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BASIL Networks is a technology solutions research, product design and development firm. All research and design is performed in-house. BASIL Networks does not outsource its technology development. BASIL Networks does outsource PCB fabrication and assembly to selected USA east coast contract manufacturing houses that are under NDA's and other secured contracts in order to protect Intellectual property. For our business capabilities such as Business Plans for technology and market research please review our Products Research Capabilities.

BASIL Networks focus is on new technologies including OEM product development for the industry and government. BASIL Networks provides a total solution incorporating both hardware, firmware and software applications. Keeping the total solution in house allows BASIL Networks to maintain a smooth transition from hardware to firmware to application software, insuring minimum turn around times and the highest quality of service.

SPECIFICATIONS - Technical Specification Document

Before any design may be implemented a Technical Specification Document (TSD) must be available for design direction. This is one of the industries more difficult areas to define and many times work is performed on verbal direction and assumption. Many times rework or design changes must be implemented because of missed or poorly communicated expectations. BASIL Networks along with the client creates the TSD prior to any development. The TSD may be created in as short as one day or extended until both parties are confident that all specifications are documented. E-mails are very important, both before and after a contract is signed, in order to make sudden technical changes that were missed in the initial contract. It is BASIL Networks first priority to meet all technical specifications prior to product shipment.

The Technical Specification Document includes but not limited to:

Overall design specifications.
Interface requirements
Performance requirements
Power Requirements
Component requirements

Once the TSD is approved via e-mail, a contract is created incorporating the TSD along with expectations and milestones. If requested BASIL Networks will also create the contract for a minimal fee and submit it for approval and/or modifications. BASIL Networks will begin the development process when the contract is signed. Additional communications via e-mails during the development process is maintained in order to comply with our development process and the associated development process flow diagrams. Top

HARDWARE / SOFTWARE DESIGN CAPABILITIES

The following tables summarize BASIL Networks design capabilities. These tables are updated as BASIL Networks expand its' level of technology.

HARDWARE DESIGN AREAS

Research & Development to Custom Product development - turnkey

Custom interfacing from platform to platform - analog, digital, mixed signal including RF, CPLD, FPGA, Embedded Processors, x86, NIOS and others.

PCI, PCIe, PCI-X, VXI, VMI and other bus architecture - peripheral design and development

Process Control System design and development including Automatic Test Equipment. Example product flow

Technical documentation, Web presentations and On-Site presentation

HARDWARE DESIGN INTERFACE

Analog Small / Large signal DC to RF, Custom and COTS Sensors Arrays

Digital interfacing cross platform interfaces, SERDES, SPI, CAN, PCI, PCIe etc.

Arbitrary Wave Form Generator (ARB) Design High Speed, 16, 18, 24 bit

High Speed A/D/A signal conditioning including RF

Power and Temperature interface design

OEM Product design, custom controllers

ATE System Design and Development - CAM

FPGA and CPLD Design

VHDL, QUARTUS II Altera, Nios, IDE Xilinx, Actel, Lattice, Atmel.

SCHEMATIC CAPTURE Outline

OrCAD Schematic Capture / Layout Standard C/D Size drawing template or customer specified

EDIF transfer from other packages

PCB DESIGN AND LAYOUT OrCAD Standard Specifications
Trace Width / Spacing	0.006" trace width / 0.006" spacing standard; custom to 2/2 mil trace/width, Hi-volume, 8/8mil
Layers	Up to 16 standard, special order up to 32
Plating	Gold Plating standard to reduce whisker growth; lead and no-lead available.
Components	SMT, Fine Pitch-BGA, QFPs 0603 standard, 0201 minimum.
Component Spacing	0.050" standard, 0.050" from PCB Edge, custom spacing to 0.015"
Hole Size	0.006 inch via finished, 0.003 inch annular ring, 0.025 inch pad diameter standard
PCB Type	FR4 or customer specified. Class 2 standard, Class 3 for Fine,Micro-BGAs & Mill spec.

Drill Tape	Standard Excellon format, Centroid Standard
Gerber Plot Files	All Layers
Documentation	FAB Drawings, All Layers, All mask layers, Drill and Assembly drawings
RoHS	Fully RoHS compliant capabilities or Mil-Spec. tin-lead, gold

SOFTWARE, FIRMWARE and DOCUMENTATION DESIGN

BASIL Networks firmware and software application capabilities include but are not limited to. Top

SOFTWARE DESIGN

Windows Device Application Software using Visual Studio Development, Win32/64 API - Example

Windows Client/Server Application Software using Visual Studio and Win32/64 API

Windows Device Drivers (NT, WDM) , Windows NT4, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, XP, Vista Optional

Embedded application development, Assembly language for several platforms.

Custom automated test system software applications, custom Interfacing, Analog/Digital including RF. Example

Custom C++ Application development using Visual Studio - Example

DOCUMENTATION DEVELOPMENT

Technical Manuals, Hardware, Software Reference and Users manual. On-line embedded and PDF - Example

Training Manuals both PDF and On-Line training website

Web Presentation and Podcast development

SOFTWARE APPLICATION PROGRAMS used for DEVELOPMENT
Act	Database of suppliers and distributors of components
Adobe Acrobat	Creation of PDF files
Adobe Page Maker	Develop manuals and training books in PDF format
Altera Quartus II	FPGA, CPLD and Nios Embedded development
Apache	Web server running under Red Hat Pro Linux
AutoCAD	Development of mechanical drawings for fab houses
Corel Draw Suite	Custom graphics design for labels and manuals
FireFox	Web browser from Mozilla.
Opera	Web browser from Opera Software.
Internet Explorer	Web browser from Microsoft.
Linux OS	Server systems and Linux desktop development
MathCAD	Modeling and analysis
MGI PhotoSuit Platinum	Graphic files touch-up
MS Xcel	Bill of materials with manufacturer, distributor, delivery and pricing information.
MS Project	Project planning and tracking
MS Word	General word processing
MS Visio Professional	Creations of the technical presentations and drawings
MS MASM	Assembly program development for x86 based stand alone embedded processors
MS Visual Studio	Program development and testing for x86 based systems & Math analysis C++/VB
Borland 32 bit C Compiler	Embedded Processor x86 stand alone development
Watcom Fortran/C++ IDE	Development running under Linux, Windows
MySQL, MS FoxPro	Relational database and web development running under Linux, Windows
PGP	Encryption software for business and contract communications
Namo Web Edit Suite	Web Development for manuals and this website
OrCAD	Schematic Capture and PCB Layout
PHP Interpreter	PHP Hypertext processor for web development
Ulead Cool 3D	3D graphics for web presentations
UltraEdit Studio	Main program editor - Win32, 64 and ASM etc.
Zip Magic	Archiving files
GEAR Pro Professional	CD and DVD burning
Auto Screen Recorder	Web video and audio podcasts development
Custom DAQ Test System	Used for signal analysis and general monitoring and testing

SERVER and ON-LINE COMMUNICATIONS

BASIL Networks owns and operates all its' servers on site. This allows us the opportunity to offer secure communications with out clients using VPN and other encryption capabilities for point to point security on separate servers. Currently we use PGP, RSA and working on other more secure point to point communication technologies that will be activated when they become available.

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