CAPABILITIES  

We are focused on embedded and realtime solutions and services. This focus is broken down into four group businesses.

  • Security and Intelligence Systems - Reverse Engineering, Software/Firmware Development, Complex Distributed Systems
  • Aerospace Systems - Flight Software, Spacecraft Systems and Mission Operations
  • Defense Systems - Systems Engineering, Software/Firmware and Components Development
  • Professional Services - Software, Firmware, Hardware, Prototypes, BSPs and Drivers
  • Training - Embedded Linux, RTOS, RTOS to Linux Migration

 
Experience Counts
Our engineers average over 16 years experience in embedded and realtime systems

The PTR Group provides a team of highly qualified engineers, with experience encompassing a wide variety of development environments, platforms, and applications. Our experience comes from building systems and developing solutions at organizations such as Wind River, ISI, Enea OSE, SPARTA, Texas Instruments, Ericsson, NASA, Orbital Sciences, Red Hat, and E-Systems. We leverage this experience to offer solutions ranging from specialized consulting services to complete project outsourcing.

Our Expertise

  Systems

  • Top-level hardware/software architecture design for systems ranging from single board COTS to custom multiprocessor systems
  • Product prototyping and turnkey product development
  • Rapid technical assessments, studies and recommendations

 Software

  • Real-time and embedded design, coding, test and integration.
  • Development using Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) including VxWorks™ , pSOS™ , Enea OSE™ and Embedded Linux™
  • Low-level software development and customization including device drivers, interrupt service routines (ISRs), and Board Support Packages (BSPs)
  • Networking in the real-time environment
  • Distributed processing environments
  • Windows/DOS and UNIX application, driver, and GUI development

Hardware

  • Microprocessor/microcontroller-based design
  • Design and integration with various bus and communications interfaces
  • Integration with OEM and custom hardware
  • VMEbus, PCI, cPCI, PCMCIA, CardBUS and other form-factor custom designs
  • PCB Layout and Fabrication
  • High-speed digital logic design
  • FPGA and PLD design

 
Facilities

 

Herndon, Virginia
Our Herndon, Virginia office acts as company headquarters. This office provides support for our training, services and aerospace business areas. The facility contains meeting facilities and our training business area logistics depot, complete with a service lab for our training equipment. The office is convieniently located minutes from Dulles Washingoton Airport (IAD) just off the Dulles Toll Road.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Savage, Maryland
PTR maintains a 3200 square foot engineering support center located minutes from the Baltimore Washington Airport (BWI), in Savage, MD. This site provides support to engineering teams working for our local Maryland commercial and defense customers. The Savage offices are configured to support design and testing of network-based applications and include multiple lab spaces (electronic and network), offices and a conference room.
 
 
 

 

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