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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.comInternet Link
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