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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:

  • Five multi-standard modulators to broadcast local channels and conduct interference and sensitivity tests;
  • One laboratory modulator capable of multipath and fading simulation;
  • One satellite modulator and transmitter;
  • Terrestrial and satellite signal recorders, which allow reproducing faults in the field and detailed analysis of transmission problems.
  • This equipment is interlinked in an RF infrastructure and can be remotely controlled. The digital content (streams) containing audio, video and data is produced, edited and transmitted using its own software infrastructure, enabling extensive testing of the functionalities of digital receivers developed in the laboratory and by third parties.

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:

  • Experimentation room: for creating systems, more specifically, for inserting the product into scenarios associated with sensoring and monitoring methodologies, allowing user interaction and experience with the product in a controlled space.
  • Support room: integrated with the experimentation room, it has resources to record, interpret and measure user actions.
  • Creation room: an environment that can be setup and adapted for different functions. It can be turned into a room for meetings, training, workshops and other types of group work.
  • Software: Morae

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

  • Calibration of standards and instruments, performed in the laboratory or in the field
  • Machine tool inspection
  • Special calibrations and measurements
  • Geometric trials of machine tools
  • Calibration of measuring instruments, and materialized measurements and special control devices
  • Calibration of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs), hole and sphere plates, scaled standards and interferometric laser.
  • CMM inspection (calibration, verification)
  • Special CMM services
  • Measurements of complex parts (e.g. orthopedic implants)
  • Calibration of instruments and materialized measurements using CMMs
  • Determination of measurement uncertainty using VCMM (Virtual Coordinate Machine Measuring) technology
  • Freeform 3D surface digitilization

Resources and tools

  • Laboratory climate control system, with online monitoring of internally developed environments
  • Surface roughness tester/Profilometer - Taylor Hobson, Talysurf
  • 3000mm Longitudinal Measuring Machine - ZEISS
  • Two 150mm Longitudinal Measuring Machines - ZEISS
  • Roundness, Cylindricity and Straightness measuring machine - Taylor Hobson, model 585
  • Autocollimator - ELCOMET
  • Two complete Renishaw lasers
  • Etalon Automatic LASERTRACER
  • Six 112-piece sets of gauge blocks
  • Mitutoyo Three-dimensional Optical Measuring Machine - Quick Vision model
  • Gauge Block Comparator, TESA UPC, with software developed by CERTI
  • Laboratory climate control system, with online monitoring of internally developed environments
  • Coordinate Tridimensional Measuring Machine - Zeiss model ZMC550


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:


  • Volumetric analysis of flaws such as bubbles, cracks and porosities in injected and cast components
  • Geometric comparison and analysis of deviations of the physical sample from its mathematical model (CAD)
  • 3D analysis of the physical macrostructure of composite materials
  • Complex part measurements such as injected plastics for the automotive industry
  • Analysis of electronic and mechanical part assemblages
  • X-ray and tomography of circuit boards

Tools and resources

  • Zeiss Coordinate Tridimensional Measuring Machine - model PRISMO Ultra, super accurate
  • Zeiss Industrial Application Tomography - model METROTOM 1500
  • GOM Optical Digitizer - Smart Scan model

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:

  • Análise volumétrica de falhas do tipo bolhas, trincas e porosidades em componentes injetados e fundidos
  • Comparação geométrica e análise de desvios da amostra física com seu modelo matemático (CAD)
  • Análise da macroestrutura física de materiais compósitos em 3D
  • Medições de peças complexas, como, por exemplo, injetados plásticos da indústria automotiva
  • Análise de montagens em componentes eletrônicos e mecânicos
  • Raios X e tomografias de placas eletrônicas

Recursos e ferramentas

  • Máquina de Medição Tridimensional por Coordenadas Zeiss, modelo Prismo Ultra Super Accuracy
  • Tomógrafo de aplicação industrial Zeiss, modelo METROTOM 1500
  • Digitalizador Óptico GOM, modelo Smart Scan
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