Company Focus
Overview SWHARD stands for SoftWare, HArdware, R&D SWHARD mission mission is to grant research, innovation & development services SWHARD is an italian innovative startup. Founded in 2012 as an s.r.l. Early activities since Jul 2011 Fully operational in Jan 2014 10 people: 3 working partners 1 employees + 1-2 employees foreseen in 2015 consultants Self-financed
The SWHARD way SWHARD attends to innovative ideas and unfolds the R&D approach to achieve the realization of the final product. Prestudy Problem analysis Requirements definition Validation of solutions Case study Requirements definition Design System specifications Interface definition Test planning Strategy selection System design Development Hardware Software Integration & verification HW/SW development Prototyping Prototyping Hardware tests Maintenance Further developments Product Engineering Production support
Tech Areas / services SWHARD can provide the customer with services in different areas System design Engineering HW design FPGA programming SW/FW development Industrial Automotive TLC Biomedical Power Management
Company Competences System Design Embedded Realtime High Availability Distributed Low power Hardware Analog, Digital e Mixed-Signal MicroControllers MicroProcessors DSP FPGA Interfaces USB, Ethernet, WiFi, Bluetooth, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe Protocols TCP/IP, TIPC, IGMP, MPLS, STP etc Firmware and Software Windows Device Drivers Applications Linux Kernel Adaptation Device Drivers GCC cross-toolchains Applications VxWorks Applications Languages C/C++/C++11/C# Java Assembly x86, PowerPC, TI DSP, ARM, Microchip etc Verilog/VHDL Python WEB ASP.NET Framework HTML SQL Databases SQL Server MySql Oracle
Experience & Expertise TLC Optical Electrical Wireless Automotive Power Distribution Networking Traffic Management Automation Control Systems Power Systems Control Biomedical Data Acquisition Data Analysis Research Modelling Simulation Measure Green/Low Power
Examples ColdIron a multi purpose, low cost, low power industrial grade embedded SOM for use in control system applications connectivity and reliability centered Sensor management Development of HW, FW, SW (incl. GUI) for testing, commissioning and remote management of motion and flux sensors Power management Development of HW, FW, SW and UI of the control modules of a remotely managed power distribution unit Furbot, Zigbee Assistance (fast HW/SW development) for technology demonstrators
Founders SWHARD has been founded by: Alfonso Mantero: Physicist, worked for several research institutions such as ESA, IN2P3 (Bordeaux) and INFN. Expert in Monte Carlo simulations and modeling of physical/chemical phenomena continues to cultivate a passion for communication and teaching. Egon Carusi: Informaticist, worked for a long time on borderline projects between science and technology research with several companies (CAEL, Viglietti and more) where he dedicated himself to numerical modeling, simulation and human interface for machine remote control. In the last five years he worked as a senior embedded software engineer at Ericsson. Piergiorgio Beruto: Physicist, worked for seven years at Marconi/Ericsson, acting also as a consultant for a lot of small/medium companies in the automotive, biomedical and TLC market since 2004. Expert in both hardware and real-time embedded software he also developed a passion for technical coaching of the personnel.
Targets What System Design Engineering Development Where Detectors Measurement tools Automotive IoT / Low Power Domotics Power / Grid management Smart City Wearable TLC Industrial Research Case study Solution search How Physical Layer Networking Embedded Cooperative systems Neural Networks