Steffen Lohse-Koch Ingenieurbüro für Messtechnik

Instrumentation

  • developing concepts and realisation of custom tailored instrumentation systems, starting from the sensor and ending with the documentation of measured results based on: Industrial-PCs, CompactPCI-systems, portable PCs and embedded systems
  • development of networking components for data acquisition and process monitoring
  • internet/intranet-based measurement and remote control systems

Electronic Design

  • design of electronic components and devices according to customer needs analyzing the problem, specification of the task to be solved, circuit and device design, prototyping, delivery of small series or transfer to mass production.

Special competences:

  • design of precision electronics for measurement applications,
    • + signal conditioning circuits for sensors
    • + measurement & signal amplifiers
    • + filter design
  • power and high voltage amplifiers for driving capacitive loads (piezo transducers, piezo actuators
    • + sensor applications, especially piezo sensors and transducers, magnetic sensors
    • + data acquisition systems: fast and high resolution AD-converters

Software Development

  • development of complex test- and measurement applications with LabVIEWTM:
    • + data acquisition und visualization
    • + signal processing
    • + evaluation algorithms
    • + documentation
  • device and system remote controlling via GPIB, USB, RS232, CAN, TCP/IP
  • development of drivers and libraries to integrate customer's specific hardware in LabVIEWTM
  • development of real-time applications and FPGA design

Consulting

  • analysis of problems and proposing solutions in the fields of instrumentation, measurement and data acquisition
  • consultation to questions concerning the use of the graphical programming software LabVIEWTM
  • electronic design: development of concepts and case studies
  • electromagnetic compatibility: EMC-compliant layout and device design