Endorsed Practices
Most embedded products fail at the seams — where firmware meets silicon, where a board meets its enclosure, where a working prototype meets the evidence it needs to ship. BroadForge divides its work into four practices so each domain gets real depth, and keeps them under one contract so the seams stay somebody's responsibility. SignalForge builds the firmware. CircuitForge designs and debugs the electronics it runs on. FormForge makes it fit, mount, and survive its environment. QualForge proves it does what it is supposed to. Engage one practice or all four — the technical ownership does not change hands either way.
Firmware is where a product's behavior actually lives, and where a schedule usually goes wrong. SignalForge covers embedded C and C++ from the bootloader up — BSPs and drivers across bare metal, RTOS, and embedded Linux; board and SoC bring-up from first power-on; communications and control; and the modernization of firmware that has outlived whoever wrote it.
The hardware a product is built on determines what its firmware can ever do. CircuitForge covers electronic architecture, schematic and PCB design and review, FPGA and CPLD development, power, sensors, and analog and digital I/O — and the bench work of finding out why a board does not behave the way its schematic says it should.
A board that works on the bench still has to fit, mount, stay cool, and survive being handled. FormForge covers mechanical CAD, enclosures and packaging, mechanisms and assemblies, thermal management, and the design-for-manufacture work that turns a prototype into something a shop can actually build — including ruggedization and SWaP-constrained packaging.
A product that hasn't been proven under test is still a prototype, no matter how far along it looks. QualForge closes that gap — Built-In Test at startup, in the background, and continuously; ATP and DVT tooling; design for test and manufacturing test development; and the coding-standard, verification, and certification support that regulated programs require.