Hardware Engineering

At the heart of embedded software engineering lies the field of hardware engineering. Hardware engineering focuses on the design, development, and implementation of the physical components that make up embedded system. It encompasses a wide range of disciplines, to create robust and efficient hardware platforms.

We have it all

The development of complex, custom specific hardware is our core business, and Hitex offers a complete range of services from development of a draft for hardware design up to full production.

Seamless integration of hardware and software

The seamless integration of hardware and software has become a critical component in the development of embedded systems.

Hardware engineers play a vital role in the embedded software ecosystem by collaborating with software engineers to develop reliable and optimized solutions. They are responsible for designing and prototyping electronic circuits, selecting and integrating microprocessors, microcontrollers, and other hardware components, and ensuring that the hardware system meets the software's requirements.

Our multidisciplinary approach

One of the key challenges in hardware engineering for embedded software is balancing the often-conflicting constraints of performance, power consumption, size, and cost. Hardware engineers must optimize the design to meet the system's functional requirements while minimizing power consumption, ensuring reliability, and adhering to cost limitations. This delicate balance requires a multidisciplinary approach and constant collaboration with software engineers to fine-tune the hardware-software interface.

What can Hitex do for you?

In close cooperation with our customers, we help to define a concept and a detailed specification. The result is a clear picture of hardware part of the product in terms of the dimensions, manufacturability and testability, as well as the cost and availability. We provide high speed design and layout expertise with state-of-the-art design- and layout tools, supporting design schematics for PCB layouts with up to 12 layers (double sided), high-pin-count components (> 1000 pin BGA with a 1.0 or 0.8 mm ball pitch) and a track width and distance down to 0.11 mm with microvias and meander tracks. For analogue and low noise designs we support matched impedance tracks with differential pair routing.