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Message from the CEO
Welcome to Dawn VME Products, a time proven supplier of quality and
performance technology based commercial, COTS, and military products
used within the embedded and real time computer markets. Dawn is
classified as, a veteran owned, small business and serves a wide range
of customers and applications in markets such as military, aerospace,
space, defense, homeland security, medical, telecommunications,
research, entertainment, and others.
The multi-talented team at Dawn provides customers an in-depth and
broad range of system and product knowledge and expertise coupled with
the latest tools in design and manufacture to enable fast turn-around,
competitively priced, quality design, manufacturing and support of a
wide range of custom requirements along with a continual development
of new standard product technology.
Our comprehensive quality system allows us to work across the multiple
markets served and meet the stringent quality requirements of our
customers.
Dawn's products today range from simple commercial grade, convection
cooled, sheet metal/extrusion based packaging designs to complex
military, conduction-cooled, rugged air transport rack (ATR) systems.
Most products today contain some form of Dawn's exclusive internet
enabled, microprocessor based I/O monitoring and control technology
called RuSHTM.
The early days of Dawn
Dawn was founded February 19, 1985, a little over 4 years after the
VMEbus architecture was announced to the world. Prior to founding
Dawn, I was involved with product development and manufacture of
various CPU's, memory's, Graphics controllers, and backplanes for
VMEbus and MULTIbus and was an original member of the "VME bus
Standards Committee", a group of technologists prior to VITATM, that
authored, edited, and readied for IEEE approval the first release of
the VME specification.
Being an engineer and having a product development background, my goal
in founding Dawn was to produce a line of products and system tools
that would make it easy for engineers to create high performance and
reliable systems. The mottos I established at founding of Dawn were
"Designed by engineers for engineers" and "Quality and Performance
Products at Competitive Prices."
Dawn became the technological leader in backplanes in 1985 when it
invented and brought to market the concepts and the design for
"balanced and matched" impedance backplanes and introduced for the
very first time, a wide range of products based on this exceptional
high performance technology.
This new technology allowed Dawn to produce products for the industry
that greatly exceeded the performance of then available competitors'
products and the performance required by the VMEbus specification.
This exceptional performance resulted in substantial system
reliability and system margins.
In order to demonstrate and prove the performance of Dawn's products
over competitors to customers, Dawn invented, patented, and brought to
market a "Board Assembly For Validation and Characterization Of A Bus
System" This product provided a way for customers to empirically
measure and prove the signal and power distribution performance in
backplanes by generating and receiving signals across the backplane at
various speeds many times faster than required and by generating a
power and heat load to validate margins and cooling on a slot by slot
basis.
Dawn quickly became the backplane vendor of choice of many OEM's and
market share grew as Dawn developed a comprehensive range of backplane
types and sizes that far exceeded product offering of competitors and
carried them in stock for short lead time delivery.
Dawn Over the Years
Over the years, Dawn has achieved my goals I established at founding
by inventing and bringing to market a number of products that made
system design and construction an easier task for engineers. All
products have been quality and performance driven. Dawn's long term
membership with PICMG® and VITATM and participation on various standards
committees has allowed Dawn to offer the latest in technology and
design to our customers.
A significant part of our business over the years has been customer
specific design and custom product manufacture. To provide the best
support possible, Dawn has invested in the latest CAD Design tools in
3D modeling, thermal analysis and PWB design that when coupled with
our experience and expertise, allows Dawn to create new customer
designs and manufacture products in the least amount of time and at
the lowest cost.
It is amazing for me to look back over the years and realize the
numerous prestigious, high-profile programs that Dawn was selected to
participate in. It is a true testimony of customer faith, acceptance
and confidence in the team at Dawn.
Dawn Today
Today, Dawn stocks one of the widest ranges of standard commercial off
the shelf (COTS) products available from any manufacturer. This allows
engineers to quickly get their program or project off the ground and
running with the latest in technology. Our products span the full
spectrum of CompactPCI® and VMEbus technology from protoboards to
complete packaging systems. Check out our website. If you don't find
what you are looking for exactly, give us a call and we probably can
provide it for you.
We are located in a modern 42,000 square foot R&D facility which we
own, with lots of room for expansion.
We offer a full range of design services and manufacturing using the
latest CAD tools. Dawn uses SolidWorksTM and FlowWorksTM for 3D
Modeling, mechanical design, and Thermal Analysis. We are also able to
design in AutoCAD. AltiumTM is used for printed circuit board design. We
routinely turn product designs to manufactured products in time frames
that span a few days to a few weeks.
A few years ago, in the interest to create greater reliability and
system uptime, Dawn recognized the need to incorporate system health
monitoring and control of the systems it designed and sold. This led
to the development of the Dawn RuSHTM line of
products. This amazing technology consists of an extremely flexible
microprocessor based I/O controller and function/feature list
developed over 5 years worth of products and programs. Today,
RuSHTM technology is installed in numerous
military and commercial programs. No competitor has developed anything
close and in fact, we sell this technology to several of our
competitors. This technology adds tremendous value relative to its
cost and is internet enabled.
If this is your first look at Dawn, and you are trying to decide who
to trust your business to, you can rest assured you will get a quality
and performance product from Dawn at a fair price. It will also be
delivered to you on-time. If you are an established customer, then you
already know the reputation and corporate image Dawn has built over
the years. If you are in the area, give us a call and stop by to see
our facility. We would welcome your visit and love to see you.
Sincerely,
Barry Burnsides
CEO
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