In the current day scenario, where everything is going small and digital, popular brands are now producing more reliable small form factor design / light-weight and compact hardware design with an aim to make people’s lives easier. A Small Form factor Design or small footprint design refers to the overall design and functionality of a electronic hardware. Small form factor design or small footprint design can also serve as a standard or category that can be used to ensure that there is a level of hardware compatibility between devices of similar types, even though they may come from different manufacturers. With the ongoing trend towards  light-weight and compact hardware design, there is need for small footprint design or compact product design with densely pack electronics so that they occupy minimum real estate while providing maximum functionality. A Compact Product Design or small footprint design for any system or hardware predominantly depends on the size, application and footprint of the components that go into the hardware.

Small Form Factor Design and Compact Product Design

The increase in demand for industrial embedded systems and HMI panels continues to grow in key industry segments. This is driven by the advent of Industry 4.0/5.0 and Industrial IoT applications putting an emphasis on controllers, sensor intelligent and edge computing, in turn driving the demand for rugged, compact product design and small form factor design and system. Mistral’s embedded hardware design and development team offers custom electronic design services, Form factor Design and compact hardware design services for next-gen embedded electronics devices.

Mistral’s expert team of engineers look at building small yet powerful and feature rich systems overcoming significant challenges in small form factor design and compact product design like signal integrity, thermal integrity, power management, battery management and memory optimization. Our team has the expertise and experience in designing energy efficient, compact, small footprint design with a variety of I/Os, sensors, interfaces and wide operating temperature range to meet the needs of medical, consumer and industrial customers. Form factor design indicates the shape and size specifications of any hardware. Light-weight Hardware Design and compact form factor design also address other specification such as the mechanical casing, power supply, and overall physical layout. The size and shape of the components in these Small footprint Design or Light-weight Hardware Design are influenced by the connections and power specifications.

Small Footprint Design and Light-weight Hardware Design 

The advent of feature-rich, multi-core SoCs with PoP technology and graphic accelerators have furthered this cause making it feasible for product designers to build small form factor design, light-weight hardware design and compact product design for the next generation of portable and wearable applications. Leveraging on our years of extensive design and engineering expertise in the embedded domain, Mistral’s complex, light-weight hardware design and small form factor design services optimize space, weight and performance to achieve the perfect balance of ruggedness and technology by using PoP technology SoCs, miniaturized ICs and creating multiple HDI PCBs with miniature interconnects. We offer complete small footprint design and compact hardware design services for a wide variety of applications in health and wellness, biometrics, home automation and industrial automation which are connected to the Internet of Things.