Our Services and Capabilities

Lance Lascari

President and principal consultant

A list of our specialties:

• Critical design reviews.
• Feasibility studies.
• HF through microwave circuit design & analysis, primarily geared towards modern wireless communications systems, broadband/CATV systems, military communications, and sensors/instrumentation.
• Low noise Oscillator and synthesizer design
• system architecture
• Proof-of-concept design and rapid prototyping
• Troubleshooting system level problems (spur sources, stability problems, RFI/EMC, etc.)
• Windows & embedded software (PIC, DSP, older processors)
• Regulatory and localization issues with wireless devices
• General help with short range unlicensed/ISM band products (design, debug, sanity checks).

Our production experience spans from tens of units a year to hundreds of thousands.  Design for manufacturing and Test are always something we can help you with.  Please see Lance's resume page for more details.

Here are some example tasks that we can provide for your organization efficiently:

Short term projects

• Participate as an external reviewer for Engineering Design Reviews (both remotely and on-site).
• RF layout reviews (some high speed digital as well).
• amplifier, mixer, filter (lumped, distributed) design and prototyping.
• basic antenna designs & prototypes
• Synthesizer / VCO design help/troubleshooting.
• Reverse engineering
• Developing a customized analysis solution (MathCad, Octave, Excel, Genesys, Sonnet, etc).
• Research (component, competitor, etc.)
• Individual circuit design (LNA, PA, filter, mixer, VCO, synthesizer, multiplier, coupler.....).
• EMC problems (radiated emissions, susceptibility, unintentional conducted emissions).
• RF site surveys/interference studies for wireless deployments.

Longer term projects

• Create RF hardware specifications from marketing requirements
• Helping clients with economic and performance tradeoffs in tricky designs.
• Helping clients to design for manufacturability and test. Also helping to develop engineering level evaluation plans for RF subsystems.
• Product design: System through circuit implementation
• Developing a custom software application for test/characterization automation.

Recurring Services

• Availability for on-site design reviews or critique of electronic-form documentation such as schematics, layouts, block-diagrams.
• long term research in the interest of the client
• Providing limited training or technical briefing in particular subject areas.
• Applications engineering assistance (test circuits, creating simulation models, etc.).

Hardware capabilities

Software capabilities and resources