Digital Home Gateway (DHG)
Aftek's home automation product, DHG, has utilized our in-house hardware development expertise for various modules.
- Hardware architecture and chipset selection
- Complete board design cycle
- PCB - 6 layer layout with control impedance and special precautions for the Audio, Video, Ethernet 10/100 Mbps and WLAN client
- PCB - 2 layer layout for automation with special precautions for serial communication protocol
- WLAN chipset selection, selection of the host interface
- Post layout Signal Integrity (SI) tests
- High speed memory interface and provision of multiple interfaces on a single board
- Board level testing and debugging
- Low level device driver development and assembly level routines for board bring up and testing
- Plastics and enclosure design guidelines to mechanical designer
- Production sign-off documentation
Personal Wireless Gateway (PWG)
PWG supports voice communication on GSM as well as on WiFi based VoIP, data communication on GPRS and WiFi and PC / PDA connectivity on Bluetooth and USB.
Hardware development done:
- Design and development of hardware architecture
- Design of hardware-schematic design, simulations and Netlist creation
- PCB 12 layer layout guidelines for RF and multilayer board
- Board bring up and debugging
- Various interface testing via assembly level routines and JTAG port
- Usage of logic analyzer and DSO