Systems Engineering
When it comes to excellence in product and solution designs, the quality of the end result depends on a combination of the overall concept and each functional block of the design. AimValley has a dedicated Systems Engineering team that is assigned upfront when it comes to end-to-end turn-key designs.
Our systems engineering team is the source for creative and innovative architectures for entire systems design and it is the work they do that vastly increases the overall effectiveness of the design.
Considerations of Systems Engineering
Overall product design excellence is achieved by conceptualizing the end-product and then parsing the project into a logical design process along with clearly defined timelines, requirements, concepts, and an overall vision. Here are the considerations that are considered and translated into sub-projects, plans and milestones:
Function
Ensuring that the end product will provide the functionality defined by our customers.
Form Factor
On the surface, this often seems simple; however, a vast amount of elements need to be taken into consideration, such as the location and orientation of connectors, the ingress/egress of airflow for cooling, ergonomics, considerations for the sake of ruggedness, RF shielding, alignment for installation, usability, and modularity, etc.
Time-to-Market
Striking a balance between functions that are supported by standard off-the-shelf integrated circuits versus those done in CPU/GPU and those done in an FPGA requires forethought. Trade-offs between cost, power draw, and flexibility are made.
Cost versus Future-Proof
AimValley’s system engineering team designs to minimize both the cost of the design cycle and the cost of goods sold, while still taking into account sustainability, supply continuity, and future-proof flexibility.
Manufacturability
Ensuring that the product is efficient and practical to be manufactured, leveraging a reduction in manual labor without sacrificing quality.
Aspects of Systems Engineering
- Function
- Connectivity
- Power
- Transmission
- CPU/Controllers
- ASICs, FPGAs, Circuitry
- Backplanes, Modularity
- Assembly & Mechanical Design
- Environmental Standard Conformance
- Expert Feasibility
Using your requirements as our key input, we rapidly converge to a high-level proposal, taking standards evolution and technology trends into account. Once completed and agreed through interaction with our customers, product proposals are subsequently specified in detail in (testable) requirements.
Systems & Networks
- Transmission, cross-connect and OAM&P
- ASICs and Circuit Board Design
- Backplanes, Mechanical Design, Power and Environmental
- Pioneers of Ethernet over SDH
- Virtual Concatenation, LCAS and GFP
- TDM over Packet Solutions
Telecoms Expertise
- OTN, SDH, SONET
- Synchronization
- Protection
- DCN network design
- Time Sensitive Networking
- CPRI and Wireless Fronthaul
Data Expertise
- Ethernet, VLAN, IP/MPLS
- Ethernet Switching
- Ethernet Protocols
- Performance and Quality of Service
- Industrial Ethernet