Electronics
Design for custom analog, digital, and power electronics that meet the performance, reliability, and compliance demands of diagnostic and laboratory instruments.
Our Approach
Our team comprises engineers and SMEs with extensive design proficiency in all aspects of electronics design in diagnostic and laboratory devices as well as supporting instrumentation.
Our core expertise includes:
- Requirements analysis and architecture creation
- Design of custom analog, digital and power circuit, printed circuit boards and cable assemblies
- Supplier management, and problem solving (logistical / technical)
- Rapid prototyping of PCBs and cable assemblies
- Design testing and verification
- Manufacturing establishment and transfer to manufacturing
- Regulatory compliance – EMC, Safety, RoHS, REACH
Interchangeable Modules
Modules For Rapid Development
Invetech has developed a platform of interchangeable modules for rapid development acceleration.
We offer these modules as part of our prototyping and design process, utilizing the modules to provide confidence in reliability and performance of our system designs.
Our platform of interchangeable modules is carefully curated and continually updated with new, proven components. This highly flexible platform is compatible with project specific required functions such as:
- Thermal control systems
- Analog inputs/outputs
- Digital input/outputs
- Power device control
- Barcode reading
- Pneumatic control
- Fluorometer excitation generation and emission measurement
- Motion control, discrete control and smart motor designs
Benefits Of Leveraging Invetech’s Designs
- Evolved code bases allowing seamless integration into final product designs
- Developed to medical device class II design QSR’s, product release quality
- Fully supported software stacks, developed for IVD instruments to class B
- Demonstrated reliability from iterative development and on-market systems
- Leverage our Contract Manufacturing supply chain for volume purchasing benefits
- Rapid script development for control of hardware to enable fast iteration prototypes. Fully operational test beds established within a matter a days
Test and Measurement Facilities
Electronics Laboratory
- Extensive library and access to connectors, integrated circuits and passive components
- PCB reflow oven for rapid prototype assembly
- Single sided PCB manufacturing
- PCBA inspection and rework stations
- Cable making housings, wires, crimps and hand crimpers for fast harness construction
- High bandwidth oscilloscopes for measurement and protocol analysis
- Logic analyzers, waveform generators and complex signal analysis
EMC Testing Laboratory
- Semi anechoic chamber
- Radiated and conducted emissions measurement
- Conducted immunity tests (Surge, RF, Transient, ESD)
Environment Facilities
- 2m x 3m chamber
- Temperature regulation from 15°C to 60°C
- Humidity regulation from 30 to 90% RH
Additional Technical Expertise
Key Building Blocks Of Electronic Design
- Serial and parallel communications protocols
- Power management, conversion and design trade-offs
- Component management, including regulatory compliance and life cycle management
- Digital design – MCU, MPU, FPGA, DSP, digital logic
- Analog design – bandwidth, voltage translation, stability, noise, impedance, power consumption
Motion & Control Systems
- High-speed, precision robotics using stepper motors, DC servos, AC/DC motors, and linear actuators
- Designing safety into systems from the start
- Control loop design – open loop, closed loop, stability, fail safes
Sensors, Measurement And RF
- Technologies for pressure, temperature, mass, acceleration, position, proximity, flow, and optical sensing
- Data acquisition and remote sensing
- Signal conditioning, filtering, noise management and digitization
- Wireless communications design
- RF design and electromagnetic coupling
Imaging & Signal Processing
- Optical and electro-optic systems
Image capture and processing
Experience Blended with Technology
Our Experience Allows Us To Identify The Real Project Needs:
- Identification of devices and peripheral power subsystem requirements
- Designing to the final installation limitations at end customers
- Delivering an effective communication interface for users
- Resolving unexpected events such as blackouts
- Planning for environmental impacts and influences
- Managing variable end site facilities power sensitivities
Invetech Seeks To Implement The Right Development Strategy
- Determine the appropriate design strategy to build confidence (Simulation, design approximation, build and test, etc.)
- Develop the electronics architecture with the right level of maturity at major project milestones to enable project goals to be achieved
Tools
- Schematic and PCBA design through Altium
- Simulation in Psice
- Extensive part libraries
- Component lifetime and compliance management
- RoHS compliance via Greensoft partner system
- Component lifecycle management via Z2Data partner system
Why Invetech
Research, design, and validation in the same room.
Our UX team designs alongside the industrial design, software, and human-factors engineering teams that have to deliver on the experience. The design we research and prototype in week one is buildable, validatable, and submittable. Not a deliverable that gets quietly redesigned during integration. And because IEC 62366 alignment is the default, summative validation is something we plan for, not retrofit to.
Areas of Expertise
Reveal user needs and opportunity spaces through contextual and usability research
Imagine and design complete product visions, physical architectures and intuitive user interfaces that are styled according to existing or newly created brand design language, ready for manufacture
Design intuitive, branded digital experiences that seamlessly support the user and manage the broader system
Mitigate use‑related risks and generate documentation that adheres to FDA guidance and IEC 62366‑1 requirements
How the instrument’s tasks, screens, and physical interactions are organized into a workflow the user can hold in their head.
Client Outcomes
Explore strategic possibilities, define a purposeful vision and a path to realization
- Worfklow Transformation
- Co-creation Workshops
- Product & Feature Roadmapping
We partnered with Hologic to reimagine cervical cancer diagnosis user experience with an Al assisted digital cytology workflow
Image courtesy of HOLOGIC, Inc. and affiliates
Uncover unmet user needs and assess usability within healthcare environments
- Discovery Research
- Usability Evaluations
- Human Factors Engineering
Global molecular diagnostics client
We helped a health-tech business to iteratively design and test usability of a Point of Care device for use in multiple US healthcare settings.
Visualize ideas to inspire and align your stakeholders
- Digital Design
- Industrial Design
- Virtual Reality Experiences
Design Challenge
We imagined the future vision of a 2030 sepsis diagnosis laboratory
Design and deliver physical and digital offerings to your customers
- Interaction Design
- UI/UX (User Experience)
- Styling
We worked together with Leica Biosystems to desian, develop and realize the physical interactions and styling of the BOND-PRIME
Related Capabilities
Device Master Record Management
Continuous Improvement & Lean Manufacturing
Value Analysis & Value Engineering
Design for Manufacture & Assembly
Regulatory Ready
Experience Design
Software
Strategic Program Management
Temperature Control
Systems Engineering
Product Lifecycle Management
Consumable Design
Fluidics
Robotics & Motion
Optics
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