Promwad Innovation Company
Promwad is a leading provider of outsourcing services related to embedded system development and electronic product design with the offices in Eastern Europe and the UK. Combining creativity and technical expertise, Promwad offers state-of-the-art embedded solutions for various industries.
Promwad Innovation Company provides on-demand hardware development, on-demand software development, migration and integration services for embedded software, hardware and software selection consulting, testing and quality assurance services. Please find out more about our embedded system design services >>
Client and Partner Testimonials  The idea of cooperation between Promwad and MT-System was burning. Due to open-minded leaders, drive to innovation and flexible management of this company, we were able to develop our cooperation easily. Promwad is a reliable and competent partner able to assess the situation on the project quickly as well as respond to the customers’ inquiries providing them with detailed and well-reasoned proposals for the project implementations.
Sergey Shchedrin,
MT System (Russia)
Selected case studies
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Testing and localization of the ebook reading device that is intended for the Russian market. The project was implemented on the basis of an existing device of South Korean production (but with limited functionality and poor quality software). |
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The testing of the eBook reader with 3G support, including functional, automated and regression testing for the following parameters: product’s software usability and graphic interface, 3G module quality and the quality of electronic content delivery system. We also created design documents for the product and test it for conformity with the existing corporate style.
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Promwad specialists developed a hardware and software complex used to control a 5D movie theater and create 5D video clips.
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The main goal of the project was to develop an onboard data logger, a portable device for monitoring and diagnostics of the vehicle’s technical condition with such functions, as logging the route of the vehicle, recording conversations between passengers in the passenger compartment and transmitting all information over a wireless channel to the control and coordination center.
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Promwad specialsts developed an onboard computer for managing, controlling and diagnosing auxiliary equipment. The device is to be installed inside trucks or special-purpose vehicles.
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We developed a software/hardware platform for exploring the capabilities of a video compression algorithm developed by the customer. Engineering of two system environment options for hardware and software integration of a video compression algorithm supplied by the customer.
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Promwad specialists created the design and enclosure of a portable on-board vehicle recorder, a device for monitoring parameters of the vehicle as well as for recording car route and audio in the vehicle. All the information transfers all wirelessly to a dispatch and coordination center.
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The goal of the project was to show off Android operating system on demo board used for presentation purposes. Adapt Linux kernel to target hardware and run Android on it. Additionally, following a customer’s request, Linux kernel was configured to enable USB OTG Host mode for support of removable USB devices like mouse or USB stick. After all Linux porting efforts, the customer obtained Android demonstration embedded platform with required functionality and within strict project schedule. |
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We developed a user digital TV set-top box for IPTV content operators, which enables IPTV content reception and decoded stream playback on a TV set in the SD and HD formats (up to 1920x1080 60Hz). The hardware platform is based on the STi7105 processor by STMicroelectroniñs. This device decodes MPEG-2/4 video streams as well as connects and plays back data from an embedded HDD.
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An innovative platform Pegasus was developed for digital signage displays and information displays. Full Linux support was provided for the whole set of chips and interfaces installed on the Pegasus platform, as well as external modules and daughter-boards. Also, an embedded Linux distribution was developed, with a set of applications that demonstrate the hardware platform capabilities. |
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A digital set-top box receiver for DVB-Ñ SD signal was developed. The STB is based on the STMicroelectroniñs STi5197 processor. Set-top box enclosure is implemented in the minimal form factor. The finished device targets the low-end market.
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We have developed a hybrid IPTV set-top box based on the SMP8654 media processor by SigmaDesigns, which supports DVB-T (Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcast) and DVB-S/S2 (Satellite Digital Video Broadcast) standards.
