CR Control Systems produces marine lanterns for navigation purposes. Their lanterns can be mounted on floating buoys or marine structures, and provide bright LED lights that flash in unique patterns as required by the customer’s application. The lights can be powered by batteries that are charged with solar panels for remote and floating buoy installations. […]

Pivitec is a cutting edge developer of high-end audio equipment for the professional and commercial audio industry. They developed a product line of multichannel Input and Mixer modules that communicate using the new Ethernet AVB standard. Some of the challenges in their designs are co-locating sensitive audio signals on the same board as high-speed Ethernet […]

A Fortune 500 company approached us with a design that included an Ethernet PHY chip that was obsolete and going end of life. They asked MSRK Design to find a newer part that could fit into their existing design with a minimum of changes to the rest of the circuitry. And the resulting design needed […]

Bluetooth systems are growing in popularity for wirelessly connecting sensors in factories, office buildings, and industrial settings to computers that gather the data for analysis and control. While the Bluetooth system is robust, there is often custom firmware installed in the Bluetooth devices, and sometimes that firmware has issues or needs improvements. One of our […]

Everyone is concerned about reducing energy consumption, being smarter about how we use energy, and saving money on energy bills.   Buildings with multiple HVAC units have particular issues—running independently all the units can turn on at the same time and cause huge spikes in energy demand.  With buildings where the occupants are not paying directly […]

The Unmanned Systems team at American Aerospace develops, improves, and operates cost-effective airborne missions using unmanned aircraft.  Sometimes these tiny planes are filled with sophisticated electronics for sensing and surveillance, along with multiple radio transceivers for communicating with the ground control station.  These communication systems need to work together in close proximity, and need to […]