Embedded Software Design and Development, Embedded System Design, Laboratory Test Equipment

Eden Electronics provide embedded software design and development, embedded system design, bespoke laboratory test equipment, precisions laboratory testers, specialist sensors, and battery powered portable electronic equipment. 

Our typical market is OEMs requiring electronics and software to embed in products, and factories requiring bespoke production line test equipment. Most of the development work we do require some real time control as well as precision measurement and instrumentation.

We are used to working with partners who bring different skills to the development of embedded systems, and with our customers’ own engineers.

We have made several bespoke testers, and production line testers as well as designing the software for precisions laboratory and portable testers, sensors and measuring devices. It is our combination of embedded software and electronics design expertise that makes us good at developing embedded products.

Eden Electronics specialises in embedded software design and development for microprocessors, system-on-chip (SoC), and microcontrollers. We support various target platforms and architectures: ARM, XScale, Cortex-M3, Infineon C166 and 8051. 

As microcontrollers continue to increase in power and reduce in cost the majority of the control electronics is now within the microcontroller chip.  This simplifies development, improves EMC conformance, reduces power usage and production costs.  This makes the software the dominate component in many embedded products. 

We typically use the 32bit RISK Arm7 and Cortex-M3 processors in new designs because of their low cost, high performance and good integration of on chip peripherals.  We use the well proven Real View compiler developed by ARM Ltd, and Keil’s µVision development IDE and simulator.

Software design and development is now a key component of almost everything that contains electronics. It is this embedded software (firmware) that makes your products work. Because software can be changed without retooling costs your products can be enhanced to keep you competitive and to break into new markets without the expense and long lead times of redesigning PCBs, with all the associated retooling and prototyping costs.

Because the embedded software in a product can be changed easily to meet new business needs we typically form long lasting relationships with out customers, and often make small changes to their products to allow them to win new orders.

We have developed laboratory test equipment, a recent example is the Bottle Sampler for measuring the contamination in hydraulic fluid.

We used Windows CE which offers a rich user interface, that is particular good for laboratory test equipment. It also offers most of the connectivity that you would expect from a desktop PC including the ability to download test results to a standard USB memory stick.

The user control is entirely through the touch sensitive colour display, giving a clean stylish case, and a simple to sue interface.

The software also controls the syringe pump, dip-tube lift motor, pneumatic valves and other aspects of the system.  The software maintains a constant pneumatic pressure around the sample using shop air or an internal pneumatic compressor if shop air is not available.  Recent Laboratory Equipment Projects

Our expertise in electronics design allows us to balance production costs, development costs and performance with flexibility by carefully selecting which functionality is implemented in electronics and which is implemented in software.

Software is updateable so the right choices here can reduce productions costs, and also give flexibility for future enhancements to your products. The electronics for a product is often fixed early but with enhancements to the embedded software your product can have an extended life, continue to compete in the market place and even enter new markets. Enhancing the software in an existing product can giving you extra return on your original investment.