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The Digital Convergence Laboratory works on the development of embedded software for Digital TV, Telecommunications, Energy, Education and for research and development projects involving products dedicated to innovation. The activities performed cover several lines of research: handling of analog and digital signals; electronic circuits; hardware design; prototyping; instructions for product testing and validation; web software using technologies appropriate for each kind of product; and mobile applications.
The laboratory has several tools, such as continuous integration servers, compilation servers, and paid tools for static code analysis (e.g. Coverity), and others. These aid in the development of robust systems with high-performance and reliability.
More specifically in relation to digital TV, the laboratory is skilled in and highly specialized in editing, manipulating, operating and transmitting digital content and signals using any standard for digital TV, either terrestrial (ISDB-T, DVB-T, ATSC, DTMB) or satellite (DVB-S, DVB-S2). It can also produce interactive content and corresponding infrastructure for the Brazilian standard, as well as a complete system of automated tests (ATE) that were internally developed.
The laboratory has the following Digital TV equipment:
Using this laboratory infrastructure, the CERTI Foundation is able to develop hardware, a base operating system, extensive libraries of processing content, graphic interfaces and multimedia. All of these are integrated in reference platforms created by the laboratory using the leading chipset and processor providers. These platforms are, in turn, customized and integrated with market products from Brazilian and multinational companies.
CERTI creates and maintains production servers able to host software for testing pilot-projects in a real-world environment. The software development is carried out by usability specialists, placed in a highly creative environment, for the creation and experimentation of new products focused on the user.
The portfolio of the Digital Convergence Laboratory includes the development of projects with a national and international scope. Examples include: the first digital TV set-top box on the Brazilian market (developed for the Philips company); software development for SmartTV; conceptualization, technical specifications, development and production of four hundred functional prototypes of the Proinfo Integrated Projector (for the Ministry of Education); development and prototyping of the Braille Reader (for the Ministry of Education); creation of the first Venezuelan digital TV receiver (including technology sharing and partner training for mass production); as well as various other innovative products and solutions to meet the needs of its clients.
In addition to the focus on products and technologies for the market, the ability to work with high-density circuits, multilayered circuit boards, high frequency signals and controlled impedance tracks, provides product development stability and reliability to its clients. Monitoring the integration of production stages, electromagnetic compatibility tests and software integration has led to a track record of high quality and excellence in project design.
The Electronics Laboratory is skilled in: the development of highly complex embedded systems (HW, SW and FW), analog and microprocessed electronic equipment to automate and control machines and processes, as well as products for data collection and telemetry; the development of embedded software and firmware for microprocessing solutions and technological updating of existing products; integration of systems that contain digital signal processing, interactive optics and surfaces, acoustics and instrumentation, and other branches of science.
The laboratory infrastructure is equipped with microcomputers with software for projects involving highly complex printed circuit boards, in addition to work benches with high frequency oscilloscopes and instruments to measure electromagnetic radiation, regulated power supplies, portable multimeters and soldering benches and stations.
Electronics Software: Altium Designer, MP Lab IDE
The UP laboratory is a creative environment dedicated to design and focused on human factors in the creation of and experimentation with new products. It seeks the best evidence-based market prospects. Its seventy-two-square-meter space is divided into three environments:
Labfaber is a leader in the field of development, command, practice and diffusion of digital technologies for the competitive manufacture of technologically advanced products; and in training and dissemination of solutions in Industry 4.0. It succeeds the successful LABelectron, expanding its scope from “Circuit Boards” to “Mechatronic Products” with high technical density, by means of a project mobilizer supported with resources from Brazil’s computer law in the context of the HardwareBR Priority Program. From 2019-2022, investments of R$56 million are expected to be raised under the Investment Partners Program (PPI) to consolidate LABfaber.
Dimensional metrology laboratory
The laboratory includes the fields of dimensional, form & roughness and macro geometry. LMD has an area of two hundred fifty square meters and is accredited by CGCRE/INMETRO and since 1993 is a member of the Brazilian Calibration Network (RBC). It also works with coordinate measurement – which comprises an additional area of eighty-seven square meters – with nationally renowned infrastructure and accreditation also dating to 1993.
Available services
Resources and tools
For more informations access:
www.LabFaber.org.br
The CT Laboratory has an area of 134 square meters and offers the CERTI Foundation’s clients some of the most modern analysis tools for new product development, including:
Tools and resources
O LTC ocupa área de 134m² e oferece aos clientes da Fundação CERTI uma das ferramentas mais modernas de análise, adequadas ao suporte ao desenvolvimento de novos produtos, incluindo:
Recursos e ferramentas
+ 55 (48) 3239-2000 
