Hardware Development
At General Dynamics Canada, Hardware Development is an interdisciplinary process. We develop hardware systems to ensure that the operational capabilities required by the customer are designed into the hardware products. Our current company-wide CMMI Level 5 certification attests to our commitment to process improvement.
General Dynamics Canada specializes in the development of complex embedded hardware products for military applications.
The Hardware Development process at GD Canada involves:
- Working with the customer, System Engineering and Embedded Software Development to understand the current and future operational needs of their communication system;
- Aligning those needs with industry standards and trends as they relate to modern Network Centric Warfare concepts and customer-mandated architectural frameworks ;
- Translating system requirement specifications into hardware requirement specifications, design documents and defining the interfaces between subsystems;
- Designing the high-level hardware design to identify components and their interfaces;
- Working in Integrated Product Development Teams that represent all of the participants in the development of the end hardware products;
- Working with the customer to identify and mitigate technical risks through a structured Risk Management process;
- Working with System Engineering in order to verify the system capability through rigorous System Integration and Qualification testing; and
- Working with the customer to provide Fielding and Product Support of the delivered system.
General Dynamics Canada specializes in the development of ruggedized, conduction cooled circuit card assemblies that meet the operational requirements of our Customers.
The core Hardware Engineering capabilities are:
- Architecture of Electronic Systems,
- Architecture of Electronic Subsystems,
- Embedded Processor Design,
- High speed synchronous digital design,
- TEMPEST and EME compatibility design,
- Analog design including audio and RF,
- Power supply design,
- Analog SPICE simulation and test,
- RTL design for large scale FPGAs,
- RTL design for SoC FPGAs including PPC cores,
- FPGA simulation and test,
- PWB design layout and fabrication, and
- Signal integrity design and analysis.
At General Dynamics Canada, we know that the Customer's operational needs are constantly evolving, and our focus is to ensure that the hardware developed can grow to address these needs. By maintaining a long-range view on both the Customer's needs and the industry trends, we provide software systems that work now and evolve as needs change.
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