Capability Summary

Precision Measurement Inc’s (PMI) design and manufacturing operation focuses on today’s military ground/aerospace needs.  Our engineering and programming staff has over 60 Years of advanced design experience including radar, satellite and UAV command control technologies.  High reliability requirements in aerospace products are the core of our design team’s experience.  Extreme temperature, High-G level vibrations is normal design considerations here at PMI.  Our goal is to provide affordable solutions to the most challenging technological needs.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
Digital Design

• Embedded Real Time Control Systems
• Design/Development of Embedded Command/Telemetry Systems
• Reprogrammable Data-links Utilizing Xilinx FPGAs
• Microcontrollers
• FPGAs
• Advanced Logic Design
• VHDL/Schematic Capture
• Worst Case Analysis
• Timing Simulations
• Embedded Diagnostics
• Data Acquisition/Control
• A/D & D/A Converters
• High Reliability Product Emphasis
• Including such circuits as; bit synchronizers, data generators, error detectors, data encoders,  interleaver, data randomizer and interface circuits. 

RF design

• RF front ends for data demodulators
• RF circuits for up-converters, down-converters, and modulators.  Included BPSK, QPSK, OQPSK, SMSK 8PSK, 16QAM and spread spectrum waveforms
• Modem and phase-locked loop design;  Including carrier recovery loops, data detectors, AGC loops, clock recovery loops, lock detectors, filters, oscillators, frequency multipliers, PN correlators, direct sequence spreaders and de-spreaders.  Commonly used in continuous and burst modems for commercial and military applications encompassing modems with data rates ranging from 75 bps to 800 Mbps. 

Analog Design

• Analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters
• Direct digital synthesis
• Operational amplifiers
• Loop filters
• Threshold detectors
• Auto-calibrations
• Line driver and power regulation circuits.

Programming

• C++
• C
• Assembler
• BASIC
• Technologies:
  • Real-time, multi-threaded, embedded, ISR
  • ActiveX, COM+, MFC, Win32, DLL
  • HTML, PHP, LAMP, XML, CGI
  • X-Windows
  • Data Encryption: RSA, RC4, AES, etc.
  • Sockets, Winsock, TCP/IP, UDP
  • GDI, OpenGL, DirectX
• Operating Systems:
  1.  
     • Windows
     • Linux, Solaris, HPUX
     • OpenVMS
     • PharLap ETS (real-time)
     • VxWorks (real-time)
     • ThreadX (real-time)