WTSi has provided product development and engineering services on many government and commercial endeavors over our over twenty five years of being in business; below is a list of a few of these older projects.
CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER PROJECT
Motion control. Solar tracking algorithm implementation. Microsoft Visual.NET front-end GUI, Parker ACS motion controller, calibration routines for AZ and EL at POR, tracks sunrise to sunset then resets for next sunrise, soft/hard limiting.
WIRELESS DETONATION SEQUENCER FOR MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY SPECIAL-EFFECTS
Microchip-based embedded hardware/software. MPLAB development environment. 433Mhz ISM band RF solution with software-based encoder/decoder.
RADIATION TESTING ON FOREIGN SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS
Characterization of Eastern Bloc chips in an underground concrete maze at the Naval Surface Warfare Center near Indianapolis Indiana.
SATELLITE-BASED EXPERIMENT BOARDS
Microchip PIC micro-controller-based circuit cards and firmware for testing radiation-hardened semiconductor devices as they 'fly' through the ion belt on MAPLE and STRV satellites launched from the space shuttle(s).
PORTABLE SPORTS (SQUASH) TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE TRACKING DEVICE
Microchip-based embedded hardware/software device and Windows application built with Borland C++ Builder IDE.
ADVANCED INSTRUMENT CONTROLLER
8051-based multi-chip module prototype for multiple military applications.
"SILICON EYE" PROJECT
Analog front-end (AFE) and digital processing with wavefront sensors interface for satellite positioning system. Altera FPGAs, Intel i960 processor, NTSC/PAL video output.
MICROELECTRONICS OPTIMIZED FOR SPACE
R&D/system-integration effort. Infrared camera system with radiation-hardened mercury-cadmium-telluride focal-plane-array (FPA) technology. COTS Quad-C40 DSP processor board. Custom Altera FPGAs board. VME backplanes.
