Hardware Development

Being a company with expertise in hardware and software design, along with procurement of materials, product design, and knowledge of the required approvals process, we can take projects from concept to retail almost entirely in-house.

We have extensive experience with a wide variety of electronic technologies, so will always know the best way to undertake a project to meet the customers’ requirements.

Please see below for a non-exhaustive list of protocols and technologies we have worked with. All associated photographs are of products designed by SMR Electronics Limited.

  • GSM / GPRS (2.5G) / EDGE (2.75G) / 3G / 4G / LTE
  • SIM card interfacing
  • Protocols including TCP/IP / FTP / HTTP / Telnet / SMTP / POP3
  • Wireless file transfer
  • Remote telemetry
  • E-mail & SMS communication
  • Radio frequency and antenna design
  • 32-bit CPUs
  • Bus design
  • Dynamic RAM – SDRAM / DDR1/2/3 / mDDR
  • Static RAM & Flash
  • EMC design
  • Emulation
  • Software – Systems & application

  • Video & multimedia
  • Cameras & image capture
  • Codecs – MPEG / JPEG / M-JPEG / H.262 / H.263 / H.264 / MP3
  • Video output (TV) – HDMI / Analogue
  • Monitor output DVI / VGA
  • Flat panel LCD / OLED / VFD
  • Protocols – TMDS / LVDS
  • High definition – 720p / 1080i / 1080p
  • Broadcast – DVB
  • 8/16-bit CPUs
  • Low power / low noise design
  • Interfaces – I2C / SPI / RS232 / RS485
  • Serial EEPROM
  • Character & bitmap LCD/VFD/OLED
  • Real-time & low latency software

  • Memory card – SD / Compact Flash / MMC
  • Hard drive – SATA / IDE
  • File systems – FAT16 / FAT32 / custom
  • USB
  • Bluetooth / BLE
  • Ethernet
  • GPS navigation
  • Programmable logic
  • VHDL design
  • CPLDs
  • FPGAs

  • Power supplies
  • Batteries – Lead acid (all types)
  • Batteries – Lithium Polymer / Lithium Ion