cluster | Available competences | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware design |
| A wide variety of devices and technologies. |
| High-level & detailed design |
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| Post-design support |
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Tell us what you are building and where it is stuck. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right team for it.