Imprecision Systems

Imprecision Systems LLC

Electronics consulting, design, and supply chain.

Engineering in the United States. Sourcing, design, and logistics teams in Shenzhen. That combination is the whole point: a cost estimate that reflects what parts trade for this week, a layout reviewed by people who can walk into the factory that will build it, and finished goods that arrive at your dock as a delivered price rather than a problem.

Start a conversation What we do
Founded
2015
Footprint
New Jersey and Salt Lake City, USA; Shenzhen, China
Focus
Embedded compute, IoT, and edge devices
Own brands
Libre Computer, LoveRPi® and GenBasic®

Services

One team from idea to shipped units

Most product failures happen at the seams — between the schematic and the factory, between the driver and the SoC vendor, between the BOM and what is actually purchasable this quarter. We work across all of them.

Bare circuit board showing fine copper routing and pad arrays
01

Electronics consulting

Independent technical judgement before you commit capital.

  • Architecture and SoC / module selection
  • Feasibility studies and technical due diligence
  • BOM costed to a delivered, duty-paid price
  • Factory and vendor evaluation, visited in person
  • Roadmap, lifecycle, and second-source planning
Tweezers placing a small package onto an unpopulated board
02

Hardware design

Schematic through fabrication-ready release.

  • Schematic capture and multilayer PCB layout
  • DDR, PCIe, USB, MIPI and other high-speed routing
  • Power tree, regulation, and thermal design
  • Mechanical, enclosure, cable and connector integration
  • Prototype turns in days — fab, stencil and SMT in one city
  • Signal-integrity and design review of existing boards
Populated board with processor and support silicon in close focus
03

Embedded engineering

Silicon is only as good as the software that brings it up.

  • Board bring-up and hardware validation
  • Bootloader, kernel, and BSP work
  • Device trees, drivers, and peripheral enablement
  • OS images, provisioning, and field update paths
  • Open-source stacks and upstream-first maintenance
Pick-and-place head above a panel of boards on an assembly machine
04

Manufacturing & NPI

The transition from working prototype to repeatable product.

  • Design for manufacture and design for test
  • Factory test fixtures and production test software
  • Pilot builds, yield analysis, and process tuning
  • Factory audits, first-article and pre-shipment inspection
  • Quality plans, inspection criteria, and RMA loops
  • Line supervision by our own staff, not a hired agent
Aerial view of a container terminal stacked with freight
05

Sourcing & supply chain

Parts that exist, at a price that holds, when you need them.

  • Authorised distribution and Shenzhen open-market sourcing
  • Supplier qualification, price and MOQ negotiated in-market
  • Counterfeit screening and incoming inspection
  • Allocation, shortage, and end-of-life mitigation
  • Multi-sourcing and drop-in alternate qualification
  • Inventory, forecasting, and fulfilment
Palletised finished goods on warehouse racking
06

Compliance & release

Getting a product legally saleable in its target markets.

  • Pre-scan and remediation for EMC issues
  • FCC, CE, UKCA and equivalent certification paths
  • RoHS, REACH, and materials declarations
  • Safety, labelling, packaging, and documentation
  • Retail and marketplace listing requirements
A design is only finished when the factory can build it twice.

We measure our work by what comes off the line in volume, not by what passed on the bench once. That is why design, embedded software, manufacturing, and sourcing sit in the same team here rather than in four contracts that blame each other.

How we work

Engaged at whatever depth the problem needs

Some clients need a second opinion on a schematic. Others hand us a concept and take delivery of palletised, certified product. We scope to the actual gap rather than to a fixed package, and we say plainly when a project should not be built.

  • Advisory retainer
  • Fixed-scope design project
  • Embedded engineering block
  • Sourcing engagement
  • NPI & factory transfer
  • Logistics & fulfilment only
  • Turnkey build to order
  1. Scope Requirements, constraints, volumes, target cost, and the regulatory markets the product has to enter.
  2. Architect Silicon and module selection, block diagram, preliminary BOM, and a costed set of options rather than a single answer.
  3. Design Schematic, layout, and the embedded software needed to prove the board actually works.
  4. Prove Prototype builds, bring-up, validation, and EMC pre-scan before anything is committed to tooling.
  5. Industrialise DFM/DFT, test fixtures, pilot run, and factory transfer with our own people on the floor.
  6. Sustain Supply continuity, component substitutions, revisions, and software maintenance over the product's life.

Shenzhen

Three teams where the parts and the factories are

Most of what goes wrong in hardware goes wrong half a world away from the people trying to fix it. Our sourcing, design, and logistics teams are in Shenzhen, on the same side of that gap as the component market, the fabs, the assembly houses and the freight. They are staff, not agents, and each can be engaged on its own — you do not have to buy a design project to get the sourcing.

Electronics production line with equipment in a modern factory

Sourcing

Prices and lead times read off the live market rather than a distributor web page.

  • Quotes from authorised distribution and the open market, compared
  • Supplier qualification and factory audits, in person
  • Price, MOQ, and payment terms negotiated face to face
  • Counterfeit screening, decap and incoming inspection
  • Shortage and allocation cover; alternates found and qualified
  • Tooling, enclosure, cable and packaging vendors

Design

Layout and mechanical work done next door to whoever will build it.

  • Schematic, PCB layout, and mechanical / enclosure design
  • Prototype turns in days — fab, stencil, SMT, assembly
  • DFM feedback from the actual line, before release
  • Test fixtures and production test software built on site
  • Reference-design adaptation and cost-down redesign
  • Sample builds and pilot runs supervised by our own engineers

Logistics

Finished goods that arrive as a delivered price, not a customs problem.

  • Consolidation, repack, kitting, and labelling
  • Export documentation and HTS classification
  • Air and ocean freight booking; DDP or FOB as you prefer
  • Customs coordination and duty exposure review
  • Marketplace prep, including FBA-ready cartons and barcodes
  • Buffer stock, drop-ship, and returns handling

Markets

Where our experience is deepest

Our background is in small, connected, Linux-capable computers and the ecosystems around them — the class of hardware where board design, kernel work, and component sourcing cannot be treated as separate jobs.

  • Single-board computers
  • Compute modules & carrier boards
  • Industrial & embedded control
  • IoT and connected devices
  • Edge AI and inference appliances
  • Digital signage & displays
  • Networking & gateways
  • Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & RF adapters
  • Power supplies & adapters
  • Media and set-top devices
  • Accessories, cabling & peripherals
  • Consumer electronics

Our brands

We run our own hardware business too

The fastest way to judge advice is to ask whether the adviser has to live with it. We do. We design, source, certify, stock, and support product under three of our own brands, through the same factories, the same component market, and the same freight lanes we run for clients. It is also why we argue for mainline, in-kernel software on client projects: our own products carry the maintenance cost of that choice, for years after they ship.

Libre Computer

Our single-board-computer brand for open, standards-compliant hardware — boards built to run mainline, upstream software rather than a vendor kernel that stops being updated.

libre.computer →

LoveRPi®

Our SBC retail brand, serving the market since 2015 with boards, accessories, cables, storage, and enclosures — sold direct and through the major marketplaces.

loverpi.com →

GenBasic®

USB wireless adapters and power supplies for single-board computers — dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on the kernel's own mac80211 stack, and a UL Listed 5 V supply the adapters are tested against.

genbasic.com →

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.

General & new projects

contact@imprecisionsystems.com

Offices

New Jersey, USA
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Shenzhen, Guangdong, China

Our brands

Libre Computer — libre.computer
LoveRPi® — loverpi.com
GenBasic® — genbasic.com