As a specialized embedded development partner, SIGMA supports system integrators with challenging embedded tasks and during periods of high demand - from complete board support packages to targeted software customizations and long-term support for deployed platforms.
Many system integrators today have their own embedded developers and established platforms. Additional external support is therefore not needed for every task - but rather in cases where a project requires specialized expertise, additional capacity, or long-term technical support.
This is precisely where SIGMA complements your team. We work with hardware provided by you or your client and handle the agreed-upon hardware-related software scope within a clearly defined division of roles.
SIGMA has a history spanning more than 30 years. The company initially developed complete embedded products and later applied the experience gained from this work to BSPs, standard kits, and system integrator projects. The timeline shows the key milestones in the company’s development - from Swingline to today’s support for platform and solution partners.
This development explains why SIGMA is able to take on both comprehensive BSP projects and clearly defined specialized tasks. Today, the key factor is selecting the right project model for the system integrator, the client project, and the technical requirements.
Not every task requires the long-term development of additional specialized skills within our own team. However, situations regularly arise in client projects where targeted external support ensures the project’s progress, expands technical options, or creates additional development capacity.
Conversely, SIGMA can, if needed and with the consent of all parties involved, facilitate technical contact between product companies and suitable system integrators. Drawing on our experience with various platforms and project configurations, we help align hardware, software, and support requirements at an early stage.
Challenging hardware-related tasks
Committed Development Capacity
Follow-up Phases Requiring Intensive Care
Additional Customer RequirementsSIGMA provides support wherever your system integrator needs additional technical expertise or capacity. This enables you to offer your customers even complex embedded projects without having to maintain every specialized discipline in-house on a permanent basis.
At the same time, the collaboration remains flexible: Depending on the project, SIGMA takes on a clearly defined task, serves as technical reinforcement within your project team, or supports an expanded development and support environment.
SIGMA works both directly with end customers and on projects with system integrators. The technical quality remains the same, but the collaboration and communication channels differ.
| CUSTOMER-SPECIFIC PROJECT | SYSTEM HOUSE PROJECT | YOUR ADVANTAGE AS A SYSTEM INTEGRATOR |
|---|---|---|
| SIGMA is working directly on a customized product solution. | SIGMA supplements your team within a clearly defined scope of embedded systems. | They are expanding their range of services in a targeted manner. |
| The coordination works with the product company. | Roles, communication, and interfaces are defined in consultation with your system integrator. | You maintain a clear project structure. |
| Focus: the entire device and its functions. | Focus: agreed-upon special assignment, capacity support, or supervision. | Your team remains focused on hardware, customers, and the evaluation kit. |
A Board Support Package forms the hardware-related software foundation of an embedded platform. Depending on the customer project, customizations may be required at multiple levels - not always comprehensively, but often in a mutually dependent manner.
SIGMA handles the agreed-upon tasks within this software foundation and coordinates the interfaces with the customer’s system integrator and the partners involved.
We often start with standard kits and established platforms that are to be specifically expanded or adapted for a client project. To ensure that external support adds value to the project, we clarify the technical starting point, task allocation, and handoff points early on.
Understanding the Current Situation
What platform, hardware, software version, and technical goal are involved?
Clearly Define Responsibilities
Which tasks remain the responsibility of the system integrator, which ones does SIGMA handle, and what interfaces exist with other partners?
Providing Transparent Oversight of Implementation
Work steps, interim results, and technical decisions are tracked in a coordinated project model to ensure transparency.
Hand Over the Results or Continue Providing Support
Depending on the agreement, we will either hand over the project to your team, work with you on further development, or continue to provide technical support.
SIGMA does not develop its own hardware and is not tied to any single platform. This independence allows us to make technical assessments based on the specific requirements of each project - not on the basis of a particular hardware portfolio.
Our proven experience includes, among other things, ARM-based platforms, NXP i.MX and TI Sitara SoCs, custom carrier boards, and various Embedded Linux and Windows Embedded environments.
System integration projects differ depending on whether SIGMA completes a single task, remains involved in the project long-term, or hands over a development milestone for further use by your team. For this reason, the scope of the handover is determined on a project-by-project basis.
Typical components may include agreed-upon source code, technical documentation, build and integration instructions, and agreed-upon handover milestones. Upon request, SIGMA can accompany the continued use of the solution in the customer’s project through to production readiness, provide support for follow-up tasks, or handle technical after-sales support.
Yes. SIGMA supports system integrators with both clearly defined tasks and more comprehensive embedded development packages.
No. Full-scope BSP projects are possible, but in many system integration projects, the need is for specific customizations, specialized tasks, error analysis, or ongoing technical support.
The communication and role model is coordinated with the system integrator on a project-by-project basis. Depending on the project, SIGMA either engages in direct technical collaboration or operates within the project structure defined by the system integrator.
Yes. The scope of delivery - such as source code, documentation, and build and integration instructions - is agreed upon on a project-by-project basis.
Only to a limited extent. SIGMA develops embedded software for the provided or selected hardware platform, but is able, within certain limits, to independently perform troubleshooting, make changes, or implement minor enhancements to the hardware itself according to specifications.
It is helpful to provide information about the hardware platform, the current software version, the desired goal, available documentation, and the desired distribution of roles within the project.
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