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Hardware Miniaturization
You have a system that works on a bench. We make it fit where it actually has to live.
- thickness compression, prototype to target
- mm, ID-1 card footprint
- form factors from one compute core
Most systems are born on a bench: a dev board, a daughter card, jumper wires, a power supply the size of a lunchbox. That version proves the idea, and it cannot ship. Miniaturization is the discipline of taking everything the bench version does and re-architecting it until it fits the space, the power budget, and the thermal envelope of the place it has to live.
The work runs from silicon selection down to the enclosure: re-partitioning boards, designing stack-ups and flex interconnects, resizing the power system around what the product actually draws, and packaging the result so it survives pockets, bar rails, and data-centre floors. Our internal benchmark is a full touchscreen payment terminal, driven from 13-card thickness toward a single standard card, revision by revision.
Method
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Tear down the bench version
Everything gets measured before anything shrinks: current per rail, board area per function, every connector accounted for.
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Re-partition
Functions move between boards, packages drop a size, flex replaces cable. Each pass carries a thickness or area target it has to hit.
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Redesign the power system
The supply gets rebuilt around measured draw, sleep states included. Oversized power is usually where the thickness hides.
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Package it
Enclosure, tolerances, and assembly order designed together, so the small version can actually be built more than once.
Deliverables
- Re-architected PCBs & stack-ups
- Rigid-flex & interconnect design
- Power budget engineering
- Enclosure & mechanical design
- Thermal & current-draw reports
- DFM for small-batch and scale
Bench
- Rigid-flex & multi-layer stack-ups when a fold beats a connector
- 0201 passives · fine-pitch BGA reworked under the microscope
- Per-rail current profiling sleep budgets measured in microamps
- Printed & machined enclosures fit checks in days, not weeks
- DFM review small-batch first, scale without redesign