ForeThought Development - Engineering Services

Engineering and Product Development Services

At ForeThought Development we know first hand how difficult it can be to find qualified personnel to meet our fluctuating research and design needs. We have repeatedly faced this challenge and have developed effective solutions that we wish to share with you. ForeThought Development is an organization of highly motivated and experienced engineering professionals with close ties to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Our areas of expertise lie primarily in the fields of electronic hardware and computer software development, mechanical engineering, physics, and rehabilitation medicine. ForeThought Development provides high quality services at a rate comparable to what it would cost to hire your own engineering specialist without incurring the long term expense and commitment. Because a substantial amount of our work involves research, we are often able to offer innovative solutions to meet today's growing challenges in the product development process.

Consider ForeThought Development as an extension of your in-house engineering department:

When there isn't sufficient reason to hire additional full-time engineers
When you require rapid, quality engineering services at reasonable rates
When you require innovative solutions to design challenges
When you have difficulty keeping pace with peak engineering loads

Areas of Experience

Medical Instrumentation
Power Supplies and Power Monitoring/Management Systems
Consumer Electronics and Equipment
Database Management
Network Design and Administration
FDA, FCC, UL, CSA and CE Certification

Melding State-of-the-Art Hardware and Software Design Techniques to Realize Your Product

Take a look at the Videotact, one of our products designed from conception.

Hardware Development

Digital Hardware Design (to 500Mhz)

Discrete Logic
RISC
Bit Slice
Programmable Logic Controllers
Microprocessors
Digital Signal Processors
FPGA Design

Analog Hardware Design (DC to 1Ghz)

Amplifiers

Audio
Video
RF
Instrumentation
Power
Isolation

Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Conversion
Power Supplies (Linear and Switching)
Optoelectronics
Signal Conditioning
Sensors

Software Development

Assembly Level

Intel 80xxx / 386 / 586
Motorola 68xxx
Zilog
Various DSP families
Motor Control
Embedded Systems
And a wide variety of other commercial microprocessors and microcontrollers

High Level

Windows GUI, SDK/DDK
C/C++
Delphi/Pascal
Fortran
Visual Basic
SQL / ADO / Advantage / Clipper database engines

Systems Level

Systems Architecture
Configuration Management
Complex Inter-process Communication

Product Packaging

Prototyping

Printed Circuit Board Layout and Fabrication

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