Services
At Gary Stringham & Associates, we offer a variety
of customizable consulting and training services.
Tailored to meet your specific engineering needs, different services are available depending on where you are in
your embedded product development life cycle.
This table shows what services would be applicable in
each life cycle phase.
Each link offers details about each service.
Consultation
Assessment
Do you want to know where you stand on your hardware/firmware development and
integration efforts?
Do you suspect or know that some aspects need improving?
We can conduct an assessment of your organization to determine what areas need focus.
E-mail
or call 208-939-6984 to request an assessment or learn more.
Specification Review
Would you like to avoid chip respins and firmware development delays?
We will review your chip specifications to look for potential problem areas.
We will compare your specifications against an in-depth best practices checklist from
our Hardware/Firmware Interface Standards.
We will review your block- or chip-level external (not internal) specifications
that are given to firmware to develop device drivers.
We can review specifications for new or leveraged blocks, although reviewing new
blocks will provide you with more flexibility for change without
being forced to consider backwards compatibility issues.
Our written specification review report will include the results of the checklist review, including
where the specification does well and where it could use some improvements.
E-mail
or call 208-939-6984 to learn more or to request a quote.
If requesting a quote, include the approximate
number of pages and registers in the specification.
“Thanks to your inquisitive and
creative nature, I think we have together arrived at a couple of significant hardware
contributions that improve the firmware interface and control.”
Jack Meador, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Troubleshooting
Do you have a difficult problem in your embedded product that you are unsure if it is
in hardware or firmware?
Are you experiencing intermittent failures?
Do you have a problem and are trying to avoid a respin?
We have been successful in avoiding millions of dollars in development costs,
chip respins, product recalls, and lost customer orders by
diagnosing and resolving problems.
We love a challenge.
E-mail
or call 208-939-6984.
“I think, again, you
have solved one of the toughest problems for us with your expertise and dedication.”
Ray Xu, Hewlett-Packard Co., Shanghai, RPC
General Consultation
Do you have questions on how to architect your embedded systems product?
Are you trying to figure out the best hardware design for firmware?
Are you trying to figure out how to get your hardware and firmware teams to work together?
E-mail
or call 208-939-6984.
Ask about a free, no obligation, ˝-hour phone consultation.
Training
The Seven Principles Presentation
We will give a presentation on The Seven Principles of Successful Hardware/Firmware
Interface Design.
These seven principles guide your engineers in their design decisions and
help them determine what the best practices should be in each situation.
This 1- to 2-hour presentation can be tailored for managers and/or engineers.
E-mail
or call 208-939-6984 to schedule a presentation.
Best Practices Workshop
This 3- to 4-day workshop could save your company as much as $1,000,000
by providing your engineers with a customized set of best practices.
See workshop for more details.
“Gary demonstrated a high
level of professionalism and skill in developing and delivering a detailed training for
the HP engineering team.”
Arch Call, Hewlett-Packard Co.
If you have questions or need help in any aspect of your
embedded development, feel free to contact us.
E-mail
or call 208-939-6984.
We're here to help.
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