Services We Provide
Ball Systems provides custom-engineered solutions for our customers’ unique challenges. We leverage our decades of corporate development experience at companies such as IBM, Compaq Computers, Raytheon, Delphi, Honeywell, and HP, along with comprehensive quality processes and top-tier partners to offer comprehensive engineering and production capabilities in the following areas:
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Testimonials
Pioneer Electronics
The quality of the Ball Systems solutions was extremely high, and we have recommended Ball Systems to our own automotive customer as a result. Thanks to Ball Systems for all the hard work and patience....
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP)
Ball Systems...managed the overall project in such a manner as to minimize the efforts required by our team. As a result, we were able to focus on much higher value-add activities for our company. Thanks to Ball Systems for all the hard work, and for making our lives easier.....
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Ball Systems Custom Engineering Services
Our staff of multi-disciplinary engineers bring decades of extensive design experience to your most complex problems. While solving complex technical challenges is our specialty, we pride ourselves on also ensuring our solutions and designs are timely, cost-effective, and easy to manufacture.
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• Custom electrical / electronic designs
• Custom embedded systems, firmware, and FPGAs
• Custom PC applications, database integration, etc.
• Custom mechanical designs
• Product development
• Prototyping and early run production
Broad Capabilities:
We focus on technically complex products for industrial, commercial and consumer markets. Most utilize user controls, instrumentation, software and electronics to interact with the user and the product’s environment. For these products, intelligent, interactive features—such as a graphical display, buttons, a touch-screen, sounds, network or wireless connectivity, signal processing and controls—significantly improve a product’s functionality and user acceptance. We heavily rely on the cross-disciplinary strengths of our team to effectively and comprehensively address all aspects of the product development process. Our mission is to create innovative, efficient, and cost-effective solutions.
Custom Electrical Design
• Embedded controller system design
• Processors: Freescale, ARM, Renesas, PIC Microchip, 8051, 80x86, 68xxx, MPC 821, Hitachi H8 family, Z-80, 64180, etc.
• Analog circuits: A/D, D/A, signal conditioning, power supplies, RF, application-specific, etc.
• Digital circuits: DSP, static, dynamic and non-volatile memory circuits, disk controllers, programmable logic devices, LSI controllers
• Systems busses: STD, Multibus 1 & 2, ISA (PC/AT), Smart Card, PC-104
• Custom software, firmware, and FPGA designs
• Protocols: IEEE-488, RS232, RS422, RS485, I²C, Bitbus, Microwire, Custom protocols
• PC-compatible systems design and integration
• Surface mount, thru-hole, and mixed-mode PCB Design
• Multi Layer PCB Layouts using ORCAD, Protels, Circad and others
• Design for RoHS, UL, CE and other regulatory requirements
• Component specification
• Packaging
• Bill of Materials
• Component & Vendor Sourcing
• Part & Tooling Cost Research
• Functional and Thermal Testing and Characterization
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Custom Software and Firmware
• Embedded controller firmware
• Intelligent I/O sub-systems
• Communications sub-systems (CAN, serial, others)
• Acquisition, control, and display sub-systems
• 3-phase power monitoring
• Real-time control and monitoring
• Schedulers (Nemos)
• RTOS (ThreadX)
• File systems (FileX)
• IIC, SPI, SCI, Flash drivers
• Communications control and PLC
• Graphics and human interface (GDI & HMI)
• Database management and integration
• Windows and custom PC applications
• Languages including Assembly languages, C, C++, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, PL/M-51&86, others
• Compilers including: Microsoft, Borland, MASM, Intel, Archimedes, Diab Data, Visual Basic, Code Warrior, others
• File systems (FileX)
Custom Mechanical Design
Our mechanical engineers draw on deep and broad backgrounds to seemlessly address the most complex customer problems. Our mechanical team members serve vital roles in providing such varied capabilities as:
• Custom product design
• Design optimization for manufacturability
• 3D CAD modelling
• AutoCAD Inventor
• Solidworks
• In-house prototyping and machining