A photo of a screen and a circuit board sitting on top of a schematic

Engineering Design Services

Leverage FDI’s experience to meet deadlines and exceed expectations

When your embedded systems projects need some extra hands and minds, you can rely on FDI’s dedication to a job well done. We can work seamlessly with your team to provide as much or as little support as you need.

Our experience

From low-technology widgets to complex systems, FDI has designed a broad range of customer products—some that have been working reliably for more than 25 years.

With decades of experience, FDI engineers know which materials and designs provide the best results on the line. We guide your concept and help you balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and time to market.

Our expertise

DESIGN new product concepts, with feasibility studies and cost analyses.
REDESIGN and reimagine existing products for manufacturing, testing, and cost reduction.
CREATE customized enclosures and packaging designs for plastics, sheet metal, or machining.

Our dedication to quality

We value long-term relationships, and your bottom line is important to us. We consider partial payment tied to the successful sale of your product.

Our experts are available when you are ready to migrate to your product’s next generation. Guaranteed, ongoing support is critical: just one reason why many of our customers have worked with us for more than 20 years.

Let us know how we can make your life easier!

Our capabilities

Hardware

The links provide examples of the respective capabilities.

MCU Experience:
- ARM Cortex-M0, NXP LPC11XX Family
- ARM Cortex-M3, NXP LPC13XX and LPC17XX Family’s Example
- ARM Cortex-M4F, NXP LPC40XX, LPC43XX, NXP LPC546XX Family’s
- ARM Cortex-M4F, Texas Instruments Stellaris/Tiva C Families
- ARM Cortex-M4F, M23 and M0+; Renesas Synergy Family of MCUs (S7, S5, S3, S1)
- ARM Cortex-M33, STM32L5 and STM32U5 Series
- ARM Cortex-M85, M33, M4F and M23; Renesas RA Family of MCUs (RA8, RA6, RA4, RA2)
- ARM7TDMI, Atmel AT91XXX Family
- ARM7TDMI, NXP LPC2XXX Family Example
- ARM9, NXP LPC3XXX Family Example
- Renesas RX100, RX200, RX62N (RDK, SOMDIMM, uEZGUI), RX63N (RDK, SOMDIMM), and RX65N Series
- Renesas RL78G13, RL78G14 and RL78F14 Series
- Renesas SH7216 Series: RDK Example
- Renesas H8SX Series
- Texas Instruments MSP430 16/20 bit MCU Families
- Freescale PowerPC and Power QUICC II: Example
- NXP/Intel/Atmel 8051 Families
- NXP/Philips LPC9XX Family
- NXP/Philips XA Family
- Zilog Z80, Z8, and Super8 Families
Intel & AMD Processors
FPGA/CPLD Development
Flash In-System Programming (ISP/ICP)
Solid State Disk Drives
RF Radio (VHF, UHF, ZigBee, 802.11 Wi-Fi) Example
Gigabit Ethernet, Switches, Power Over Ethernet (PoE), VoIP)
USB FS/HS, 2.0 and OTG
PCI Express, ExpressCard, PCI and ISA Interface Example
HDMI, LVDS, Displayport Video Interfaces Example
PCB Design, Layout and Initial Board Development:
- Surface Mount Technology
- BGA, mBGA
- Blind/Buried Via
- Double Sided Active Components Example
- Analog and RF Layout Example
- High Speed Digital Layout (differential pairs, SERDES, SGMII)

Software Development

Assembly, C and C ++ for embedded applications
RTOS development on embedded platforms
- Azure RTOS (formerly Express Logic – ThreadX)
- AWS FreeRTOS
- μEZ™ Rapid Development Platform
- FreeRTOS / SafeRTOS development
- Segger emBOS
- Micrium uC/OS-III RTOS development
Integrated Development Environments
- STM32 Cube, CubeMX
- NXP MCUXpresso
- Rowley Crossworks
- Renesas e2 Studio
- Renesas HEW
- KEIL uVision
- QT Development Tools
Debugging Tools:
- Segger RTT
- Segger SystemView
- Segger J-Link
- Segger J-Link SDK for customized J-Link Applications
- Renesas E Series Emulators
Expert in Graphical User Interface (GUI) development
- Azure RTOS GUIX
- Segger emWin
- LVGL – Light and Versatile Embedded Graphics Library
- QT GUI development for Desktop/Android/Embedded
- C and C ++ for desktop GUI applications
- QT Design Studio
Production:
- FDI Developed Functional Test Control Software
- FDI Developed Production Monitoring in the Cloud
- Flash downloaders and In-System Programming
- SEGGER production programming / PC SW tools for enhanced testing/debugging
Experienced Cloud Programmers
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  - View our uEZ IoT Connectivity Demo on YouTube
- IBM Cloud Services
- Microsoft Azure
Network and TCP/IP drivers
Android application development
Multi-processor systems/multi-threaded application development
Nvidia CUDA C/C++
Linux
Visual Studio
QT Framework
PC Application Software (device drivers, interrupt handlers, data collection, etc.)
LabVIEW (automated production testing)