Precision measurement services

At Blue Lightning Solutions, our skilled engineering consultants can assist you with all your analogue electronics needs. We have a wealth of experience in designing analogue electronic systems for a wide range of applications in a variety of sectors.

Our analogue electronics precision measurement services include:

• Tolerance analysis
• Low-noise circuit design
• Electronic circuit simulation
• Analogue electronic system design

Electronic circuit simulation

We can support you with detailed electronic circuit simulation that allows us to fully explore the detailed operation of all the components in the analogue electronics. We use tools such as SPICE and MATLAB to create the circuit simulation model.

Once the model has been created, we use these tools to carry out further detailed analysis of the system, including frequency domain analysis, transfer curve analysis, noise analysis, transfer function analysis, and transient analysis.

Low-noise analogue circuit design and layout

Our consultants are also skilled in delivering low-noise analogue circuit design and layout.

When dealing with precision measurements, excluding noise from your analogue signal is often critical. Through the detailed analysis of the anticipated incoming signal, we can carefully select the components in the system to ensure that they are operating optimally and not introducing any extra noise.

We also analyse the power supplies and surrounding components to ensure that we are not inadvertently adding extra noise to the system. Finally, we are able to lay the design out in a way that reduces the potential of any noise interference from other circuitry.

Tolerance analysis

We can also assist with tolerance analysis. This is often an overlooked aspect when it comes to designing precision measurement electronics, but it plays an important role.

Our skilled consultants are able to analyse your circuit to understand how the tolerance of the different selected components may affect the signal. We look at the tolerance changes of the operational temperature range of the product too.

This is often key when looking at low-cost electronics components that may have large tolerances. We can also advise you on how to improve your analogue electronics to reduce the effect that component tolerance may have on the system. 

Many electronics applications require both digital and analogue circuits to work together seamlessly.

Working with both requires careful design to ensure that the signals are able to operate correctly. Our experienced consultants can help you design precision measurement systems with both analogue and digital signals.

We can support you with all your mixed-signal requirements, including:

• ADC conversion
• DAC conversion
• Multiple ground design
• High-speed data acquisition
• Digital signal processing

Sensors play an essential role in delivering precision measurements. But finding the right sensor for the job can often be tricky if you’re working with off-the-shelf devices.

Our experienced consultants can help guide you through the sensor selection process and, if an off-the-shelf model isn’t suitable, they will design a custom sensing solution that meets your specific requirements. We have experience in working with a range of sensor types, including:

• Pressure sensors
• Temperature sensors
• IR and thermoelectric measurements
• Flow sensors
• Ultrasonic and hot-wire sensors
• Electromagnetic sensors
• Geophysical and subsea inspection sensors

We have worked with sensors from a range of different applications, from low-cost sensing systems for consumer electronics to high-precision systems for large industrial or offshore applications.