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Promwad Innovation Company

Promwad is a leading local provider of embedded systems development services in Eastern Europe and Russia. Combining creativity and technical expertise, Promwad offers state-of-the-art embedded solutions for various industries. The company relies heavily on innovation and cutting-edge technologies to provide a wide spectrum of reliable hardware solutions and applications.

Promwad Innovation Company provides on-demand hardware development, on-demand software development, migration and integration services for embedded software, hardware and software selection consulting, testing and quality assurance services. Please find out more about embedded design services we provide.

Case studies

Promwad team has developed a prototype of a multimedia Smart Home control panel with touch screen display. The control panel is based on SoC Cirrus Logic EP9307 and contains Ethernet 10/100Mbit, USB host, Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) interfaces. The board support package (BSP) was developed on the basis of the initial loader U-Boot and the Poky Linux operating system for ARM processor. The drivers for the power management and the driver for the presence sensor were developed too. The Power-over-Ethernet technology for circuit power supply is implemented to the board.
A universal audio streaming player prototype is successfully completed. The circuit board is based on Blackfin ADSP-BF533 processor from Analog Devices, Inc. The platform contains USB 2.0 (Host, OTG, Slave), Wi-Fi, CFII+, Ethernet 10/100 BaseT, S/PDIF, RS-232 interfaces. The board support package (BSP) is developed on the basis of uCLinux operating system. BSP comprises memory drivers, USB mass-storage controller driver and energy-saving mode control driver. Several drivers have been additionally adjusted to the Blackfin platform.
Promwad team has developed a device prototype for video recording in JPEG2000 format on the basis of ADV202 BF-Expander debugging kit for Russian company - developer and manufacturer of midget systems for digital recording of audio and video information. The prototype allows video recording in Motion JPEG2000 format to USB Flash drive. We developed a program module, which saves frames received from ADV202 to a video stream. To support hardware compression of JPEG2000 Promwad team developed ADV202 driver.
Promwad has completed custom-designed operating program for advertising display controllers for the leading Russian enterprise that produces large and extra-large LED information and advertising displays. This software platform is based on SUSE Linux10.2 operating system. It contains display emulator with preview function. The operating program allows working with different resolutions of advertising displays and it supports various image color modes. The user’s interaction with internal functions of visualizer is provided via graphical Web-interface.
The developed system is based on a specialized Linux OS distribution containing Open Source applications required for playback of a great number of graphical, video and office file types: MPEG, WMV, AVI, MOV, VOB, QT, ASF, JPG, GIF, PNG, TTF, BMP, SWF, HTML, PDF, ODP, PPT. The system supports Split Screen mode to display several applications at the same time. Added functionality for event logging, which allows generating various reports on the content played back.
On the basis of ADSP BlackFin BF532 Promwad developed simulator platform controller designed for use in amusement industry. The device calculated spatial coordinates and defines platform position on the basis of data from simulator-program. The circuit contains USB 2.0, 6xRS-485, RS-232 interfaces, six analog channels for controlling motor inverters, six ADC inputs for direct connection of rotation angle sensors.
By customer demand the Promwad company has developed a WiFi-ZigBee-USB expansion daughter board for the popular development kit from Analog Devices ADSP-BF533 EZ-KIT Lite. Embedded Linux board support package has been developed too. The developed WiFi-ZigBee-USB extender card is compatible with the other Blackfin processors developer's toolkits such as ADSP-BF537 EZ-KIT Lite or ADSP-BF561 EZ-KIT Lite.
Promwad team developed a device for remote control of information board for a Russian customer. The controller is designed on the basis of SoC RDC R8610 with application of almost all available interfaces and buses: Ethernet, USB, LPC, PCI, X-BUS, GPIO. The device has embedded Linux, Web-server and Web-interface.
We designed a data hub hardware-software solution for an automated power supply monitoring and control system on demand of the Russian manufacturing company. The digital platform was developed based on System-on-Chip Atmel AT91RM9200. The controller was provided with RS-485, RS-232, Ethernet 10/100 Base-T, GSM/GPRS, SPI and PLC interfaces. The board support package (BSP) for AT91RM9200 board was also developed including optimized version of Embedded Linux operating system and necessary Linux device drivers.
JV "Proscan Special Instruments" resorted to our service of "CPLD programming". We developed a number of IP core controllers, ISA, DMA, SDRAM, CMOS of the sensor Fillfactory LUPA-4000-M. On the basis of Xilinx picoBlaze CPU core and developed IP cores, we developed CSoC projects for HS-301F-1 and HS-301F-TEM cameras that were further mass produced by the client.
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Events
3- 5 March 2009, Nuremberg, Germany
Embedded World 2009. The leading European exhibition and conference for the Embedded Community covering all areas of Embedded System development. Among the others the conference will be devoted to the points of Embedded Linux, automotive software development & test, system on chip solutions, embedded system architecture, successfully implementing ARM etc.
11-12 February 2009, Farnborough, United Kingdom
Southern Electronics 2009. Southern Electronics 2009 is UK's largest regional manufacturing technology, electronics and subcontracting exhibition. It is a specialized event for engineering, technical and procurement managers. It is concerned with all aspects of electronics systems and sub-systems for all aircraft types.
News
23 December 2008
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12 December 2008
On 4th December, 2008 The 1st All-Russian Embedded Systems Conference dedicated to electronics developers and manufacturers took place in Moscow. Promwad’ leading experts on embedded systems design participated in this event. more >>
08 December 2008
IV International business-conference “Top-Management: Power of Innovations” took place in Minsk on November 21– 22 2008. Promwad’s spokesman Roman Pakholkov – CEO of the company – made a report “Ecosystem – innovative way of development”, which set forth company’s position and views on managing an innovative business. more >>