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What CVB Electronics does

Four areas of work. They overlap on most projects: a board is rarely finished until the firmware running on it says so.

01

PCB design & layout

Schematic capture through to manufacturing-ready output. Multilayer boards, mixed-signal work, RF-aware routing, and manufacturability checked from the first placement.

  • Schematic capture and design review
  • Multilayer layout, 2 to 10+ layers
  • Controlled impedance, differential pairs, high-speed routing
  • Power integrity, thermal and EMC-conscious stackups
  • Gerber, ODB++, drill, pick-and-place and BOM output
  • Design for manufacture and assembly (DFM/DFA) review
02

Embedded firmware

Bare-metal and RTOS firmware in C and C++ for 8-bit through 32-bit microcontrollers. Written so it can be debugged, tested, and picked up later by someone who did not write it.

  • STM32, ESP32, AVR, RP2040, Nordic nRF
  • Bare-metal, FreeRTOS and Zephyr
  • Drivers for I²C, SPI, UART, CAN, USB, BLE and Wi-Fi peripherals
  • Bootloaders and over-the-air update paths
  • Low-power design and battery-life budgeting
  • Unit tests, CI builds and reproducible toolchains
03

Prototyping & bring-up

Getting the first article off the bench and working. Assembly coordination, board bring-up, debugging and the iteration loop that follows.

  • Component selection and sourcing with second sources
  • Prototype assembly coordination with fab houses
  • Board bring-up and fault diagnosis
  • Oscilloscope, logic analyser and JTAG/SWD debugging
  • Revision turnaround with documented change notes
04

Review & consulting

A second pair of eyes on an existing design, or help planning one before the money is spent. Useful when a board keeps failing and nobody can say why.

  • Independent schematic and layout review
  • Failure analysis on boards already in the field
  • Cost-down and component obsolescence work
  • Pre-compliance guidance for EMC testing
  • Architecture and feasibility studies

Engagement

Four ways to work together

Fixed-scope project

A defined board with a defined feature list. Quoted as a single price with named milestones and a payment split, typically 40% on start and the rest on handover.

When the requirements are already written down.

Hourly retainer

A block of hours per month for ongoing development, revisions and support on a product already in the field.

For evolving products and long-running maintenance.

Single review

A one-off deep read of an existing schematic, layout or firmware base, returned as a written report with prioritised findings.

Before committing to a production run.

Buy a finished board

Not every problem needs a custom design. We also sell our own boards directly: video bridging, antenna tracking and network streaming hardware, documented and supported, available off the shelf once the shop opens.

When a standard board already does the job.

Rates are quoted per project after a short conversation about scope. Invoices are issued from an Italian VAT-registered entity; EU business customers with a valid VAT number are invoiced under the reverse-charge mechanism.

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Have a board that needs designing?

Send over the requirements, even a rough sketch on paper. You get a straight answer on feasibility, cost and timeline before any money changes hands.

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