HISTORY
Electronic Design Lab, Inc. was formed in 1966 and incorporated in 1971 with a mission to provide quality design services in the areas of new product development, production automation, and quality control testing. The company now offers full service from the design to prototypes to manufacturing and will provide any portion of the job the client requires. Our client list includes industrial and medical equipment companies as well as marketing firms specializing in design and production of commercial products, electronic point-of-purchase display systems, and consumer products.
The Smart Autodialer product line manufactured by our subsidiary, Communication Research Inc., was purchased by Comsat Telesystems in 1984. Our telecommunications products have been FCC part 68 and part 15 approved and have gone into large-scale production. Starting in 1985, Electronic Design Lab created a programmable instrumentation system that runs in a PC with a new and unique software front panel concept. We raised venture funding to continue the development, production and preliminary marketing under the new corporate name of Virtual Instrument Corporation. The software was ahead of its time and received considerable attention from all instrument manufacturers. In 1989, National Instruments bought the product and Virtual Instruments became part of their LabVIEW product line.
Today, Electronic Design Lab has a complete laboratory for the design and development of hardware and software as well as production facilities for assembly and testing of printed circuit boards. We have in-house specialists for circuit design, prototype fabrication, CAD-generated PC Board artwork, and software development for numerous platforms.
We also have extensive experience in the design and construction of all types of analog and digital circuitry, including the treatment of low-level signals in a high-noise environment and fast digital signals up to 1600 MHz in ECL and 125 MHz in CMOS. Our standard practice includes instrumentation front ends for a variety of transducers such as tachometers, encoders, ultrasonic, infrared, position sensors, and thermocouples. We often use microprocessors embedded in products and write real-time software to produce smart systems, and our custom-designed user interface panels are on award-winning products.
Electronic Design Lab also has expertise in such battery-powered systems as smart chargers and monitors for Lead-acid, Nicad, NIMH, and Lithium-ion batteries. One of our current design and research focuses is on energy programs, specifically in the areas of energy efficiency, photo-voltaic generation and energy storage. We continue to explore proprietary energy storage technology and Lithium-ion pack protection circuits.
Regardless of the size or lifespan of the project, Electronic Design Lab continues to take on full responsibility for managing the project and offers long-term support on every project.