About iF design

Philosophy

At iF design, we take a requirements driven approach to engineering. We want to understand our customers' needs and wants for any design, so we can meet or exceed all expectations. We want to ensure successful and timely delivery of all customer designs.

Management

Francisco Prado has over 15 years of experience as a design engineer and in leadership roles on multidisciplinary engineering teams. He has designed data storage systems that are in orbit around Earth and Mars, and has been responsible for the technological development and system design for a commercial wireless seismic acquisition system. He has generated next generation architectures for both seismic acquisition and aerospace mass memory storage systems from customer requirements. He is an experienced digital designer, having completed multiple ASIC, FPGA and PLD designs. He has had in-depth exposure to many engineering disciplines including analog design, mechanical design, software development, firmware development, various test types and manufacturing. He has a fundamental understanding of the design and manufacturing processes and the communication skills necessary to understand a customer's needs.

Process

• Specification definition
Understand customer needs and wants. Define clearly.
• Test definition
Define tests to guarantee successful implementation of customer specification.
• Conceptual design
Conceptual design completed and presented to customer. Validate against customer specification.
• Detailed design
Engineering design. Validate against customer specification.
• Prototype
Manufacture prototypes.
• Prototype test
Test prototype. Validate against customer specification.
• Production
Streamline manufacturing and reduce costs. Validate product against customer specification.