ED Technology Support Centre
for Scotland
The ED Technology Support Centre for Scotland
(EDTC) was established in 1999 by DTI
and is now supported and funded by the Scottish
Government, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh
and Lothian and European (ERDF) funding. |
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The Centre, hosted within the School of Engineering and the Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University provides
unique support, awareness and learning opportunities and impartial advice
on :
- Electronics
- Electronics design
- Electronics manufacturing
- Materials science
- Digital signal processing
- Telecommunications
- FPGAs and Microcontrollers
- Product development
- Prototyping
- CE Marking
- Access to grant funding
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This advice
is:
- Independent and unbiased
- FREE
- With informal interface
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The
Programme has proved to be invaluable
to companies and entrepreneurs involved
in the design and development of new innovative
ideas or existing product development
by focusing on key issues such as reduced
design time and cost and ensuring that
products work first time and perform to
market expectations.
The Centre is located
within the Central Belt of Scotland in
Livingston and provides geographical cover
across Scotland from the Scottish Borders
to the Shetland and Orkney Islands.
The Centre also hosts
the Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and
Lothian Technology
Gateway. |
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Collaborating
Services
The Centre collaborates
closely with a number of external organisations
who specialise in useful subject areas such
as patents, trademarks, rapid prototyping,
electronics manufacturing and PCB assembly,
to name but a few. The Collaborating
Centres complement the existing
services offered by the EDTC. |
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Literature
Material
The EDTC provides a range
of useful and informative Literature
Material in the form of twelve
‘how to’ guides covering the
following industry topics:
i) An
Introduction to Best Practice; ii)
A Managers Guide to the Design Process;
iii) Design Re-use &
Intellectual Property Rights; iv)
A Guide to Successful Subcontracting; v)
Microsystems Technology; vi)
Programmable Logic Chips; vii)
Microcontrollers; viii)
Digital Signal Processing; ix)
A Guide to Project Management; x)
A Guide to Writing Specifications; xi)
A Guide to Testing and Design For Test;
xii) A Guide to Making
Investment Decisions; xiii)
A Guide to Design for Manufacture and Assembly
To request your FREE copy
of any of the above Guides please complete
the online Enquiry
Form |
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Development
Facilities
Scottish companies can
gain access to leading technology through
the EDTC in-house design and development
facilities. Our suite of major industry
standard design tools are available for
use FREE to companies. The Development
Facilities include FPGA &
VHDL, PC104, PIC, Computer Aided Design
(CAD) and PCB design tools and embedded
system development tools. |
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