01
Industrial & mechanical design
Concept through to CMF and tooling release. Stack-up budgeting, drop and torsion simulation, tolerance analysis against the assembly line that will actually build it.
ID / CMFStack-upToleranceTooling
Business line A
Mobile Devices.
We take a handset from an industrial-design intent to a certified, mass-producible product — and we own the software that ships on it.
Position
We supply the depth. You keep the design authority.
Our mobile practice exists for a specific kind of customer: a brand with a strong point of view and no desire to run a 400-person hardware organisation. We supply the engineering depth; the customer keeps the design authority.
Capabilities
Six disciplines, one accountable team.
02
RF, antenna & thermal
Antenna placement under real hand grips, OTA chamber correlation, and a thermal architecture designed against sustained load rather than a 30-second benchmark run.
AntennaOTA chamberSARSustained load
03
Imaging & ISP tuning
Sensor selection, module qualification and a full tuning pass — 3A convergence, noise and detail balance, skin tone and colour science held to a written brand target, not a vendor default.
3A tuningColour scienceHDRLow light
04
OS & software
AOSP-based builds, board bring-up, a maintained OTA pipeline with rollback, and a security patch cadence committed to in the contract rather than promised in a deck.
AOSPBring-upOTAPatch cadence
05
Validation & certification
EVT / DVT / PVT gates with published exit criteria, reliability and environmental campaigns, and the compliance path for the launch markets agreed before the first build.
EVT/DVT/PVTReliabilityComplianceField trials
06
Production support
Line setup, test-station software, yield analysis and the failure-analysis loop that turns a return into a design change instead of a statistic.
Line setupTest stationsYieldFA loop
Programme model
Six gates. Published exit criteria.
A gate that can be argued past is not a gate. Each phase below has a written exit criterion agreed before the phase starts, and the evidence for passing it is an artefact the customer can inspect — a report, a build, a yield number — not a status colour in a slide.
- P0DefinitionProduct brief, BOM target, market and compliance scope.
- P1ArchitectureSoC and sensor selection, stack-up, thermal budget.
- P2EVTFirst functional builds. Design intent proven or corrected.
- P3DVTDesign frozen. Reliability, RF and imaging campaigns run.
- P4PVTLine proven at rate. Yield and test coverage signed off.
- P5MP & sustainMass production, OTA cadence, field data loop.
A handset programme starts with one honest conversation about the BOM.
Business line A · Mobile Devices
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