System Design is in Enea's Genes
Broad competence from overall system architecture to efficient chip design.
With decades of experience, we can honestly say that, today, system design is in our genes. We can help you with everything from the overall system architecture to advanced FPGA design. Our specialty is the design of embedded systems, including both hardware and software. We also offer a number of software products that address a wide range of applications and industries.
- Enea offers complete services for system design, from the creation of a comprehensive system architecture to chip design, either as an advisor or with full responsibility for the project.
- Enea’s specialty is embedded real time systems, but we also offer products and services for a number of other fields
- At Enea, we have developed our own commercial products for decades - in other words: we have a lot of first-hand, hands-on experience with the challenges developers typically meet
The Enea team’s deep knowledge, in both hardware and software design, enables us to functionally partition a system and make intelligent trade-offs on critical issues. With the help of our experienced team of consultants, your project can avoid common pitfalls and deliver a relevant product offering on time and within budget.
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The importance of a good system architecture
The reason projects exceed budget is often the fact that the system architecture is not carefully designed to meet the specific demands of the project. In particular, this happens in large, complex projects running over a long time and engaging a large number of developers.
The overall architecture describes how the system should be organized, from hardware and software to networking and interfaces. A detailed architecture also specifies fundamental data structures and resource management, by providing important guidance for upcoming design decisions during the system development stage.
A sound system architecture enables:
- Parallelization of the Development - Partitioning of the work in order for several developers, or development teams, to work in parallel on the project. (Naturally, this will also require some skilled project management.)
- Product Enhancement - Most products undergo significant change during their lifetime. The change may be due to new requirements, new generations of hardware technology, operating system upgrades, or changes in the external operating environment. This class of change may impact overall system architecture or design. Enea’s vast experience in system architecture and design can help ensure that your system is built to accommodate change.
- Product Family Evolution - It is quite common to derive many product variants from a single standard architecture. A common base platform design can often support an entire family of products – consumer, network aggregation, core switching, etc. The Enea team has expertise in developing product variants for customers, including cases where a system redesign was required to meet such needs.
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A robust system architecture is essential for a successful project. Our system architects work with our customers to define an optimal system and software architecture for each project, and to fine tune that architecture as required throughout the development phase.
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The team at Enea has extensive architecture and design experience from many projects across a variety of industries. We recognize the importance of this phase, and can help create a robust, flexible architecture and overall design for a product family. Since Enea also develops commercial products, we are quite familiar with the challenges faced by development teams.
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• Hardware system, board and chip-level design, including FPGA and ASIC
• Software architecture, partitioning, modular design, and interface design
• Operating system-specific design considerations, including Linux, Windows, or a real-time OS from Enea or other vendors
• Application programming interface (API) design, protocol state machine design, application-level design, network & element management design
• Behavioral Analysis - Oftentimes, deployed products don’t behave as originally planned. Issues may arise with performance, scalability, interface behavior or communication patterns. In such cases, it is often valuable to review the architecture and design to explore whether a fundamental problem exists.
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- Behavioral Analysis
- Oftentimes, deployed products don’t behave as originally planned. Issues may arise with performance, scalability, interface behavior or communication patterns. In such cases, it is often valuable to review the architecture and design to explore whether a fundamental problem exists. A keen understanding of system architecture and design principals is crucial to resolving these issues.
- Product Enhancement
- Most products undergo significant change during their lifetime. The change may be due to new requirements, new generations of hardware technology, upgrades of an operating system, or changes in the external operating environment. This class of change may impact overall system architecture or design. Enea’s vast experience in system architecture and design can help ensure that your system is built to accommodate change.
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- Product Family Evolution
- It is quite common to derive many product variants from a single standard architecture. A common base platform design can often support an entire family of products – consumer, network aggregation, core switching, etc. The Enea team has expertise in developing product variants for customers, including cases where a system redesign was required to meet such needs.
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Enea offers full service solutions for every aspect of the product development lifecycle.
- Strategy, planning and requirements
- Certification
- Implementation
- Test and Quality Assurance
- Support and Maintenance
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