Product Development Services

Sound Factory believes that there is great value in helping manufactures to produce better products. We provide product design services, product evaluation, pre-compliance testing and can assist with full compliance certification.

We can also meet your needs for specific design engineering services. If you want to complement your in-house design engineering staff with some of our engineering resources, we can provide expertise in a variety of technical areas and engineering disciplines.

Our Capabilities

• Product development from concept to manufacturing
• Analog and digital circuit design
• Compliance testing
• Product evaluation
• Standard engineering documentation for manufacturing
• Circuit simulation
• Acoustic evaluation and design
• Schematic capture and PCB layout
• Mechanical and user interface design

Our Specialties

• Audio product development
• EMC evaluation and design
• Switching power supplies
• Ultra low noise power supplies
• Specialized audio processor design
• Power amplifier and powered speaker designs
• EMC compliance certification

We believe for a product to be a solid design, EMC/EMI must be considered from the beginning and all the way through the electrical and mechanical design process. We work with our specialized partners in this field to provide solid designs that yield positive pre-compliance testing results. We offer a full range of EMC/EMI services to seamlessly take your design from concept to a final product. These engineering services include:

• EMC and EMI evaluation of existing products
• EMC and EMI design for existing products
• EMC and EMI pre-compliance product testing
• Full compliance testing for FCC, CE, CSA, UL, and other certifications

We provide quality analog and digital circuit designs by employing techniques such as controlled low impedance paths, slew rate limiting of fast switching signals, and many others. We define solutions and verify performance by modeling, simulating, prototyping, and comparing with actual measured results. We can analyze your circuit by modeling and simulating for distortion, frequency, phase, and transient responses, as well as Monte Carlo analysis to take into account component tolerances. We can even create audio output files that allow us to “listen” to the simulated circuit before we even build a prototype.