Overview
			First Principles Technology (FPTek) is a Maryland company with offices
			in Gaithersburg, Maryland and Cupertino, California. FPTek is staffed by executives
			and engineers from the North American electronics industry. We are a team dedicated
			to quality, timely, cost effective work in state of the art electronics in a number
			of business areas. We draw on a wide range of skills and contacts from the United
			States and Canada. We can assemble teams from one to twenty people for business contracts.
			Our business objective is to excel in the electronics consulting business delivering
			whole solutions to complex problems. First Principles Corp. prides itself on having
			some of the best brains in the industry. For example, our hardware team has over
			35 patents for circuit design. Our software engineers have been selected from the
			satellite communications industry and are leaders in their field. Our capabilities
			extend beyond those available through traditional hardware and software consulting
			companies. 
			Specialization
			FPTek provides design services in the following areas: 
			
				- Complex systems design comprising impedance controlled PCBs, mixed signal custom
				analog IC’s, cutting-edge FPGAs, ultra-high speed memory interfaces and DSP/uController
				embedded control.
				
 - Mixed Signal transistor-level ASIC design. Bipolar, BiCMOS and CMOS. From 50
				devices to 300,000 devices on chip.
				
 - Significant experience in Sigma Delta converters up to 20 bits resolution and
				20 bits linearity.
				
 - Low-noise, high-speed board-level analog and digital design.
				
 - FPGA design. State machines, memory interfaces, ALU functions, timing analysis,
				back annotation simulations.
				
 - Embedded controllers with both assembly coding and high-level languages.
				
 - Very high-speed serial communications and data transmission.
				
 - Advanced board layout techniques for low inductance and high speed.
				
 - Image readout methods and pipelined image processing.
				
Software Capabilities:
				 - Management of customers, deliverables and resources
				
 - Management of software development teams
				
 - Proposal writing, content negotiation, costing, staffing
				
 - Extensive experience in real time embedded systems
				
 - Extensive communication protocol experience
				
 - Satellite modem systems.
				
 - DSP Signal processing with real time data acquisition
				
 - C / Pascal / RTO experience on Analog Devices, Motorola and Intel architectures
				
 - Experienced in hardware/software co-design
			
  
			
			  Contact Partner
			
			 
				
					California 
						FPTek Inc.  
						1014 Cranberrry Drive 
						Cupertino, CA 95014 | 
					British Columbia 
						Silicon Analog Systems Corp.  
						Unit 204, 1433 St Paul St. 
						Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 2E4 | 
				 
			 
 
			 
			
			
				
					Contract Coordinator and principal contact person for all regions 
						Mark Mallinson 
						Tel: 250-764-9123 Fax: 250-764-9162 
						email: mark.mallinson@analogsystems.com 
						url: www.fptek.com  | 
				 
			 
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