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Hardware Engineering

Automotive-grade ECU hardware — from schematic capture and PCB layout through prototyping, EMC, and design verification.

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Overview

Automotive hardware lives in a brutal environment — temperature extremes, vibration, EMC interference, and a 15-year service life. Designing ECUs that survive this environment, while meeting cost and weight targets, requires hardware engineers who understand both the silicon and the standards.

At Proaktive Services, we deliver hardware engineering services across the full ECU lifecycle — from concept and architecture through schematic, layout, prototype bring-up, and design verification — for body, chassis, powertrain, and ADAS control units.

What We Offer

Capabilities we deliver.

01

Schematic & architecture

Concept design, component selection, schematic capture, and worst-case analysis for automotive ECUs.

02

PCB layout & prototyping

Multi-layer PCB layout, signal-integrity-aware routing, prototype assembly, and first-article verification.

03

EMC, ESD & environmental

Design-for-EMC, ESD protection, and pre-compliance testing for automotive standards (CISPR 25, ISO 11452, ISO 7637).

04

Design verification & validation

Bench testing, environmental stress, electrical validation, and design-of-experiments to confirm robust hardware behavior.

Toolchain

Tools we work with daily.

Our engineers bring practical experience across the leading toolchains:

Altium Designer
Mentor Xpedition
Cadence Allegro
Saber
LTspice
ANSYS SIwave
Keysight ADS
Lauterbach
Vector CANoe
Why Proaktive

Three reasons teams choose us.

Automotive-grade discipline

Every design starts with the AEC-Q stress profile, not consumer assumptions — reliability built in, not bolted on.

Concurrent SW awareness

Our HW engineers work alongside our SW team — boards designed with debug, calibration, and diagnostics in mind.

EMC pragmatism

Pre-compliance testing built into the design loop — fewer late-stage surprises before final certification.

Let's Talk

Have a Hardware Engineering project?

Tell us about your scope, timeline, and standards — we respond within one business day.

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