Tobias Baumgartner, Pepperl+Fuchs

„As specialists in electrical explosion protection and sensors for the automation of industrial buildings and processes, we supply customised systems that are used across the board from automotive factories to water processing plant. IMMS has developed a chip for us that we can install into our remote I/O systems. These are systems that transmit processed data from the safe or explosion hazardous areas by connecting binary and analog sensors and to a control system via a bus interface. The most frequent use of our products is in zones with explosion hazard in the petrochemical, gas, chemical and pharmaceutical industries but also in other harsh industrial environments.

We prepared the internal programming code for a previous circuit and passed it to IMMS. IMMS then checked the code, found an FPGA solution to provide verification, and worked from that to specify the additional requirements for the new communication control, following up with the design and supporting us during manufacture. They characterised and tested the chip, then coordinated the construction of and bonding technology for the housing.

The systematic methods of IMMS in simulating the logic and steadily verifying all functions greatly contributed to the fact that we had an error-free chip in the very first iteration. It has been integrated into our mass-produced products since late 2016 and we are more than satisfied. We extend grateful thanks for the excellent cooperation and ready communication. It will be a pleasure for us if there is a future opportunity of joining forces again with IMMS in successful development.“