Scottish Support Centre > Development Facilities
 
At the ED Technology Support Centre, Scottish companies can gain access to leading technology through our in-house design and development facilities. Our suite of major industry-standard design tools can be used FREE of charge by any company who wishes to start a design.

Our experience has found that this service can be invaluable to companies as it can help them to make the right decisions in relation to which tools to buy and, by visiting the Centre companies can ‘try before they buy’. A member of the EDTC staff will be on-hand to assist you with your design and with any queries that you may have in relation to the tools themselves.

If EDTC does not have the design tool that your company requires, please contact us at edesign@napier.ac.uk or telephone 01506 407140 and we can look into sourcing the required tools for your company on the try before you buy basis.

 

FPGA Development Facilities

The ED Technology Support Centre for Scotland has established FPGA development systems for evaluation by companies who wish to develop FPGA technologies. This evaluation system complements the existing CAD tools available for testing at the ED Technology Support Centre.

PC104 Development Facilities

PC104 development is available from the ED Technology Support Centre for Scotland through access to a PC104 Development System at the Centre.

PC104 is essentially a PC with a different form factor and most of the program development tools used for PCs can be used for a PC104 system. This reduces the cost of purchasing new tools and also greatly reduces the learning curve for programmers and hardware designers.

PC104 based systems are used in a variety of places including factories, laboratories, processing plants, vehicles, and almost anywhere devices must be controlled by a programmable computer. PC104 systems are small and usually have low power requirements so they are great for applications that simply do not have the space for a full-blown desktop PC. Additionally, PC104 systems are designed to be more rugged than desktop systems.

Other Design Evaluation Tools

The ED Technology Support Centre provides access to the following design tools for evaluation:

  • Schematic capture design tools
  • PCB design tools for mixed-signal PCBs (autorouting, PCB editor, interactive route editing, design for test)
  • PIC design tools
  • High-speed digital simulation tools (signal integrity analysis, EMC analysis and crosstalk for both pre-layout and post-layout design)

 

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