Electronics & Hardware Development

Automated testing increases efficiency by allowing faster test execution, improves repeatability by reducing human error and can make laborious and complicated testing painless.

Unlike traditional approaches, our service focuses on seamlessly integrating measurement hardware, software platforms, brought together with simple but elegant custom user interfaces. This synergy ensures products undergo thorough scrutiny, reducing manual oversight and human errors.

We streamline testing processes, resulting in consistent and repeatable outcomes. For businesses, this translates to enhanced product quality, faster testing times and therefore optimised production outputs.

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Our ATE systems can support multiple formats of testing, including the following:

• Functional Testing: Test each unit produced for validation of functionality ensuring operational integrity
• Parallel Testing: Maximise throughput and efficiency for testing high volumes by testing multiple units simultaneously.
• End of Line Testing: Reduce the failures in the field. Validate products before they are shipped and packed with a final quality check.
• Sequential Testing: When testing must be conducted in a defined order and sequence - ensure no steps are missed and capture anomalies and failures at each stage.

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Avazia understands that selecting the right test equipment and instrumentation for the tests your product requires is paramount.

Based on your test requirements, we can select all the test equipment required to achieve the performance and accuracy you need.

Owing to electronics and hardware design background, if no suitable existing test equipment exists, we have the possibility of designing and developing it as a custom device tailored to your needs.

We build all of our ATE systems in-house in the UK, and oversee all design and development.

Our engineers have electronics design experience gleaned from years of working for and alongside highly distinguished companies within the industry.

Our electronics design capabilities cover everything from precision analogue measurement circuits to high-speed digital designs - and everything between, including wireless and wired communications interfaces, and power electronics.

Our circuits are designed with the customer and final product in mind - whether it be design for performance or cost optimisation, or any other target, we work alongside you to achieve what’s right for you.

After circuit design, we move toward the next step – recreating that circuit on a PCB.

We are pride ourselves on designing PCBs which work exactly as the original circuit design intended, whilst also meeting space and packaging constraints and any other requirements which may be specific to your product. We apply care and consideration to every component and track placement.

Throughout the process you can also be sure that we have our mind on the things others so often forget, such as signal and power integrity and the challenging demands of producing an EMC-friendly end-product by reducing emissions and increasing immunity to external interference.

Modern electronics seldom seem to be without an element of embedded software.

Avazia has experience of writing all manners of embedded software for a vast range of microcontrollers.

Recent projects include code written in C (and some inline Assembly for optimisation) for Espressif’s ESP32, and a variety of other 32-bit microcontrollers such as the STMicroelectronics STM32 and Microchip PIC32 series.

These projects have included features such as WiFi connectivity, high-speed data logging, motor control, SD card memory access and dedicated web interfaces and have used real-time operating systems such as FreeRTOS.

Before going to production, you need to know that your design works as you and your stakeholders want it to. A key part of this validation process is the development of prototypes.

We provide cost-effective prototype design and build services, which is critical when working to a budget and and where a limited batch of prototypes (or perhaps only one!) is being produced.

With expertise in both design and manufacturing we are a perfect fit for customers looking for products designed to be commercially viable at the same time as including considerations for quality, standards and regulatory compliance.

Avazia offer full electro-mechanical assembly services. Our turnkey assembly services encompass all aspects of the build process including the procurement of components, manufacturing PCBs, cable assembly and ‘box build’ assembly.

Years of experience in high-volume production environments allow us to supply your product built to a high-standard, fully tested and packaged ready to supply to your customer.

Allow us to provide you with fast, efficient and cost-effective solution tailored to your production needs.

Most electronic products require some form of enclosure. Using fully up-to-date 3D CAD software, Avazia can design the ideal enclosure for your requirements.

Whether a small ABS plastic enclosure with simple cut-outs for indicators, or a large sheet-metal formed enclosure we can help.

We also know how important it is that your product looks good - we design custom screen-printed graphics and also polyester graphic overlays (which can incorporate buttons and indicators) to make your product stand out.

A data acquisition system is only as good as the components you select. We can help you to choose the correct sensors to ensure you are measuring the aspects of your processes that really matter to you - taking into account all the complexities of modern sensors and transducers.

We’ll always ensure that the DAQ systems themselves are also up to the task, ensuring that performance is guaranteed without increasing cost unnecessarily.

Being NI Alliance Partners helps us to provide DAQ systems which use NI hardware as a foundation. NI is renowned for producing high-quality, high-performance data acquisition devices and a system comprised from NI hardware often also has benefits of being reconfigurable and flexible to meet changing measurement requirements.

NI equipment is ubiquitous in the test and measurement sector, such as cDAQ, cRIO and PXI systems. If NI do not have the ideal device, then we have a range of other preferred manufacturers which we can source from - we also design data acquisition and data logging devices ourselves if a more bespoke approach is needed.

Thanks to our strong background in software development, Avazia can not only provide you with a physical test setup which performs as you require - we can develop the software to match.

From companies in the nuclear sector to university spin-outs, we have developed software which displays the measurement parameters you are interested in, and ensures that the data is captured in formats which work for you. Examples of our software can be seen in our case studies pages and in our software sections.