Who We Are
CoAutomation develops microcontroller-based electronics from customer specification
for research, medical, commercial and consumer products.
The customer supplies the idea and application expertise; we provide the technology.
In recent years, CoAutomation has focussed on creating battery-powered systems
for acquiring data from sensors, recording the data or transmitting the data to a host.
In some cases, the electronics processes the data and uses the resulting information
to control motors, heaters or other devices.
Examples include: water meters, medical monitoring, home thermostats,
industrial temperature control, and small motor control.
The company has extensive experience in designing systems that operate under strict power specifications.
These situations require careful attention to hardware organization and firmware functionality.
CoAutomation has work with customers to successfully create electronics
that will periodically gather data and transmit the results for over 15 years
using an "AA"-size lithium battery.
CoAutomation products are "well-behaved".
We work with the client to define product behavior early in the design process and
then create detailed specifications of product functionality.
Microcontroller code is developed using proprietary programming techniques
to create virtually bug-free firmware.
The result is a full-function product with no unexpected glitches or hiccups.
CoAutomation was founded in 1999 by Craig Goldman,
a graduate of MIT's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
Craig Goldman is a recognized innovator and inventor who holds
ten U.S. patents
and has made essential contributions to scores of commercially successful products.
A few of Craig's noteworthy engineering achievements are:
- In 1984 Craig Goldman created the graphics controller for a 17 1/4-inch
by 11-inch CRT display. Showing 1728 by 1100 8-bit pixels, it was at
the time of its introduction the highest resolution commercially available
grey-scale display.
- In 1986, Craig Goldman was a key member of the team that revolutionized
the electronics for printing pictures on laser printers; the technology
was sold to Canon Inc. and it is still used today in laster printers and copiers.
- Craig Goldman was one of the first designers to use Ethernet to communicate
between industrial controllers (1992).
- Craig Goldman was a member of the first team to demonstrate using the internet for
factory data acquisition (1993) and the world-wide web for communications
with industrial controllers (1996)
After consulting for two years as "Microcontroller Magic",
Craig Goldman formed CoAutomation Incorporated in April 1999 to provide a better
structure for customers of his expanding consulting business. The new structure allows
the company to assemble a team of experienced designers with multiple specialties to provide
more comprehensive solutions to complex engineering problems.
Craig Goldman / CoAutomation is proud to be a Senior Member of the IEEE and
an active member of the
Boston Section of the IEEE Consultants' Network.
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