Projects by MCD Ltd Projects

We can offer the following:

  • Microcontroller solutions
  • Tailored firmware/software
  • Analogue and digital hardware design
  • Mensuration and GPIB experience
  • Turnkey supervision to prototype and pre-production
  • Logging systems

Keylog project - link to Barloworld
  • Access control systems.

  1. 68705 peripherals communicating over RS485 network to 64180 controller.
    Programming/logging station for the system running on IBM PC.

  2. A network of stand-alone door controllers supporting RFID technology and with a packet interface to a host programming/logging station.
    The programming station implemented in VBA.

  3. Digital door lock.
  • Control and user interface software for 0.01% accuracy temperature meter, in Polyforth target to 647180X

  • Weather station logging software and hardware interface for IBM PC.

  • A concentrator and interface for HDLC at 128 k bits/sec on a switched star system for BT.

SPDM project - link to Vehicle Developments website
  • Implementing a risk analysis data processing program for the Dutch police in association with Cranfield University. Written in Uniface (4GL) on VAX under VMS.

  • A data collection and computation system for the NAMAS calibration of pressure gauges with some automation using GPIB control.

  • A microcomputer based controller for a private mobile radio hill top radio transceiver.

  • CADS parachute control system. Remote manual guidance and homing to a radio beacon.

 

  • GPIB talker/listener interface for 3-tone test set RF amplifier.

  • A self-contained controller with keypad, LCD display and printer for sequencing a pill dissolution tester and fraction dispenser.

  • Controller for tablet and spheroid coater.

  • A compiler to turn Finite State Machine flowcharts directly into assembler macros or tokens for a run time interpreter. Initially conceived for part of a project controlling a vacuum test system.

  • EPOS terminals networked over RS485 using Dallas Ibuttons for till operator identification.

  • Vehicle logging using GPS location and Palm Pilot as Data Shuttle/Programmer.
  • Embedded FTP server implementing the File Transfer Profile of Bluetooth with the SieMo S50037module.

  • Vehicle Anti-Hijack system, using short range radio frequency communications

  • Crash analysis recorder intended for public service vehicles.

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