Smart Interfaces, Real Results: Inside Simtek’s Electrical Engineering Team
- ccowley
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
High-fidelity simulated avionics don’t just look real—they have to communicate, respond, and integrate with the host sytem. That’s where Simtek’s Electrical Engineering team comes in.
Using a combination of proven interface solutions and customer-specific design, our engineers build the electrical backbone that makes each panel, display, and instrument behave exactly as your system requires.
If your training device needs rock-solid I/O, clean integration, and dependable behavior, this is the team that makes it happen.
Electrical Engineering Built Around Your Specs
Every program starts with understanding your requirements:
Target platform and avionics architecture
Required signals and interfaces (discrete, analog, digital, PoE, Ethernet, CAN, etc.)
I/O counts, redundancy, and safety needs
Integration with your existing host computers, I/O systems, and software
Our electrical engineering team then maps those requirements to a solution that blends standard building blocks with custom design—so you get exactly what you need, nothing more and nothing less.
Using Proven Interfaces as the Foundation
On our website, you’ll find examples of the interface approaches and solutions we use across many programs. Behind the scenes, our engineers take those proven concepts and:
Adapt them to your platform and device architecture
Scale them for small trainers or large multi-rack systems
Combine them with custom circuits or boards where needed
These interfaces often include:
Input/output boards
Backer boards and interconnects
Signal conditioning and power distribution
Connectorization and harness strategies
By starting from known, reliable interface patterns, we can move faster while still tailoring everything down to the last detail of your specification.
Designing Interfaces Down to Every Detail
For each simulated avionics assembly—whether it’s a single panel or an entire cockpit suite—our electrical engineers design:
Schematics that define every connection, signal, and power path
PCB layouts optimized for reliability, manufacturability, and serviceability
Connector and pinout definitions that match your cabling and rack layouts
Harnessing and interface documentation that make integration clear and repeatable
This detail-driven approach ensures that when your hardware arrives:
The signals are where you expect them to be
The timing and behavior match your system design
The interfaces plug cleanly into your existing architecture
No guesswork, no “mystery boxes”—just clearly engineered, clearly documented electrical interfaces.
Seamless Integration With Your Simulation Environment
Our job doesn’t end at the panel connector. Simtek’s electrical engineering team works to make sure your simulated avionics fit cleanly into the bigger system picture.
We work closely with your team to align interface definitions, test plans, and integration steps, so bringing Simtek hardware online is as smooth as possible.
Reliable Interfaces for High-Fidelity Training
In the end, high-fidelity simulation depends on trustworthy interfaces:
Switches that always report the right state
Encoders and rotary devices that behave predictably
Lights, indicators, and displays that respond when and how they should
Simtek’s electrical engineering team—using the same class of interface solutions you see featured on our website—designs those interfaces down to every detail of your specification, so your teams can focus on training, not troubleshooting.
