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Software Development

Embedded, cloud and mobile software to ensure the smooth running of your smart products and connected devices  

High-performance, real-time systems for instrumentation and control. Secure, reliable data connectivity for cloud-enabled devices. Memory and power-efficient design for lightweight embedded systems. Whatever the nature of your product, software design is critical for its success.

Our team of software design consultants in Cambridge will steer you through the complete software lifecycle, from design to deployment. This means starting from initial requirements capture through to software architecture, interface definition, and detailed design.

Testing is critically important too; it’s one thing to write the code, another to be sure it works, and another to maintain in your product over time.

Our software engineering services include

  • Software design and implementation
  • Automated test flows and test-driven software development
  • Agile development methods
  • System architecture and specification
  • Database and mobile development
  • Real-time software development (bare metal and RTOS)
  • UI / UX design and development
  • Automated test setup and continuous integration (CI), continuous development (CD), either stand-alone or linked to revision control systems, such as GitHub
  • Design for test (DFT)
  • Embedded software development services
  • IoT software development services
  • Cloud software development

Our approach to software development

You could be a startup launching a new product – but with no team to build it. Or an established firm looking to outsource to software development specialists to add capacity or capability that you just don’t have in-house.

Our software design engineers are here to help, developing well-structured, high-quality, fully documented and tested code to support the smooth running of your product.

Collaboration is an essential part of our approach. Our software consultants work closely with our electronic engineering team, sitting alongside them in our Cambridge HQ, meeting regularly to address challenges and set priorities within the project as a whole.

We’ll prioritise interaction with your team, identifying and resolving issues quickly to ensure a smooth workflow and maintain momentum.

How can we help you?

Call us on +44 1223 236 262, or fill in the contact form.

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They proved a worthy partner in supporting Nujira at a critical stage in the development of our leading-edge power amplification technology for the cellular infrastructure market. Their experience and maturity of approach has given us the confidence to entrust them with a range of tasks that were integral to our early-stage development.

Tim Haynes
CEO, Nujira Ltd

They have been a valuable addition to the Xaar engineering team. They have allowed our engineers to remain focused on core developments and at the same time giving us the confidence that we can take on a greater developmental roadmap whilst retaining full intellectual ownership of all our product designs.

Keith Brookes
Senior Electronics and Software Engineer, Xaar plc

They were able to hit the ground running and, using their considerable skills and experience in Bluetooth product development, was able to quickly bring Securecom to a point where we were able to demonstrate a complete solution. As a result, we have asked Fen to continue to support Securecom towards Bluetooth Qualification and full production.

Dr Patrick Hartigan
CEO, Securecom Technologies Ltd.

They have impressed us with how they have created a solution that has met both EMT’s needs of integration with our existing infrastructure and way of working, and provided a high quality feature enhancement to our product range.

Colin Boughton-Smith
Managing Director, EMT

Their skills and experience were a key factor in selecting them as a development partner. Their ability to de-risk the design process was a significant benefit to us during the product development.

Graham Murphy
CEO, RDT Ltd

Their engineers have done an excellent job in creating a sophisticated, flagship product that outperforms the competition with respect to price/performance ratio. The development methodology is mature and leads to qualitatively solid software, while their approach has been always persistent and professional.

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CTO, DekTek Digital Video B.V