Julie Lavallee

Orchid Technologies on Ulitzer Cough-assistance requires the production of pressurized air. That air pressure must be controlled with great accuracy throughout the cough-event. During the cough-assisting process, airflow through the motor system changes rapidly. These changes cause large, step-function changes in the motor’s load. To function correctly, motor control electronics must rapidly adjust to these rapid changes in motor load. PID motor speed control with advanced feed-forward control techniques permits precise motor speed control. The design was divided into three different circuit boards:  the main controller responsible for the keypad input and driving the display electronics.  A motor-controller circuit board responsible for all the input power, battery power, external communications and driving the low back-emf, high speed DC brushless motor that runs... (more)

Intel ATOM Design

Orchid Technologies on Ulitzer Intel Corporation's ATOM processor and low power chipset solution is a technology choice which cannot be overlooked. With the potential for wide application in deeply embedded, low power, fanless industrial, medical, communications, automotive and consumer applications this technology demands attention. Orchid Technologies, a developer of custom electronics product solutions, can help. With their new ATOM processor technology core design, that combines your custom electronic hardware with an ATOM processor core. The result is a highly integrated c... (more)

Orchid Technologies' latest circuit board design features dual Altera Cyclone devices.

Orchid Technologies is an old hand at Altera FPGA and CPLD design and development. Working within Altera's new Quartus environment gives Orchid much greater design control. Orchid inputs design data in AHDL, Verilog or VHDL depending upon the required FPGA performance. Altera PROBE signals and Quartus' rapid compile time permits enhanced debug and timing verification, once the design actually hits the lab bench. Quartus simulation and test bench facilities allow pre-verification of the design before circuit board implementation. Using on-chip synchronous SRAM, Orchid implemented... (more)

Paul Nickelsberg President of Orchid Technologies featured in ECN magazine

Our main concern when designing new products is design elegance. By design elegance I mean the achievement of the most economical and effective electronics design possible. Achieving design elegance is working toward implementation simplicity while still meeting the technical objectives of the product requirements. An old friend once put it this way - I strive to take the tension our of my designs. By this he meant, that in every design there are areas which as a designer one knows did not come out so well, or seem to complex, or appear error prone, or may simply just meet speci... (more)

Custom Electronic Product Design

Chip Design on Ulitzer From Atom to Multicore Processors, Orchid Technologies can design a custom Intel Architecture solution to meet your specific requirements. Orchid's Core2 Quad Processor board is feature packed. Designed for ruggedized operation in a small air-cooled package, our Core2 Quad Processor design is alone in its class. Critical to the success of any custom Intel Architecture design is the Embedded Controller. Orchid has developed and ported numerous Embedded Controller designs. These designs, based on Renesas 2117 and Renesas 2472 H8 processors offer ACPI, PS2 ... (more)