ODM Solution
Are you looking to bring a new product to market but lack the in-house resources or expertise? Our Original Design Manufacturing (ODM) services are here to tackle your problem!
What is ODM Solution
An Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) is a team that designs a product for a company, and then manufactures the design for the company to sell. In many cases the ODM has an existing design, and the company requests subtle modifications to the existing design to meet the company’s product requirements.
The ODM approach provides a comprehensive solution for companies looking to introduce new products without the need for extensive investment in design and manufacturing. By partnering with Arira, companies can leverage specialized expertise, reduce costs, accelerate time-to-market, and focus on their core competencies while ensuring high-quality product development and manufacturing.
ODM vs Design Solutions
At Arira, we offer two paths for bringing your electronic product visions to life: our regular design solutions and our ODM solution. Choosing between a regular design solution and an ODM solution depends on your project's scope, timeline, and budget.
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ODM Portfolio
Arira is open to discussing ODM opportunities on almost all of your product needs. That said, there are certain technologies and product types that are better fits for the ODM business model with Arira.
- USB products
- Battery Management Systems
- IOT products
- FPGA platforms customized for specific requirements
Cooling System Controller
Our client needed to refresh a 10 year old design with modern components and newly added functionality.
We architected, designed, prototyped, and tested a custom ambient environment telemetry collector and controller for use in industrial cooling systems. This approach represented significant cost savings, and extra customization options, over standard off-the-shelf PLC based solutions.
USB Network Switch
Our client wanted an update of the usb hub with Ethernet as the uplink data connection instead of usb.
We architected, engineered, designed, prototyped, and tested the electronics for a high-density USB-C network switch featuring an Infineon Cypress HX3PD hub controller, 100Gbps uplink, and 44 SuperSpeed+ downstream ports supporting data rates up to 5 Gbps. The system incorporated AC-to-DC power conversion and flexible power delivery, supporting up to 30 watts per port across 44 ports. Our work extended through engineering validation, regulatory compliance testing, and volume production coordination, with enclosure design provided through its partner network.
USB Hub
Our client needed a high port count USB hub that provided full power per the USB PD3.0 specification.
We architected, engineered, designed, prototyped, and tested the electronics for a high-density USB hub featuring an Infineon Cypress HX3PD hub controller, four USB 3.2 Gen 2 upstream ports, and 36 SuperSpeed+ downstream ports supporting data rates up to 10 Gbps. The system incorporated AC-to-DC power conversion and flexible power delivery, supporting up to 15 watts per port across 36 ports or 100 watts per port across 12 ports. Our work extended through engineering validation, regulatory compliance testing, and volume production coordination, with enclosure design provided through its partner network.
Network Package Manager
Our client wanted to package an existing FPGA platform in a rack mount chassis, while adding control features that required a custom FPGA.
We engineered, designed, and tested the electronics for a network packet manager built around a Xilinx UltraScale FPGA evaluation board with dual FMC expansion slots. The system integrated a custom DAC FMC board, SMA connectivity, an SFP-based FMC interface, and a custom FPGA fan controller, with development spanning PCB design, FPGA coding, hardware functional testing, and system-level validation. We also coordinated enclosure design through its partner network.
Optical Network Manager
Our client wanted to leverage the compute power of a ComExpress module in a rack mount system with redundant power supplies and fiber optic interfaces.
We architected, engineered, designed, prototyped, and tested the electronics for an optical network manager featuring a custom carrier board, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, optical transmit and receive interfaces, and dual hot-swappable power supplies. The system integrated network connectivity, custom power delivery and monitoring, and an off-the-shelf Intel Atom C-based COM Express module, with us also coordinating enclosure design and BIOS development through its partner network.
Our ODM Partners
Jeff Hansell
As a high-tech team focused on system software, we don't have resources to design and manage the build of our custom hardware needs. Arira has consistently filled this need for our networking devices utilizing high speed FPGAs and fiber optic interfaces.
Chris Cole
Arira handled the end to end design, testing, and certification of our custom hardware, plus firmware qual and debugging, so we could focus on the software and systems further up the stack. As a major tech company, we could have developed our own hardware and ramped up our own CMs, but we have enough projects that are over budget and behind schedule already, so being able to count on Arira to bring this new product to life for us was a huge win!