Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. -- Jonathan Schattke

CIRCUITS AND EXAMPLE PROJECTS

• AirBorn Electronics Custom Design Service (below)
• Example project: Serial to parallel converter - quite a small project
• Example project: Fully documented weighscale, (a large project)
• Example project: Hseti PCB - AT89C2051 serial COMs to LED driver
• Example project: A current loop tester (Ex-Danfoss)
  
• Really basic circuit: "Trivial" RS232 protocol monitor
• Simple idea: An access key communicating with light
• RS232 to RS485 converter - DB9 to RJ12, RTS control
• A test tone Generator, microprocessor based
  
• How to use a multimeter
• Example designs: AirBorn Electronics Circuit Design Library

The Steps in the design of a new Electronic product

ELECTRONICS DESIGN

The Stages in Designing a new electronics product, in more detail
• Design: The Specification
• The Circuit Design
• The Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Layout
• The PCB Etching process
• Prototyping an Electronic design
• Firmware - Software for Electronics
• The PCB and design documentation
• Production run manufacture
• Test Procedures for a new Electronic Development
• ECOs and version numbers

A design project completed for a large Australian client in 1995

• Photos: AirBorn Custom designs Page 1
• Photos: AirBorn Custom designs Page 2
• Photos: AirBorn Custom designs Page 3
• Photos: AirBorn See an Electronics factory
• Photos: AirBorn Electronics Workshop Projects being debugged
• Example Project Details: Firmware for Energy management product

The thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down. -- Mary Pickford

SPEC'ING OUT YOUR PROJECT

• A how-to guide to electronic design: The steps to making a product, in brief
• The steps to making a product: Specifications
• Specifying a new design: How to put together a specification
• Specifying a new design: Technical ingredients
• Specifying a new design: Example specifications
• Selecting a subcontract electronics design house
• AirBorn Electronics subcontract custom design

SERIAL & 8051 TYPE CPUs

• Connecting RS232 Devices to a PC
• R232 to RS485 converter
• Serial to parallel converter

• Flash programmable 8051 CPUs
• Recommended Flash programming header
• 2 Wire Input Output for 8051 type CPU's
• Past produts
• AT89C2051 programmer - we still backorder our programmer, but we no longer actively promote it

PCB CAD & AUTOTRAX

• Autotrax Video drivers
• Overview: Our CAD library
• Complete detail: Our CAD library
• Sign up to receive Our CAD library
• Autotrax driver: Printer to graphics file
• Autotrax to Gerber file conversion

• Autotrax XP Video driver (works, but not great)
• Autotrax and XP (why it all works, but not great)
• Autotrax, XP and NTVDM issues
• Useage issues with Autotrax
• Tutorial on PCB layout
• Some extra Autotrax Utilities

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock 1869-1944

• Inspiration and Design
• Economics of R&D
• Economies of Scale

• Our PicoBus IO Standard
• Tutorial: Virtual Device Drivers 16bit >> 32bit
• Designing a PCB Sparkgap
• How flameproof is FR4 (the main PCB base material)

• Reference links- this lot out of date, sorry

• Our contact details & a one sheet summary of our work
• Our enquiry form
• A currency converter
• Keep up to date: Our Newsletter (Every 2-3 Months, email)

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. -- Wernher von Braun

• We have 32 years of successful electronics design experience
• Our work is inventive, creative, and up-to-date
  We have a structured step-thru technique for designing boards
  • We have templates for each step - for speed accuracy
  • The documentation is done at the same time as the design work - therefore the documentation is good and thorough

AirBorn Electronics specialties are microprocessor based electronics, serial communications and top class real time software.
• For applications requiring small microcontrollers - AirBorn Electronics uses 8051 family microprocessors (the most prolific on our planet). These range in size from the tiny Atmel AT89C2051, a 20 pin 2 kilobyte FLASH memory micro, (for which we also make a programmer), to the Dallas 80C320 family, with performance that starts to reach into the 16 bit micro arena.
• Serial communications - AirBorn Electronics projects regularly involve RS232, RS422 and RS485 interfacing, both to PC's, modems, and as stand-alone communications between microcontrollers. We have experience with the mechanics of serial communications - implementing protocols, error checking, addressing, buffering.
• Real time software - AirBorn Electronics real time software has been used to make robots move, control building plant, count coins & ballots, open doors... software is the heart of today's electronics, and we write good software.

One special line of design work we do is Serial Data Conversion units - manufacturing an interface to existing equipment or protocol. Sometimes the requirement is for Serial to Serial conversion (the unit pictured does this function), but more often one side is serial, and the other side is something special - e.g. a set of relays, a DTMF telephone dialling interface, or totalisator meters.

The Units pictured are one of a line of standard hardware products we make - they are protocol converters. This particular D25-D25 converter fits in a standard inline case and supervises a modem.

Custom units to manage protocol conversion are available to order. Also available Serial to parallel converter - program, circuit and assembler, and RS232 To RS485 converter.

Contact us - full details here or email
Quality custom electronics at the right price -
AirBorn Electronics: www.airborn.com.au
Phone: (61)(2)9640 0774
Mail: P O Box 1491, North Sydney, NSW 2059, Australia
Contact: Steven Murray, Manager

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