After incorporating the business in 1991, WTSi began providing product development and engineering services for many government and commercial endeavors. Below is a list highlighting some of our favorite projects from that time period.
CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER (CSP) PROJECT
Industrial motion controller. Solar tracking algorithm implementation for a 15-meter solar concentrator dish. 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 (Czech, Russian, etc) semiconductor chips culminating in radiation testing performed in an underground concrete maze at the Naval Surface Warfare Center near Indianapolis Indiana.
SATELLITE-BASED EXPERIMENT BOARDS
Circuit cards and firmware for testing radiation-hardened semiconductor devices as they 'fly' through the ion belt on MAPLE and STRV satellites launched from a Space Shuttle.
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.
