ASTL Enterprises, LLCEngineering
ASTL does the hardcore engineering work required to bring a product concept to fruition.
Testing
Due to the broad nature of our experience, ASTL could also be thought of as a testing firm.
Missions
ASTL is frequently contracted for a specific-function mission activity. We are the best in the industry for bringing up hardware and writing awesome software.
Acumen
ASTL understands deadlines, project management, status reporting and customer information specs and marketing considerations.
Industries
The embedded world is at once huge and tiny. ASTL has worked in defense, aerospace, financial services, medical technology, consumer applications, government, and many more, but always with the same tools and colleagues. Our wide ranging industry experience has led to a series of unexpected breakthroughs in seemly unrelated fields - i.e. routine space exploration techniques begat startling speed increases in financial services payment processing.
Processors
Processor dexterity is critical for testing and diagnostic success. Our significant expertise is amplified with clients who use ARM cores. As with all invention-based terrain, experience creates competence, and ASTL's experience began with the 8-bit Intel 8080 chip. We have quite literally evolved and matured with the semiconductor industry.
Environments
More than any other consideration, Operating Environment should drive your engagement decision. ASTL specializes in RTOS (including kernels, micro-kernels and supervisors) environments, in fact, we've written a couple of RTOS's ourselves. But we also have extensive experience designing bare metal software where the requirements don't justify an RTOS.
Linguistics
We are language intimate, with over 5 million lines of code developed to date. The bulk of our experience is in C and Perl, but assembly, Fortran and Cobol as antiques still show up in conversion and legacy interface projects... no problem.