The Leading Edge of Electronics Design

Plextek is one of the largest independent electronics design consultancies in Europe. We are situated 10 miles south of Cambridge, UK. Established in 1989 and now with one hundred staff we are one of the leading consultancies in our field. Since our foundation we have been selected by clients with a requirement for high quality custom electronic product and system design. We provide design services to the communications, defence, automotive, industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) markets and can also provide a design and supply service for customer specified electronic products.

Plextek undertakes a wide variety of programmes from small design support or feasibility study contracts to complete product design, through to the development of full custom systems and system integration. Examples of product designs we have successfully undertaken include:

Multi-media GSM/GPRS handset Flight qualified synthesiser subsystems for avionics Radar Bluetooth based hands-free car kits FPGA based radar signal processing board RF power amplifier modules Tunable laser controller Various full custom GaAs MMICs Custom receiver designs for defence and communications applications

Plextek has developed a number of full custom systems as a means of providing solutions to a client's problem. Examples include:

A broadband wireless access system Product and system design for stolen vehicle recovery Utilities telemetry (radio remote meter reading for utilities) Formula One motor racing telemetry Sonobuoy tranceivers A medical telemetry system

Our clients range in size from small companies seeking specialist advice through to large companies such as Sony, Smiths Industries and QinetiQ, seeking to expand their resources in a particular area or to outsource a specific project.

One aspect that sets Plextek apart from many traditional 'Research & Development' establishments is its keen commercial awareness and the ability to design for manufacture or to provide a one-stop design and supply service. This extends to designing for the particular manufacturing environment and to the design and development of production functional test equipment.

Plextek has earned an international reputation for quality, innovation and service, based on the calibre of its personnel and a series of highly successful projects. Plextek holds BS EN ISO9001:2000 certification and is an approved supplier to a range of government departments and utilities including the DTI, MOD and the Home Office. We are full members of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), participating in the development and generation of standards.

If you would like to discuss how you could make use of Plextek’s design services please contact us.