Systems Design and Integration

You’ve been laboring in the lab for months getting your benchtop, proof-of-concept setup to produce the real results you want. It involves 2 table tops, 3 computers, and involves clicking in 5 vendor programs, but you’re finally getting a measurement…slowly. How much more work do you have ahead of you to get versions of the electronics, mechanicals, and new software integrated and into a box that you can test out in the real-world? And faster too hopefully?

Kapmetis has experience integrating benchtop hardware in a real world prototype or development system. We have capabilities for in house design of:

• Electronics – We can design custom Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) or help you find off the shelf items that can perform the task at hand.
• Firmware – Custom firmware can be implemented to perform fast or low-level work inside a microcontroller or FPGA.
• Software – Interface with all your various electronics devices as well as your user. Let custom software get you away from manually coordinating different vendor softwares and into a setup where data is acquired or operations are performed in a coordinated fashion, automatically.
• Hardware – Moving items from a stationary tabletop to a smaller unit that must hold everything in place can take detailed design. We can help package your instrument.

Kapmetis specializes in work at the prototype, grass roots phase versus design for mass production.

Applications

Kapmetis has particular experience creating and integrating lab-based or portable spectroscopic systems. Whether LIBS or SIBS emission spectroscopy, TDL type absorption spectroscopy, or various other light-sensing applications, we’ve been there. We have particular experience working with Avantes spectrometers as well.