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Corporate Information

Noetic Design, Inc., incorporated in 1993, provides contract engineering and financial analysis services. We are also currently developing our own products for sale on the open market.  

Product Development

We recently started shipping our first new product for the education, research, and hobbyist robotics industries, the WW-01 and WW-02 WheelWatcher encoders, as well as the new WC-132 WheelCommander motion controller, under the Nubotics brand name; see www.nubotics.com for details. Also, look here for information about some of our robot related projects.

Business Services

We provide world-class financial analysis and business analysis services, including complete end-to-end financial modeling and forecasting, business plan development, and database design. Our clients in the past include Qualcomm, MDSI, and various schools and nonprofits in the Portland Metro area.

Contract Engineering

We specialize in developing software and firmware solutions for the consumer and hobby robotics, data storage, and EDA industries. 

We have programming and systems design expertise in: 

  • Hardware Interfaces
    • SCSI, ATAPI, I2C, SPI, JTAG, PCI, RS-232
    • device firmware
    • test software
    • applications programming
  • Tape Drive Interfaces
    • QIC-117 (floppy interface)
    • QIC-157 (ATAPI)
    • SCSI (DDS, DLT, OnStream, MountainGate)
  • Tape Storage Format Decoding and Recovery
    • Stac Data Compression
    • Reed Solomon ECC
    • Microsoft, Novastor, TapeWare, OnStream, and QIC Tape Formats
    • Undocumented data format reverse engineering
  • Hardware/Systems Design
    • motor controllers
    • wheel encoders
    • embedded systems
    • sensors (IR, sound, light, tilt, etc.)
    • battery monitoring
    • high tech robotic toys

A sample of our programming capabilities include: 

  • C / C++, Java, Python, Pawn, PHP, Assembly, Visual Basic
  • Microsoft Foundation Classes
  • Realtime kernels / multitasking / interprocess communications / threading
  • HTML, Javascript,Java Applets, Java JMF, Java JNI
  • JSPs, Apache Tomcat, Apache Torque, Apache Struts, JDBC, JNDI
  • Web Services, Apache Axis, Apple WebObjects, XML
  • Microsoft Access, MySQL, PostgreSQL
  • Windows NT/2000 and MSDOS device drivers and services
  • DOS, Windows, Windows 95, and Windows NT/2000/XP systems programming
  • Multimedia programming; MIDI
  • Wireless networking (Bluetooth serial port profile, some Zigbee)
  • Embedded systems (Dallas TINI, Palm OS, Microchip PIC, 68HC11, 8051, Atmel AVR, Atmel and NXP ARM, RoboJDE, GCC for AVR, SiliconLabs, etc.)
  • QNX (Real Time Unix-like OS)
  • Linux system administration
  • Mailman email lists, QMail
No*et"ic a. [Gr. , fr. to perceive, mind, intellect.]  
Of or pertaining to the intellect; intellectual.
"I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself."
- Sir W. Hamilton. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(G & C. Merriam Co., 1913)  

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Last updated 15 Nov 2007.