Electronics & Software Development 

Our technology specialists are highly experienced in electronics, software and system design experience in various commercial sectors including avionics, high performance embedded computing platforms, portable computing, broadcast video/audio and communications systems (including both wired and optical). 

We provide software, hardware and systems design, with particular expertise in sustainable solutions. We specialise in the whole product lifecycle from initial feasibility study right through to market launch.

Darren West has over 20 years experience as a designer, system architect and technical manager within a number of product sectors in the electronics industry. With a very strong technical background, engineering degrees from both Loughborough and Cambridge Universities, Darren is a Chartered Engineer and a member of both the Institution of Engineering & Technology and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.  

We provide a broad range of specialist solutions tailored to meet our client's requirements.  Projects may be undertaken alongside the client's own developments, or they can be provided as a totally atomic activity.  Flexibility is a key strength of all of our technical specialists. 

You can contact Darren by email: Darren@mactavishwest.com.au

Examples of activities undertaken include:

• Opportunity assessments
• Feasibility studies   
• Concept development
• Due diligence studies
• Full life cycle product development
• Design reviews (including DFM/DFT)
• Cost reduction analysis
• Appropriate solution/technology evaluation
• Sustainability process audits
• Education
• Best practice research
• Policy generation

If you require:

• design and development of new products - software, hardware, systems
• Circuit and PCB design (multilayer, flexi and flexi-rigid circuits, ceramic substrate designs)
• FPGA design in VHDL, AHDL and Verilog.  Recent designs include Xilinx Virtex and Altera Startix III based solutions
• Processor based designs.  Extensive experience of many families from high end Intel, PowerPC, SPARC, Alpha, TI DSP to highly embedded PIC, MSP430, ARM etc.
  
  We provide the technical expertise, leaving you free to concentrate on your own business.
  
  Our clients include many of the blue-chip companies you would expect to have an interest in state-of-the-art computer design.  For many of these, we are their 'secret weapon'. 
  
  

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