Hardware Design
Hardware Design & PCB Engineering
Schematic capture through production-ready Gerber output. High-speed layout, signal integrity, power delivery, DFM review, plus turn-key product development from concept to certified production. Delivered by a team that designs its own hardware.
What We Do
Hardware Engineering Services in India
Six engineering disciplines covering the full hardware product lifecycle, from schematic architecture through production support and field failure analysis.
Schematic Capture & Design
Complete schematic design from system architecture through production-ready netlists. Power tree design, component selection, design rule validation, and Bill of Materials optimisation for cost and availability.
Multi-layer PCB Layout
High-density PCB layout up to 20+ layers, controlled impedance routing, high-speed differential pairs, power plane design, via optimisation, and DRC-clean Gerber output. From 2-layer prototypes to 24-layer production boards.
Signal Integrity & Power Integrity
Pre-layout and post-layout SI/PI analysis, reflection analysis, crosstalk simulation, power delivery network impedance, decoupling capacitor optimisation, and eye diagram validation for high-speed interfaces.
DFM & DFA Review
Design for Manufacturability and Design for Assembly review, ensuring your design can be reliably produced at scale. Padstack optimisation, solder paste aperture review, testability analysis, and fabrication constraint validation.
Turn-key Product Development
End-to-end product development from concept through certified production, system architecture, schematic, layout, prototype build, testing, certification support, and production handoff with complete documentation.
Production Support
Ongoing production engineering support, ECO management, component obsolescence mitigation, re-spin management, yield optimisation, and field failure analysis for deployed products.
Need help with hardware design?
Our hardware engineers specialize in schematic capture, multi-layer PCB layout, signal integrity, and turn-key product development.
Domain Expertise
Industries We Design For
Production-proven hardware across defence, industrial, and embedded platform domains. Every board listed here was designed, built, and shipped by GSAS from Bangalore.
Defence & Aerospace
12+ projectsStar sensors, sun sensors, data acquisition modules, missile prototyping boards. MIL-STD compliance and defence-grade PCB design for Indian defence programmes.
Industrial & IoT
20+ deploymentsHotel automation modules, PCI-DIO data acquisition cards, connected sensor platforms, and edge computing hardware for production environments.
Embedded Platforms
3 eval board seriesArm-based evaluation boards and development kits, LPC 1768 (Cortex-M3) and LPC 2929 (ARM9) platforms used across Indian engineering labs.
Our Products
GSAS Product Range
Hardware designed, built, and shipped from Bangalore. These are not partner products, they are GSAS-engineered products used by teams across India.
Digital Microscopes
2MP portable to 4K UHD autofocus, PCB inspection, QC, and rework
View microscopes →ARM Development Boards
Cortex-M3 (LPC1768) and ARM9 (LPC2929) evaluation platforms
View boards →Microprocessor Trainers
8085, 8086/8088, and 8051 trainer kits for engineering education
View trainers →Peripheral Study Cards
8251/8253, 8255, 8259, 8279, plug-in IC training modules
View study cards →Interface Modules
Analog, display, input, and motor control peripheral boards
View modules →Board Diagnostics (FADOS)
FADOS circuit board testers, assembled by GSAS for CBT Electronic
View FADOS →Portfolio
Hardware We Have Designed & Shipped
Real boards, real products, real engineering, designed and manufactured by GSAS in Bangalore since 2010.
Toolchain
PCB Design Tools We Use & Distribute
The Siemens EDA platform is our primary PCB design toolchain. We use these tools in our own hardware projects and distribute them across India with local application engineering support.
Siemens EDA Xpedition Enterprise
Enterprise PCB design platform with integrated SI/PI analysis, constraint-driven routing, and team design collaboration for complex multi-layer boards.
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Siemens EDA HyperLynx
Unified signal integrity, power integrity, and electrical DRC, catch high-speed layout issues, PDN violations, and EMC problems before fabrication.
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Siemens EDA Valor NPI
New Product Introduction analysis, automated DFM checks, panelisation review, and manufacturing process validation before sending to fabrication.
View product →Why GSAS
A Design House, Not a Body Shop
GSAS Micro Systems, Company Introduction
Boards Shipped
We do not just design PCBs, we manufacture and ship GSAS-branded hardware products used across India.
Enterprise Toolchain
We design on Xpedition, the same tools we distribute and support. Battle-tested, not theoretical.
Mission-Critical Track Record
12+ defence projects including star sensors for satellites and data acquisition for strategic weapons systems.
Blog
Hardware Design Insights
AI Data Centers in India: Test, Measurement & Memory Boom
AI is a hardware supercycle. Every AI rack has to be designed, brought up, powered, fed with memory, and kept alive, and each of those is a test, measurement and memory problem. Here is the full engineering toolchain behind the AI data center, mapped to what Indian teams can buy today through GSAS.
AI and Intelligent Automation in PCB Design: How Siemens Xpedition Removes the Work That Slows Indian Teams Down
Siemens' own engineers describe a 'productivity paradox' in PCB design: the tools have never been more capable, yet throughput has not kept pace. This is how AI, intelligent automation, design reuse and connected data continuity in Xpedition Standard close that gap, and what it means for PCB design teams in Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi NCR.
From Discovery to Production: The Modern PCB Design Journey in Siemens Xpedition: for Indian Teams
Siemens' Xpedition walkthrough 'From discovery to production' traces a single connected PCB journey, AI-assisted circuit discovery, cloud-connected tuning and simulation, AI-assisted command prediction, real-time supply-chain analysis, online design reviews, and manufacturability analysis with price estimation. Here is what that flow means for PCB design teams in Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi NCR, and how GSAS can share it when you ask.
HyperLynx 2604: Every New Feature for India's Signal & Power Integrity Teams
HyperLynx 2604 lands with parallelised DDRx batch simulation, PCIe Gen 7 PAM4 compliance, a Time-Domain PDN wizard, GDSII reassignment and an in-app Product Support Copilot, here is what each release video actually shows, and what it means for SI/PI teams in India.
Siemens EDA 2026-04 Release Recap: What Changed in Xpedition, HyperLynx, and Valor for India Teams
Siemens shipped Xpedition 2604, HyperLynx 2604, and Valor NPI 2604 together, a coordinated release that touches PCB layout, signal/power integrity, and manufacturing sign-off. Here is the single index to all three deep-dives, with a guide to which teams in India should read what.
Accelerating PCB Design with AI, Reuse, and Connected Workflows: for India's Engineering Teams
How Siemens Xpedition Standard combines AI-powered design entry (CELUS), placement and routing automation, hierarchical reuse blocks, and Blueprint release powered by Valor, and what that combination changes for PCB teams in Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Delhi NCR working under real Indian deadlines.
Have a Hardware Design Challenge?
Whether you need a PCB designed, a product developed from concept to production, or signal integrity analysis on a high-speed layout, our hardware engineering team in Bengaluru is ready.