AEROSPACE CONSULTING

Celebrating 24 years of service to the engineering community

What is Aerospace Consulting?

Aerospace Consulting is an independent wireless, rf, gps, microwave, wireless, and analog design, development, and  consulting firm dedicated to helping clients design and develop wireless, RF, microwave, analog, DSP, and GPS (Global Positioning Satellite)  circuits, systems, and products. The firm is also expert in analyzing and troubleshooting existing client designs. Although the bulk of the activity has been in the areas of RF, wireless, and microwave circuits and systems design and development, GPS applications, and FCC Part 15 unlicensed products, clients have been assisted in other areas as well, including software development, technology evaluation for mergers and acquisitions, expert witness services, circuit and system simulation, technical writing, proposal assistance and guidance, wireless, and GPS applications, spread spectrum technology, and circuit board layout using Accel P-CAD for Windows and P-CAD. Aerospace Consulting has been in business for 24  years, and the principal engineer, Ed Troy , has over 31 years of experience in the areas of wireless, RF, microwave, GPS, and analog circuit and system design and development.   He has worked on many circuits and systems, including transmitters, receivers, synthesizers, phase locked loops, power amplifiers, VCO's, low noise amplifiers, dsp designs, and DDS's (Direct Digital Synthesizers).  Aerospace Consulting has been involved in a wide range of projects, from complex military and avionics products, to low-cost consumer devices.  Aerospace Consulting is committed to solving your engineering and technology related problems quickly and with a high degree of confidentiality. Although Aerospace Consulting has a full RF, microwave, and analog laboratory and software suite, consulting services are also available, on a daily rate, anywhere in the world.  Projects from a few hours to many months duration are considered. Aerospace Consulting works with clients ranging from 1 person startups to multi-billion dollar corporations.

What kind of work does Aerospace Consulting perform?

That is a hard question to answer simply, since the range of work has been so broad, ranging from contract design and development, to consulting on an hourly, daily, or retainer basis, to assisting clients to solve problems with their own wireless or analog designs, or designs they have purchased from others. Producing circuit board layouts on very short notice is another activity that Aerospace Consulting performs for clients. (As many companies have found out from bad experience, it is important to have circuit board layouts for rf, microwave, wireless, and high speed digital boards performed by firms like Aerospace Consulting because they are  highly experienced in rf and microwave work.) Work can be performed at Aerospace Consulting's facilities, or anywhere in the world the client needs assistance. A summary of some of the services that are offered to clients, or products that have been produced, as well as the facilities available, is described below.


With an HP-8563E spectrum analyzer with phase noise and spurious measurement capabilities, Aerospace Consulting is able to quickly and accurately measure the phase noise of synthesizers and oscillators up to 26.5 GHz.  A small, computer controlled antenna test range is available for measuring antennas.  Additionally, with the HP E-4433B ESG-D signal generator, Aerospace Consulting is well equipped to design, develop, and test all of the major digital wireless communications systems, including 3G wireless, and such standards as DECT, GSM, NADC, PDC, PHS, TETRA, W-CDMA, CDMA2000, and multi-tone and multi-carrier systems. These new facilities support both low phase noise oscillator and synthesizer design and development, as well as antenna design and development and digital wireless communications systems, including 3G. Aerospace Consulting also has an Agilent 8510C vector network analyzer system for impedance and S-parameter measurements of circuits components from 45 MHz to 26.5 GHz.

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But I don't have a huge project--I just need some advice, or an independent opinion. Can Aerospace Consulting help?

As you know, there are many huge electronics companies in the world. And, most of them will not give you the time of day unless you have a seven or eight figure job. That is not the case with Aerospace Consulting. While Aerospace Consulting often works with multi-billion dollar corporations, offering assistance with proposal preparation, circuit and system design and development, prototyping, and design troubleshooting, both at the client's facility and at Aerospace Consulting's facilities, much of the work consists of smaller jobs for small to medium-sized companies.

Almost every company and department finds itself, occassionally, behind schedule on projects, or with more work than the staff and facilities can handle. Or, they find themselves with a new design that is just not working as expected. That is the time to call Aerospace Consulting. No matter how good your people are, it is always a good idea to have your design reviewed by someone from outside  your organization, with no pre-conceived ideas about how your circuit or system should be designed, and no biases toward doing things in the way that your department or company has done them before. It may very well be that your design is sound, and there are no hidden flaws that your people missed because they were simply too involved with the project and the design to notice them, but it is always nice to have that second opinion. And, if you are building up the boards, and run into problems, that is a good time to call Aerospace Consulting. With years of experience in troubleshooting other people's designs, both through long years of experience on the bench, and with extensive use of simulation to locate design problems, Ed Troy is uniquely positioned to quickly get your new product up to expectations. After all, reviewing your own design is much like proofreading your own writing-- it is an almost impossible task. I never go to a client's facility to troubleshoot a design without my trusty computer and simulation software. I am amazed at how few engineers use simulation tools to debug a design. Now, most of us use them to perform the original design, but those same tools are invaluable as a debugging tool!

If you would like further information you can download Ed Troy's resume or the Aerospace Consulting capabilities brochure in Adobe Acrobat format. If you need a reader for Adobe Acrobat files, please go to Adobe's download site .

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