Case Studies by Technology

Derbyshire County Council
Specification, design and development of a Pocket PC 2002 application allowing Council surveyors to create and update building surveys electronically whilst onsite.

Operating System: Windows®CE
Development Skill: Application Embedded

Land Instruments
A USB connectivity solution for a thermal imaging camera, for downloading pictures to a PC in harsh or inaccessible environments. The target firmware was designed for Motorola MPC823 Power PC and a USB client driver was produced for Windows.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®2000
Development Skill: Embedded Device Drivers Comms Protocols

Global independent semiconductor company
A flexible parallel port device driver designed to work with an in-circuit emulator. The driver supports SPP, EPP and ECP parallel ports on PC platforms.

Operating System: Win9x WinNT
Development Skill: Device Drivers Comms Protocols

A world-leading silicon IP company
A tool chain development project including real-time trace facility.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Windows application Time critica Comms Protocols

NMI Electronics
Development of EJPC/JTAG Protocol Converter

Operating System: Windows®CE
Development Skill: Embedded Comms Protocols

Multinational silicon vendor
Toolchain development, mainly debuggers. Includes embedded code, device driver and Windows GUI application and testing.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT 2Ks
Development Skill: Embedded Device Drivers Windows application

NEC Electronics
Enhancements to parallel port download application for EMMA and EMMA 2. Added support for Windows 2000 and fixed some problems with ECP and EPP parallel ports for some desktop machines.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT Windows®2000
Development Skill: Device Drivers Windows application

TSL Products Limited
Customised firmware for TSL's Textel Paging Terminal, for use within security alarm applications. To support the more stringent demands of a security installation, the standard firmware was enhanced to offer contingency by routing messages via the mobile/cellular phone network in the event of a failure within the more usual POTS service. In addition, we provided the ability to distribute alert messages via the SMS network in addition to the standard wide area paging facilities.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Embedded

Telesoft
A (portable) Java application for switch management.

Operating System: Windows 95/98 Windows 2000 Windows NT Unix VxWorks
Development Skill: Java application

Leading supplier of primary-rate ISDN products
Numerous device drivers for ISDN cards, providing support for several different cards under Windows NT, Windows 9x, Solaris, Linux, VxWorks and SCO Unix.

Operating System: Windows 95/98 Windows 2000 WindowsNT Unix
Development Skill: Device Drivers

SysMedia
Gateway to connect Teletext authoring applications to networked Teletext inserters. System resilience is particularly critical in the broadcast industry, and the gateway includes numerous features to transparently detect and recover from communications problems.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®2000
Development Skill: Application Comms Protocols

Sphere
Porting a large and complex Windows NT-based PABX server to Unix/Linux. An initial investigation phase at MPC Data took full advantage of our extensive knowledge of multiple operating systems to devise the optimum porting strategy. As a result we were able to complete the porting task in significantly less time than our customer had estimated.

Operating System: Unix
Development Skill: Unix application

Sphere
A sophisticated and feature-rich Windows application for PABX configuration and management. The user is shielded from most of the complexity of setting up a large PABX by intelligent application of default values and user-friendly dialogs, whilst still allowing the more knowledgeable operator full access to all of the facilities. The application provides extensive support for multiple nationalities and languages.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®2000
Development Skill: Device Drivers

A leading developer of wireless solutions for the radio communications industry
Multi-user DECT base communications system with DSP based base station and PIC based belt packs. Currently being deployed by a major international fast food chain.

Operating System: -
Development Skill: Embedded Comms Protocols Time critical

Petrovend
Enhancement of EPOS back-office software for a card-based fuel vending system. The work included addition of fuel tank alarm and monitoring features.

Operating System: Windows®95/98 Windows®NT
Development Skill: Application