Imprecision Systems LLC

Design, engineering and supply chain for your embedded product.

Bring us your silicon, your board, or just the problem. We design the board, bring up its bootloader, kernel and drivers on mainline-based Linux, and take it through sourcing, pilot builds, certification and freight — then maintain the software and cover component shortages and end of life for the life of your product.

Start a conversation What we do

Founded: 2015
Offices: New Jersey and Salt Lake City, USA
Focus: Embedded compute, IoT and edge devices
Own brands: Libre Computer, LoveRPi® and GenBasic®

Services

What we do

Design

From SoC selection to a reviewed layout the factory can build and test.

Architecture and SoC / module selection
Schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout
High-speed interface routing
Power, regulation and thermal design
Design for manufacture and test
Prototype builds through our partner: PCB fabrication, stencil, SMT and assembly
Mechanical, enclosure, cable and connector integration
Reference-design adaptation and cost-down redesign
Feasibility studies and technical due diligence
Design review of existing boards

Engineering

Your board running maintained, mainline-based Linux, from bootloader to drivers.

Board bring-up and hardware validation
Bootloader, kernel and BSP
Device trees, drivers and peripheral enablement
On-device AI integration
OS images, provisioning and field-update design
Production test fixtures and software
Security review of vendor boot firmware and of our own firmware changes
Upstream-first, long-term maintenance

Supply chain

Parts sourced and costed to a delivered price, builds inspected and certified, finished goods shipped.

Authorised-distribution and open-market quotes compared; suppliers qualified
BOM costed to a delivered, duty-paid price; tooling, enclosure and packaging vendors
Alternates qualified; shortage, allocation and end-of-life cover
Pilot builds, yield analysis and quality plans
Through our partner: factory audits, first-article and pre-shipment inspection, counterfeit screening and incoming inspection
EMC pre-scan; FCC, CE, UKCA and equivalent certification
RoHS, REACH and materials declarations; labelling, packaging and marketplace listing requirements
Through our fulfillment partner: consolidation, kitting, labelling and repack
Export documentation and HTS classification; air and ocean freight, DDP or FOB; customs and duty review

Why it lasts

Built to be produced and supported for years

Design

A board designed for manufacture and test, with production test fixtures and software.

Engineering

Software maintenance on mainline-based Linux, with software updates over the product's life.

Supply chain

Alternates qualified, with shortage and end-of-life cover over the product's life.

Vendor firmware is audited rather than trusted, and on-device AI runs with no cloud round trip. Our technology →

Proof

We ship our own hardware too

We design, source, certify, stock and support all three of our brands ourselves, so the design, engineering and supply chain we offer you are the ones we run for our own products.

Our software runs first on our own products, so we carry the cost of every engineering choice for years after a board ships. That is why we build on mainline, in-kernel software: it is the kind we can maintain for the life of a product.

Libre Computer

Our platform line of open, standards-compliant single-board computers — built to run mainline, upstream software rather than a vendor kernel that stops being updated.

libre.computer →

LoveRPi®

Our single-board-computer retail brand, serving developers since 2015.

loverpi.com →

GenBasic®

USB wireless adapters and power supplies for single-board computers.

genbasic.com →

Research: gaema, our research arm, works on machine-learning systems, models and tools. gaema.ai →

Process

How we work

We scope to the actual gap rather than to a fixed package, and we say plainly when a project should not be built.

Ways to engage

Advisory review — a second opinion on an architecture, schematic or BOM
Fixed-scope design — a design project with a defined deliverable
Sourcing engagement — sourcing on its own, without a design project
Turnkey build to order — from concept through certified, delivered units

Scope Requirements, constraints, volumes, target cost, and the regulations the product must meet.
Architect Silicon and module selection, block diagram, preliminary BOM, and a costed set of options rather than a single answer.
Design Schematic, multilayer PCB layout, power and thermal design.
Prove Bring-up on real hardware from the first day, security review of vendor boot firmware and of our own firmware changes, and EMC pre-scan.
Industrialize Design for manufacture and test, test fixtures, pilot run, yield and quality plans, and certification.
Deliver Consolidation, kitting and labelling through our fulfillment partner, export documentation, and air or ocean freight, DDP or FOB.
Sustain Software maintenance on mainline-based Linux, software updates, and shortage and end-of-life cover over the product's life.

Markets

Markets we build for

Small, connected, Linux-capable computers that have to be trusted.

Industrial & embedded control
Robotics
Edge AI and inference appliances
Networking & gateways
Medical and laboratory instruments
Energy and telecom equipment
Government and infrastructure suppliers

Contact

Tell us what you are building

Send the problem, the volumes you have in mind, and where you are in the process. If we are not the right fit we will say so early.

We start with a scoping call, and can sign an NDA before you share details. You keep one point of contact across design, engineering and supply chain.

General & new projects

contact@imprecisionsystems.com

Bought one of our products?

Libre Computer support
LoveRPi support
GenBasic

Offices

New Jersey, USA
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA