Can casual outerwear lead to great hardware, firmware and software?

About Attero Tech

Attero Tech, LLC is a company of many hats. For a variety of OEM clients, we're a design engineering firm: hired guns who rustle with system, hardware and firmware designs, with the manufacturing services to see your designs through to a physical product. We can work directly with your team, or take a task home with us and return to you with a prototype or full-on production model, turnkey-style. Take a look at our full list of capabilities at the bottom of this page, and note that we don't have any industry specific engineering bent.

Our design team is industry-agnostic, but we also have a range of ready-made OEM solutions for the A/V industry. We bring together diverse skills in analog and digital audio design, video compression/decompression/transport, and wired/wireless networking specifically aimed at real time delivery of media content, to name just a few. And, we've been working with companies like Cirrus Logic since back in the day, so we know audio over CobraNet like the back of our hand. Check out our silicon, board, and module-level AV solutions, they're designed to make it simple for OEMs to integrate networked audio into their existing analog and digital devices.

We're hardcore
about staying loose

Nothing stifles innovation like a humorless, buttoned-up work environment. That's why we cultivate a laid-back atmosphere with attire that says, "Hey, check that corporate attitude at the door." It's one of those intangibles that keeps us on the top of our game so we can deliver maximum ROI on your design, software or engineering project.

Oh yeah, one other way we have come to understand the business needs of OEMs. We've become one ourselves. Attero Tech develops and sells innovative networked audio products that finally make it cost effective for just about any audio installation to include CobraNet. Sound reinforcement guys love it because it means less overhead and more application flexibility, and A/V OEMs have found that our cost-effective "innies" and "outties" give system designers much more incentive to use their big-iron DSP processors.

About now, you're probably thinking, "Attero Tech must have multiple personality issues". While Attero Tech does many things, there's a common thread that runs through everything we focus on: an unmatched passion for developing groundbreaking products. Whether we're developing a product for an OEM client, or one for our own brand, we bring the same dedication to ensure that the end result is just the right fit for the application.

Attero Tech is not just a hardware and software development company. We have deep experience in the entire design cycle, from product concept to manufacturing—all of which is available to our clients. Let us help you realize your product vision.

Whether creating optimized systems, complete hardware solutions, or robust, maintainable and extensible software, we take the time to know you, your market and your product before we write the first line of code. It's our way of ensuring that the outcome fulfills your requirements and delivers the return on investment you need. Here are some of the tools we use:

SYSTEMS

  • Customer requirements extraction & analysis
  • Hardware & software design documents & verification plans
  • System validation plans
  • Product software & functionality testing
  • Project planning (using MS Project)
  • Schedule & budget tracking & management

SOFTWARE

  • Embedded networking (TCP/IP, SNMP, UDP, USB, CobraNet®, etc.)
  • 2.4GHz wireless transceivers (802.15.4 & ZigBee)
  • RTOS development, porting & application (including embedded Linux)

  • Audio DSP development & H.264 video compression applications
  • Data transport protocol development & enhancement
  • PC hosted Windows/Linux application development
  • Industrial applications
  • HVAC applications

HARDWARE

  • Tools: Mentor Graphics PADS and Altium for schematic & PCB layout
  • Analog Design: low-noise audio signal processing, video (baseband & HDMI), network interfaces (through 1Gb/s), PWM audio amplifiers (up to 100W), and linear & SMPS power supply design
  • Digital Design: 8 to 32-bit microprocessors (including high-bandwidth memory interfaces), CPLD & FPGA design, DSP, and system-on-chip (SOC)

  • Pre-certification Testing: FCC Part 15, CE radiated emissions & ESD pre-screening of prototypes
  • Manufacturing: provide direct manufacturing of small to medium quantities (up to 5000/yr), and relationships with Asian CMs for high volume production

AT WARE

  • CobraNet LE: Low cost CobraNet connectivity
  • AT Basic: language & development environment