Core Competencies

 

 

ARL offers unique capabilities with the combination of several disciplines, resulting in a comprehensive product development facility. The human resources available in ARL cover a wide range of skills with comprehensive experience in the following:

 

q            RF Design, Development and Implementation

·        Low-noise amplifiers

·        Oscillators

·        PLL frequency synthesizers

·        Impedance matching networks

·        Filters

·        Microstrip and cable devices, e.g. splitters and impedance transformers

·        RF signal processing

·        Receivers

·        Transmitters

·        Power amplifiers

·        Direct digital synthesizers

·        IQ modulators and demodulators

·        Passive high power duplexers and duplex filters

·        Integration to external systems

·        RFID

 

 

 

q            Electronic Design, Development and Implementation

·        Use of embedded controllers and processors (TI MSP430, Renesas R8C & M16C, Atmel AVR & ARM SAM7, Phillips ARM LPC2xxx, MicroChip 8 & 16 bit, etc.)

·        FPGA design (Xilinx & Altera MAX3000A PLD)

·        Computer peripherals (ISA, PCI, USB cards, etc.)

·        Battery chargers

·        Direction finding

·        Remote sensing, telemetry and remote control

·        Wireless communications

·        GSM communications

·        Point-to-point links

·        Protocol converters

 

q            Mechanical Design, Development and Implementation

·        Product packaging

·        Mechanical interfaces

·        Special requirements

·        Mechanical and electrical manufacturing

·        Configuration management

·        Industrialisation

 

q            RF and Microwave Propagation

·        HF, VHF and UHF propagation

·        Link analysis

·        Radio planning and coverage

·        Erlang calculations

 

q            HF, VHF and UHF Customized Antenna Engineering

·        HF antennas and active antennas

·        VHF and UHF DF antenna arrays

·        Special custom antenna development

·        Dipoles, Yagis and Log-Periodic antennas

·        Covert antennas

 

q            Systems Engineering and Integration

·        DF systems

·        Telemetry systems

·        Telecommunication systems

·        Data communications

 

q            Software Design, Development and Implementation

·        Embedded software and control

·        Computer based applications (Visual C++, Visual Basic, etc.)

·        Web design and internet applications

·        Windows device drivers