A custom design merges technologies to create a new product, and it lends itself to qualifying the new product as an invention1. Commercially available and off-the-shelf components are used wherever possible to reduce risk and cost and improve producibility. Programmable chips, microcontrollers and other hardware architectures reduce design time. Custom circuitry fills in the gap, but an important one that brings to light the product's new functionality.
DataPlex's custom designs often optimize hardware and software, and within the hardware, combine appropriately digital and analog circuitry. DataPlex engineers always look towards production quality and future expandability. Also, DataPlex engineers like to be
as fast as possible to market, matching or bettering a client's competition. An, in an effort to thwart the competition, DataPlex engineers like to work on the associated intellectual property concurrently. Tell me more...
1A requirement for a patentable invention is that it must be novel, or new.