Electrical & Software Engineering

    Seamlessly blurring the line between physical products and digital experiences.

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    Expertise for a connected world
    As the line between digital and physical continues to blur, increasingly complex product experiences call for integrated processes.

    Electrical and software product engineering work with multiple disciplines to produce merged deliverables for frequent customer validation. Constant collaboration and testing lead to richer, deeper customer engagement, and more successful products.

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    Solving complex technical problems

    Proving out robust and clever technological, mechanical, and electrical solutions, Delve rapidly and rigorously move product ideas to launch with deep expertise in:

    • Systems thinking
    • Electrical hardware development
    • Embedded software
    • Software product engineering

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    More often than not, designing your cool new product relies on some new widget. You’re not sure if you should design your own or buy one from a supplier. What if there was a straightforward way to decide?
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    Our Work

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    “With resources being tight and timelines even tighter, we partnered with Delve to see if we could get the product to market faster."
    — Jim Uphoff, Entertainment Fixture Product Manager, ETC
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    The Gen 3 device is a step up in capabilities, ease of use, and quality of interactions while remaining true to the brand’s look and feel.
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    Phlex: Edge, The Swimmers’ Wearable
    Phlex's founders envisioned a fitness tracker for swimmers, by swimmers. They knew firsthand that swimmers have different needs than runners and cyclists.
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    A whirlwind product development journey led to a thrilling launch for an IoT "surround-body" wearable that uses haptics to create an immersive experience.

    Engineers constantly balance two roles

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    Engineers constantly balance two roles: The engineer responsible for understanding and mitigating risk, and the product developer considering the ideal customer experience and wanting to delight.
    — Jesse Darley
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    Delve has long been a go-to shop for creating rugged, mission-critical products. The communications equipment required for IoT devices adds an extra twist.
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    Successfully troubleshooting these problems prior to product launch is in everybody’s best interest, and can be the most rewarding part of a project for an engineer.
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    We opened up wearables from leading companies to see how so much was packed into something so little.
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    Our Electrical Engineering Team

    Electrical and software engineers at Delve are experts at solving complex design challenges and have decades of experience in RF, analog design, embedded systems, and firmware and software development.

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    Electronic & Software Product Engineering Services

    Systems Thinking

    • Specification Development
    • Architecture Conceptualization
    • Functional Partitioning
    • Closed Loop Control
    • System Protection Definition and Solutions
    • EMI/EMC Compliance Solutions
    • dFMEA/FTA
    • Signal Integrity Simulation and Analysis
    • Hazard Analysis
    • Design for Manufacturability
    • Design for Service
    • Design for Test

    Electrical Hardware Development

    • Analog Circuitry
    • Digital Circuitry
    • Power Electronics
    • Embedded System Firmware
    • Digital Signal Processing
    • Motion Control
    • Battery Management
    • RF Integration (WiFi, Bluetooth (Classic, LE, 5), 802.15.4/Zigbee, LoRa, Cellular, RFID, NFC)
    • Communications Interfaces (USB, RS484, RS232, Ethernet, I2C, SPI, CANOpen)
    • LED Lighting
    • FPGA Programming
    • Circuit Board Layout
    • Prototyping
    • User Interface Development
    • Optical System Development

    Firmware/Software Development

    • C/C++/C#/VB/Java
    • Python/LUA/JavaScript/SQL
    • React Native
    • QT Framework
    • TouchGFX
    • Agile Development Methodologies
    • HTML5/CSS
    • Static Code Analysis

    Software Application Development

    • Android
    • iOS
    • Windows
    • Embedded Linux

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