TCB Engineers has significant experience designing electronic circuits and electrical systems for a variety of applications across a wide spectrum of technologies. Our specialization in RF, combined with a wholistic approach, allows us to design market-ready products capable of meeting regulatory requirements with minimal effort. This experience allows us to avoid excessive design turn while meeting or exceeding ancillary requirements such as electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and safety by design instead of iteration.

Our established relationships with local and national test laboratory partners allows us to screen new designs and find issues early in the development process, which can make regulatory certification seem like a formality instead of another costly development phase.

TCB Engineers is comfortable and confident running the entire product development cycle or contributing where needed, from front-end processes such as concept of operations (CONOPS) to back-end processes such as independent verification and validation (IV&V). We follow the SBIR and STTR three-phase methodology to ensure our designs demonstrate a clear path to commercial value as they mature, and regularly engage with research institutions and Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) to further their efforts.

Core Competencies


  • Analog & Power Circuit Design

    Analog Circuit Design is foundational to most electronic systems because physical phenomena must first be converted to digital information before it can be processed to perform a useful function. Ideally, the resulting design is intrinsically safe and guarantees accurate operation over a wide range of operating conditions. In reality, complexity typically scales with accuracy, so a good understanding of fundamentals is required to achieve the needed cost, complexity and performance trade-offs.

    Design Competencies
    Sensor Design, Interface and Conditioning
    Prototyping & Fabrication
    Optimizing SWaP-C, Harsh Environments

    TCB Engineers utilizes our depth & breadth of experience to design novel, elegant solutions to our customers’ most challenging problems. We can help with anything from the design of a signal conditioning circuit to facilitate integration, to focused effort on a problematic circuit, to a complete product design ready for LEAN manufacturing.

  • Signal Processing & Communications

    Signal Processing & Communications involves the mathematical manipulation of time and frequency domain signals. In many cases, an analog signal must first be brought into the digital domain via analog to digital converters (A/D) and is brought back into the analog domain via a digital to analog converter (D/A) after processing. Signal processing mathematics in the digital domain are every bit as important to system performance as that of the analog domain, and it is the combination (convolution) of the two that determines system performance.

    Design Competencies
    Synthetic Aperture RADAR (SAR)
    Software Defined Radio (SDR)
    Ultrasonics & Piezoelectrics, including amplifiers
    Acoustics & Audio Design, including Headsets
    A/D & D/A Converters, Acquisition Systems

    TCB Engineers utilizes a disciplined Systems Engineering approach to ensure requirements are well understood. Modeling & simulation inform our design approach and documentation communicates it to others.

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  • Control Systems

    Control Systems are ubiquitous behind the scenes, whether it’s controlling the water temperature in your coffee maker or an aircraft autopilot flying autonomously. Whether your application is critical infrastructure or an experimental setup, leverage our depth and breath of experience to identify appropriate strategies, design & fabricate, and assist with commissioning activities like verification & validation and certification.

    Design Competencies
    Design & Fabrication of UL-508 Control Panels
    Safety-critical applications in battery, semiconductor and medical industries
    Integration of most National Instruments products
    Compact RIO (cRIO) and FlexRIO for Real-time (RT) and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) applications
    Machine Vision and Precision Motion Control
    Distributed systems over EtherCAT, LoRaWAN, CAN, DeviceNet, and more.
    Internet of Things (IoT) systems over Ethernet, Bluetooth, Cellular and LoRaWAN.

    TCB Engineers has designed point-of-use and distributed control systems for a wide range of industries, including research, medical, food, additive manufacturing, alternative energy, and semiconductor. Our systems can be found in diverse environments from autonomous underwater vehicles to drones, and wind turbines to rocket motors. This breadth of experience allows us to bring a high level of capability & creativity to bear on projects large & small, and the ability to create Value on Day One.

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    See our Test Engineering service offering

  • EMC‐EMI-ESD Design & Mitigation

    EMC‐EMI-ESD Design & Mitigation is largely misunderstood and considered enigmatic by many. In product design, a systematic approach invariably yields reliable solutions. Failure to do so results in compliance surprises that drive profit-killing, late-cycle changes. The trick is to treat EMC as a separate subsystem that requires interdisciplinary collaboration at every level, starting on day one of the project:

    Component Level – Selecting the correct technology and reliable suppliers.
    Circuit Level – Designing & integrating cost effective topologies.
    Sub-Systems Level – Identifying & mitigating likely contributors.
    Systems Level – Product design, package design, and material selection.
    Compliance Level – Validation can be a mere formality if properly planned!

    TCB Engineers has designed EMC systems for a wide range of industries, including research, medical, food, additive manufacturing, alternative energy, and semiconductor. We work directly with customers and test partners to find effective solutions to seeingly intractable problems.

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    See our RF Engineering service offering

  • Optical & Photonic Systems

    Parameterizing photons

    Laser systems integration

    Coherent & Spatial Modulators

    Sprectroscopy Systems, including CRDS

    Ring Laser Systems for IMS and Gyro

  • Engineers First

    Have a difficult challenge? Experience matters.

    All work at TCB Engineers is performed under a Licensed Professional Engineer and we hold close the principles embodied in the NSPE Engineers' Creed.

    Our Engineers are naturally curious and our ability to solve the tough problems is part of what defines us. With expertise in Signal Processing, Applied Physics & Mathematics, RF & Wireless, and Information Systems, we’re prepared to take on novel challenges and deliver exceptional results.

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    See our RF Engineering service offering

    See our Test Engineering service offering

  • Let's Collaborate

    Contemplating a new development or struggling with an existing one?
    Caught in a cycle of wholesale outsourcing?

    TCB Engineers has extensive experience collaborating with customer teams large & small, which allows organizations to augment skillsets instead of wholesale outsourcing.

    Taking advantage of our Engineering Services can help ensure project success by anticipating risks and forming collaborative strategies that avoid cost and schedule overruns.

    Whether it be invention to entrepreneurship, theory to proof, or ConOps to Phase IV, TCB Engineers is uniquely positioned to be a strategic partner in your next project.

Background

Work Product Samples

Most of our work is not in the public domain, but here's a couple examples we can share. 

RF Welder

Balancing size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) isn't easy. See how we helped our customer refresh their product design and maintain their leadership position.
RADAR SAFETY CONTROLLER

We specialize in high reliability designs for harsh environments. See how we engaged in a formal design process to ensure success.
PCBA Test System

Automated test need not be complicated & expensive. See how we helped our customer bootstrap their way into advanced manufacturing.
IoT-Enabled CRDS Sensor for UAV

An academic institution needed a sophisticated UAV payload for research. See how we developed a SWaP-optimized high reliability design with IP-67 rating.