Wearable Navigation Assistant

- FOUP Conveyance Control System
- Laser-Guided Precision Stopping
- DSP & FPGA Custom Algorithms
- High-Speed EtherCAT Networking
Overview
Nuvation Engineering worked with Toyota on Project BLAID to design a wearable electronic device that would assist the visually impaired with navigation.
Project Details
Design features
- Innovative wearable technology based on the 8-core Samsung Exynos 5422 Application Processor
- High density power supply design for 8-core application processor
- 10 buck converters & 30 LDO’s in less than 3cm² PCB real estate
- Met strict PDN DC / AC impedance requirements
- Design of custom flex PCB carrying 2 impedance controlled CSI links over 25cm
- MCNEX MC6B2 2 Megapixel camera modules
- Texas Instruments’ DRV2604 haptic driver
- Texas Instruments WiLink 8 (Wi-Fi/Bluetooth) module
- KitKat 4.4.2 Android platform
Our Process
How we work
From conceptualization to execution, Nuvation Engineering has decades of experience supporting product development through every stage.