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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Circuit design and development
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Design review,
proposal assistance, and troubleshooting
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Fully equipped wireless,
rf, and analog laboratory --DC to 26.5 GHz -- including an Agilent 8510C vector network analyzer with the time domain option covering 45 MHz to 26.5 GHz
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Circuit board layout using
P-CAD and ACCEL EDA (Tango)
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Wireless, rf, and microwave
design
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Analog circuit design
and development
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Software development
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Simulation and analysis
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GPS (global positioning
satellite) applications
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Engineering services
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Antenna
site location, pattern, and similar studies
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Propagation
modeling, prediction, and studies for cellular, PCS, wireless internet,
and similar wireless systems
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Prototype design and development
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FPGA software development
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Embedded software development
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Spread spectrum systems
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Antenna design and development
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Training services
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Documentation
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Technical writing and
publication
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Internet consulting and
web authoring
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Literature and data
research and retrieval
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DSP design
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Receiver design and development
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Synthesizer and PLL (phase
locked loop) design and development including phase noise measurement with
HP-8563E spectrum analyzer and phase noise personality
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Amplifier design and
development
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Transmitter design and
development
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Technical business evaluation
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IEEE-488 test equipment
programming in various programming languages
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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