Our most profitable customers consider Granite a “virtual division” of their company, not just a service provider.

Our engineers provide expertise for truly turnkey design solutions with a much faster time to market. Our team can assist through the entire design process, from writing the specification to producing your product.  As a result, our most profitable customers consider us a “virtual division” of their company, not just a service provider. They rely on our industrial computer expertise for economical solutions and the freedom to devote internal resources to core competencies.

If your in-house engineering resources are overloaded or are not in the computer business, Granite can help. We’ll engineer the right solution, the first time, and keep the product consistent for a substantially longer lifecycle than previously possible.

Electrical Engineering

Our electrical engineers have the experience and state-of-the-art equipment to properly design peripherals to interface to any PC based control system. We are your source for ISA or PCI bus expansion cards, USB peripherals, 1394 devices, micro controller based systems or custom I/O systems.

Software Engineering

Let us develop drivers, firmware, applications or development tools for a total software solution.

Mechanical Engineering

If you need custom enclosures or are not quite sure how to integrate the electrical control necessary to automate your system, we can help.

Granite can assist you through the entire design process from writing the specification to producing your product. If your in-house engineering resources are overloaded or are not in the computer business, Granite can help. We allow the OEM customer to directly leverage our years of experience and get the right solution, the first time, and keep the product consistent for a substantially longer lifecycle than previously possible.

Engineering disciplines supported by Granite;
This list contains the general skills contained in the Granite Engineering department. We welcome the opportunity to discuss any of these skills in further detail with you. Additional competencies are being added regularly.

Electrical Hardware Design
     Digital circuit design
     Programmable logic design ­ (specializing in Altera, Xilinx)
     Digital control systems
     Schematic capture (Innoveda PowerLogic, a.k.a. PADS PowerLogic)
     PCB design (Innoveda PowerPCB, a.k.a. PADS PowerPCB)
     Microprocessor / microcontroller / DSP architecture
     Low- and mid-range analog circuit design
     Serial interfaces
     Parallel interfaces
     Buses
     ISA
     32-bit PCI
     PC/104
     PC/104+
     USB 1.x functions
     Cable based IEEE-1394
     Custom cable and harness design
     System power and thermal design
     AC/DC power control under digital control

Firmware Design
     Assembly based development (x86, 8051)
     C/C++ based development
     Experience on various 8-, 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers and DSPs
     Real time embedded devices

Prototyping
     Limited mechanical prototyping and modification ability in house
     Hand assembly of prototype circuit boards
     Cable and harness prototype ability
     Complete test fixture creation for verification and production testing
                 at PCB vendors
     Quick turnaround production of custom devices

Mechanical Design
     AutoCAD design
     SolidWorks 3-D modeling and design
     Enclosure design
     Custom packaging
     Custom finishing
     Custom label design
     Custom silkscreen design

Regulatory Certifications
     Handle the original certification and maintenance of systems
               with third party labs
     CE
     UL 1950 / UL 2601 / UL 60950
     CISPR 22
     CISPR 24
     FCC, ESD, EMI, NEMA
     Others on request

Software Design
     DOS applications
     Microsoft Windows
     Operating System development in Windows 9x, Windows NT,
                Windows 2000, Windows XP development
     Microsoft Visual Basic design
     Microsoft Visual C++ design
     COM drivers
     WDM drivers
     VxD drivers
     Low end applications
     Access and SQL database design
     HTML
     Limited JavaScript

System Design
     Well versed in Microsoft Windows operating systems
     Limited Linux experience
     Limited VxWorks experience
     Active motherboard based systems
     Passive backplane / Single board computer based systems
     ISA based systems
     32-bit PCI based systems
     PC/104 and PC/104+ based systems
     PICMG based systems
     Control system applications
     Custom systems from definition to turnkey or any portion
     Enhance and/or reverse engineer existing systems
     Design for regulatory compliance including EMI, ESD, UL,
               FCC, FDA, ISO 9001 and CE


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