CDC Partner Profile: Plexus Technology Group
Contact Information
55 Jewelers Park Drive
P.O. Box 677
Neenah, WI 54957-6707
Tel: 920-722-3451
Fax: 920-751-5395
Request information/contact from partner
Email: Chris.Rozewski@plexus.com
URL: http://www.plexus.com
Plexus is "The Product Realization Company." With over 20 years experience in turning product concepts into world-class products, Plexus offers customers a comprehensive set of value-added product realization services.
Services include:
- Mechanical, electronic, and software design
- PCB development
- Prototyping services
- New product introduction
- Material procurement and management
- PCB and higher level assembly
- Test development
- In-circuit and functional testing
- Final system box build
- Fulfillment and sustaining services
Plexus' range of capability provides for the seamless transition of products from one service offering to another, reducing time-to-market and total cost.
Plexus supports a variety of industries including:
- Wireline/networking
- Wireless infrastructure
- Medical
- Industrial/commercial
- Defense/security/aerospace
Plexus has no proprietary products, but its product realization services have created complex, high-tech products for major OEMs and high-tech start-ups. Plexus is where ideas become reality.
Locations and Expertise
| Table 1. Locations and Expertise |
| Locations |
Description |
Neenah, WI (USA)
Raleigh, NC (USA)
Boulder, CO (USA)
Penang, Malaysia |
Design |
Neenah, WI (USA)
Raleigh, NC (USA)
Boulder, CO (USA)
Penang, Malaysia
Livingston, Scotland |
Sales |
| Technology Expertise |
Description |
| Processors and Peripherals |
Custom, high-reliability motherboards |
| High-Speed Interfaces |
Optical telecom, super computer I/O |
| Buses and Interfaces |
All computing and telecom industry standards |
| Other Technology Experience |
Digital signal processing (DSP), video and imaging processing, Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, SONET/SDH |
| Services |
Description |
| Hardware Design |
- High-speed digital: networking, computer, and medical imaging products
- Fiber optics (fiber channel), gigabit Ethernet, OC-3 through OC-192
embedded systems
- PC and industry-standard buses
- Full board-level simulation
- Use of advanced development and simulation tools: Cadence, Mentor Graphics®, and Synopsys
- Power supplies and power plane designs (AC/DC, DC/DC, inverters, high-speed digital), DSP controls, sensor interface, motor drive, amplifiers, and filters
- RF systems including VHF, UHF, microwave, and spread-spectrum
- Optical design
- Strong EMC expertise and training
- Use of Mentor Graphics (RF Architect), HP ADS, and Cadence
- Simulation through PSPICE, Analog Workbench, MATLAB, and MININEC
|
| Mechanical Design |
Sheet metal, injection mold, custom enclosures |
| PCB Layout |
High-density/complexity DFM focus |
| Signal Integrity |
- Time domain simulation
- Clock skew/distribution, reflections, and crosstalk analysis
- IBIS model creation
- HSPICE to IBIS model development and verification
- Multi-board and system analysis
- EMI/EMC screening simulation
- BLAST (static timing analysis)
- Interconnect delay measurement
- TDR measurement
- Ground bounce/SSN studies
|
| Manufacturing |
Low-medium volume; high complexity; medical, defense, telecom, industrial |
| Other Services |
Software design, industrial design, prototyping |
| Market Expertise |
Description |
| Aerospace |
Munitions guidance and control, weather radar, black box applications, collision avoidance, rugged computing module |
| Wireless Communications |
- 2.4-GHz 802.11b systems
- Avionics radar/TCAS (12 GHz)
- Cellular basestation power amplifiers
- FLEX pager (929-931 MHz)
- Forward looking radar (5 GHz)
- High-speed cable modem (broadband)
- PCMCIA wireless LAN (900 MHz)
- RFID security products (130 KHz)
- Side detection system (24 GHz)
- Sky pager (930 MHz)
- U-NII band video transceiver (5 GHz)
- Wireless medical telemetry systems (614 MHz)
|
| Wireline Communications |
Routers, switches, edge connection devices, Quality of Service (QoS) devices, I/O card design (OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192), DS-3 and T1 phone switching cards, satellite network cards, high-speed wireless, fiber optic networks |
| Medical |
Defibrillation, vital signs monitoring, cell growth/processing systems, pacing systems, ultrasound diagnostic and surgical instruments, optical biomedical systems, diagnostic imaging, life support implantable devices, therapeutic radiation systems, angioplasty systems, blood perfusion systems, hemodialysis, RF ablation, telemetry, microwave systems, clinical laboratory, infusion drug delivery systems, transurethral thermal therapy, enteral infusion pumps, pulse oximetry, vascular therapy systems, glucose monitoring, and laser-based therapy systems |
| Military |
Military radar, thermal imaging/infrared, bomb guidance, RF jamming |
| Other Market Experience |
Computing, industrial, storage, test, and measurement |
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