Comtel Electronics are market leaders in designing high performance backplanes and systems in the Telecoms, Defence, Aerospace and Scientific sectors since 1993.
Over the last 3 decades we have built up our range of core competencies to enable us to offer you complete embedded system hardware.
Our familiarisation with industry standard specifications and our experience allows us to efficiently understand customer requirements and interpret them into a fully compliant solution
ELECTRONIC DESIGN
With over 20 years of design experience in embedded systems, Comtel have all the necessary capabilities to produce a custom hardware solution for you. Our dynamic engineering team can respond quickly to your requirements to design and manufacture backplanes, custom PCBs, carrier cards, enclosures and complete system.
- Circuit design and Schematic capture
- PCB Layout including market leading expertise in high- speed signal routing. (Air-/-Planetm technology)
- Component Engineering
- Power conversion and Distribution
- Backplane, Motherboard, Mezzanine Design
- EMC filtering and RF Shielding
- Existing design optimization for improve signal integrity performance
- Cable interface design
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
We can work with you to capture the requirements at a concept stage and to support you all the wy through to deliver a complete hardware solution. Our experienced mechanical design team will work with you to produce an optimal packaging solution that meets the typically demanding performance requirements in cost effective way.
- Design of 19“, ATR, SFF, Man portable and fully custom electronic enclosures to meet all environments.
- 3D modelling
- Experts in rugged military specification compliant solutions
- Optimisation for Size, Weight and Power (SWaP)
- Enhanced Thermal performance solutions
- Ingress Protection (IP) rating design
- EMC/RF Shielding and Isolation design
- Detailed understanding and selection of best manufacturing techniques
- Materials selection process
SYSTEM ENGINEERING
Comtel have a deep understanding of all the embedded architectures and are experienced with using the latest signal interfaces such as 100G Ethernet and PCIe Gen 4
VITA: VPX, VXS, VME, VXI,
PICMG: ATCA, CPCI, CPCI Serial, µTCA, PXI, PXI Express.
PCI-SIG: PCI Express (PCIe) Gen 3 & 4
- Requirements capture and compliance
- System integration
- Documentation
- Reliability and Maintainability
- Familiarisation with latest Mil-Std and DEF_STAN requirements
- Hot swap, redundant system design for high reliability applications
- Software and Firmware configuration
- In depth knowledge of Industry standards
Despite these industry standards, in our experience most solutions will require a level of customisation, so Comtel are set up to handle this with a streamlined approach to minimise the additional costs usually associated with custom hardware.
