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ZX Technologies, Inc.

The Company

ZX Technologies, Inc. (ZXTECH) provides products and services that enable companies to rapidly implement world class embedded product designs. 

In recent years, the level of effort required to implement embedded designs has dramatically increased. Customers and competitive pressures have generated an ever increasing demand for new features and functionality, dramatically increasing design complexity. At the same time, business considerations have been applying relentless pressure to reduce time-to-market and development costs. 

ZXTECH addresses these challenges with an array of integrated products to facilitate the embedded development process. The company founder, having developed more than 120 embedded products over the past 30 years, has found that a very large percentage of most embedded designs can be comprised of a common intelligent framework and can use a common set of development tools. When this is done, the development effort is reduced to the limited aspects of the design that make the product unique, which at the end of the day is the real value that the developer is trying to deliver to the marketplace. Using this approach reduces the design, code, test and debug efforts, reducing the time-to-market and development costs while increasing product reliability.  

For embedded developers, ZXTECH offers products that put embedded developments on the fast track for successful implementation. The products provide a common framework for designing, implementing, testing and debugging embedded designs. The products, which are designed by engineers for engineers, are the same ones that ZXTECH uses internally for its own embedded development work. ZXTECH offers development platforms, development tools, chip support packages (software framework,  RTOS, peripheral drivers, debugger), software packages (file system, protocol stacks, encryption, etc.) and complete chip solutions.

For companies requiring assistance with their embedded developments, ZXTECH offers a range of services. For companies that can benefit from embedded designs but have no embedded design expertise, ZXTECH offers complete turnkey solutions. For companies that only need to augment their development capabilities, ZXTECH can provide any one or more of the following services: 

bulletDefining Requirements
bulletDeveloping Specifications
bulletDeveloping Technology
bulletArchitectural Design
bulletMechanical Design
bulletHardware Design
bulletSoftware Design
bulletPCB Layout
bulletPrototype Units
bulletTechnical Training
bulletTest Fixture Design

ZXTECH, working through its partners, can also provide pre-production and ongoing production units in any quantity that you may require. 

The ZXTECH staff has considerable experience in a wide range of embedded applications, including but not limited to: 

bulletNetwork Communications (interfaces, protocol converters, voice-over-IP)
bulletNetwork Bridge-Routers
bulletWireless Access Points (various technologies)
bulletError Detection & Correction
bulletSecure Encrypted Communications (voice & data)
bulletDigital Signal Processing
bulletMobile Communications (cellular phones, land mobile radios, radio pagers)
bulletDigital Telecommunications Switching Systems
bulletSatellite Downlink Receivers
bulletSteerable Satellite Antenna Systems
bulletPrecise Time & Frequency Standards (disciplined oscillators, Stratum clocks)
bulletGPS Applications (time, frequency, location tracking)
bulletSub-Micron Micro-Positioning
bulletLaser Interferometers & Spectroscopy

World class designs do not just happen. They are created by teams of engineers who possess the requisite expertise and experience (through many cycles of learning) to yield world class results. ZXTECH is unmatched in its ability to serve as a silent partner in helping you achieve success with your world class embedded designs. ZXTECH team members are committed to excellence through constant improvement in all that they do. 

Check out the ZXTECH products and services on our web site. Contact us so that we can help you with your embedded design needs. 

 

The Founder

Joel E. Sandahl
President & CEO

Mr. Sandahl began developing embedded products with an Intel 4004 4-bit microprocessor in 1973. Since then, he has been a prolific embedded developer, successfully developing more than 120 embedded designs, including the world's first microprocessor-based mobile telephone. Mr. Sandahl has a long and distinguished career of technical leadership including: 
 
bulletMotorola, Inc., Director of Advanced System & Technology
bulletComplex Systems, Inc., President & CEO (acquired by Motorola)
bulletSimulComm, Managing Director (acquired by Motorola)
bulletQuintron Corporation, Chief Scientist & Director of Advanced Development (acquired by Glenayre Technologies, Inc.)
bulletCellular Technology, Inc., President & CEO
bulletHarris Corporation, Director of Cellular Engineering

As a consultant, he has assisted many Fortune 500 companies with their technological needs, including Eastman Kodak Company, Xerox Corporation and Rockwell International. He has also assisted many small high technology companies, such as the E. F. Johnson Company where he served as their Chief System Architect. 

His innovative product development work has resulted in  numerous patents on behalf of his employers and client companies. 

 

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Last modified: November 09, 2005