Hardware Design and Manufacture
Controls Limited has a wide range of experience in the design and manufacture of microprocessor based control systems. Very frequently there are design trade-offs to be made between hardware and software solutions. Having expertise in both fields, Cigol Controls is ideally placed to help customers take the correct decisions in these instances.
Particular areas of hardware design expertise include
Freescale (formerly Motorola) microcontrollers (9S12, 9S08, CPU32, 68000, HCS12, HC11, HC08, HC05)
Freescale (formerly Motorola) micro-processors such as the 6809 (and related Hitachi devices)
Solid state digital I/O (including short circuit proof outputs)
Rotary encoder interfaces
Serial high speed communication links (eg RS485, Modbus, etc)
Analogue I/O including PID control and low noise 12 bit ADC/DAC hardware design
Efficient low voltage switch mode PSU design
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