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The project goal is to develop a reference design platform for a digital consumer set-top box solution. The reference design should support standard (SD) and high-definition (HD) DVB-T, DVB-C and IPTV video signals and play back the decoded stream on a television receiver. |
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We developed a digital set-top box for the receipt and decoding of terrestrial digital broadcasting signals in the DVB-T format and for the following reproduction of the decoded flow to the TV receiver. The digital set-top box is aimed at the lower price brackets and shall be performed at the minimal form factor. The software was implemented on the basis of Linux OS. |
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We developed an video registration device designed for digitizing, storing and retrieving on request audio and video signals received from 4 sources of analog audio/video signals. |
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A board support package (BSP) was designed for using in automotive electronics applications. The device performs monitoring of sensors and executes parameters check, control indication modes of car’s auxiliary equipment. |
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We developed a device capable of controlling home multimedia system (HDTV, home theatre, tuner, video recorder, etc) with HDMI-interface via Ethernet by using a PC and/or other devices connected to Ethernet. The device can be quickly and easily configured and integrated into the smart home control system. |
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We analyzed the possibilities of developing a game machine with the resolution of 1600õ1200 pixels and the vertical-repetition frequency of 60Hz. |
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We have created a device designed to bring the user back to the previously marked point in a coordinate system. It show the movement and indicate the distance to a specified point. The device is very silmle, user-friendly and do not require any additional settings before the start of operation. The product’s target audience includes both young and retired people, outdoor recreation enthusiasts — people who like travelling and hiking and need only a device that would bring them back to a starting point (for example, to their camp location). |
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Our specialists developed a multi-purpose navigation board, capable of organizing longitudinal motion, dynamic positioning and automatic mooring of vessels. Also we performed stand and field testing by using a complex of mathematical modeling and simulating automatic and semiautomatic vessel control systems. |
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Finished project of debugging and eliminating errors in an Internet radio software stack used in electronic devices developed by the customer. Promwad's specialists realized a task of adding new functional capabilities to the device and made re-design program modules and optimize interaction between them. |
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Promwad team has developed a device prototype for video recording in JPEG2000 format on the basis of ADV202 BF-Expander debugging kit for Russian company - developer and manufacturer of midget systems for digital recording of audio and video information. The prototype allows video recording in Motion JPEG2000 format to USB Flash drive. We developed a program module, which saves frames received from ADV202 to a video stream. To support hardware compression of JPEG2000 Promwad team developed ADV202 driver. |
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Events
7- 9 February 2012, Moscow, Russia CSTB 2012. CSTB exhibition and forum is the key media event of the year in the sphere of TV and telecommunication technologies: digital free-to-air TV, wireless technologies, satellite communications, cable and satellite TV, IPTV, OTT TV, HDTV and 3DTV; broadband, multi-service networks, etc.
News
20 January 2012
At the end of 2011 Moscow hosted the first IPC training in Russia. Promwad specialists took part in this event, passed the exam successfully and received IPC CID certificates. These documents warrant high-quality expert knowledge and experience of Promwad electronics design house specialists.
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17 January 2012
Promwad Innovation Company has become an official partner of Texas Instruments and joined the international network of design houses that develop electronics based on TI components and solutions. This partnership gives Promwad clients additional benefits as to reduced time and development costs, access to the latest TI technologies, etc.
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13 December 2011
December 10, 2011 – The official closing of 2011 Adventure Racing Season took place in Minsk surroundings (the railway station “Zelenoye”). The organizers were the community of travelers from www.poehali.net and the team of Promwad Tour. The event was sponsored by Promwad Innovation Company.
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13 December 2011
Orion Restaurant and Club hosted the final of Miss IT 2011, the 5th Annual Contest of Beauty and Intelligence among the workers of Belarusian IT companies. Pavlenko Maria, office-manager, Promwad, won the title of Miss Grace IT 2011.
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01 December 2011
On November 25—26, 2011, Minsk hosted the VIIth International Business Conference “TOP-management: Smart Money”. Roman Pakholkov, CEO of Promwad Innovation Company, and Juliya Vinogradova, CFO, took part as the guest experts in this event for business owners and TOP-managers from Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine, Baltic States and other countries.
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