Updated PC Application
January 2026

Updated a test downloader tool that supports a highly successful piece of portal test equipment to use .NET 10.0 and updated all the libraries and NuGet packages to use the most up-to-date versions. This is part of our long-term support to our customers and will become increasingly important with the adoption of the European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

Obsolescence Redesign
November 2025

Started work on the replacement of the main board in a 20-year-old product. This is to deal with obsolescence and will replace the Infineon C166 processor with an Am ARM Cortex M33 processor from ST will be used, to reduce the component count, improve the performance of the product, reduce the BOM costs, and prepare the product for full European Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance.

New handset development
July 2025

Completed the development of a new handset for a long-lived piece of test equipment to replace obsolete components, including migrating from an Infineon C166 to a much small but more powerful STM32L432 processor. Porting the code to new tools and a new processor architecture went smoothly.

PCB Diagnostic Work
March 2023

Found the manufacturing issue that stopped a whole batch of circuit boards working that we were not involved in their design. The customer had tried to do this themselves using their inhouse engineering team, and by calling on an external electronics design house. Both failed to find the fault, so we undertook to find the issue.

We found the fault and enhanced the firmware to report if the same manufacturing issue happened again. As often happens; the issue was very simple once found and that was that a component had been fitted the wrong way round on a whole batch of boards.

PC App to support a new product
February 2022

We developed PC application to connect to a test instrument with data logging capability, to allow the tests to be retrieved and displayed on the PC in spreadsheet style. The user can sort the tests, group and filter the tests as they like by clicking on column headings, change the reporting format/standard that I used and export the data to naïve MS excel spreadsheets. The software was developed for .NET 6.0 and uses WPF for the user screens.

Re-developed a 20-year-old product
January 2021

Completed a significant upgrade to a customer’s product with revised screens, increased automation of measurements, increased the number of tests that can be stored and the number of international standards that it supports. We worked on this project throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns.

COVID-19
2020-2021

We continued to support our customers throughout all the Covid lockdowns, by working from home, using Zoom and Teams to maintain face to face all-be-it virtual contact. Development work on projects already started continued by staff staying at home and working closely using Teams, emails and phone calls. We found that working with our customers improved since we often had weekly Teams meetings, instead of less frequent face-to-face meetings, improving the flow of ideas.

Installing our LiFePO4 Battery Management System on a Narrowboat
January 2017.

Commissioned a 55KWhr LiFePO4 off grid power system, using our in house designed Battery Management System (BMS) on a Liveaboard Narrowboat. The system provides the power for electric propulsion and electric cooking. See the boat at Narrowboat Firecrest at www.nb-Firecrest.co.uk and follow their real-life experience as they cruise the English canal network with what is believed to be the first narrowboat to use LiFePO4 Lithium batteries for propulsion.

Designing a LiFePO4 Battery Management System (BMS) for off grid power storage.
May 2016.

We are designing a LiFePO4 Battery Management System (BMS) for off grid power storage.

Multi-lingual Laboratory Test Equipment
January 2013.

Released a new software version of a successful piece of Laboratory Test Equipment to support multiple languages. Including Japanese, Chinese, English, German, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

Battery Charging and Battery Management
November 2012.

We inherited a project with an internal battery that could not be charged even thought it was flat.

We ended up rewriting the software with a battery management software that would accurately report the percentage of remaining battery capacity, and charged the battery using a multi-stage battery charging algorithm, that reduced the charging time, increased the usable battery capacity, protected the battery form damage due to excessive discharge or and over charging.

Production Settable MAC addresses
August 2012.

After inheriting a project that required the original design company to recompile the software for every individual device and to program the every new PC, causing delays and high production costs.

We modified the software so that our Customer's production could set the MAC address as required, but also implemented a production programmer that not only programmed the device but also set a unique MAC address for each PCB at the touch of a button. Saving our customer long delays and considerable costs.

Migration from WinCE 5.0 to WinCE 6.0
November 2011.

Eden Electronics Design Ltd migrates bespoke laboratory test equipment to use WinCE 6.0. The improved memory management in WinCE 6.0 allowed additional features to be added to the product and broadened the market appeal of the equipment.  The product uses a PXA320 processor module for both the user interface and the real-time hardware control, of motors, sensors, pneumatics and hydraulic components.

Eden Electronics Joins ARM Connected Community
May 2009.

Eden Electronics Design Ltd today announced it is a new member in the ARM® Connected Community, the industry’s largest ecosystem of ARM technology-based products and services.  As part of the ARM Connected Community, Eden Electronics will gain access to a full range of resources to help us design and develop innovative solutions.

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Eden Electronics becomes a Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner
February 2009.

Having use Microsoft Windows CE 5.0 on several projects we have now become a Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner, allowing us to better support our customers with Windows Embedded applications, such as the Laboratory Bottle sampler, that we developed in collaboration with other companies.

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First Embedded System with a Japanese user interface
August 2008.

Having made multi-lingual PC applications to support the embedded software in sensors and test equipment we have developed. We have now delivered our first piece of Laboratory equipment that is multi-lingual, and that support Japanese.

Launch of new Website
March 2008.

Eden Electronics launches new website, with more content and many examples of recent embedded projects.

Membership of the Federation of Small Businesses
February 2008.

Eden Electronics becomes a member of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

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Eden Electronics becomes incorporated
Jan 2008

Eden Electronics became incorporated, after 6 years of steadily increasing turnover, and the completion of many embedded system projects.

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First WinCE Project complete
November 2007.

Eden Electronics completes its first WinCE project that used the .Net Compact Framework to implement the user interface for a laboratory bottle sampler. Much of the application was developed using C# and the .NET compact framework, including all the user screens. The hardware control parts of the system was written in C and used the native WinCE API to ensure deterministic control of the hardware. Both the C and the C# parts of the system are multi-threaded, with the control of the hardware relying on a number of Finite State Machines all running in independent threads, coordinated by raising and receiving discrete events.