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ByteSnap Design

Name: ByteSnap Design
Address: Park Point, 17 High Street, Longbridge, Birmingham, B312UQ, GB
Telephone: +441212955400

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ByteSnap Design

UK-leading Electronics & Software Design Consultancy Trusted partner for businesses worldwide since 2008.

ByteSnap Design is a UK leading embedded electronics and software design consultancy, delivering robust, no drama design solutions, accelerating time-to-market. Benefit from turnkey services and peace of mind through our Automated Product Design Service. With ByteSnap Design you can avoid the frustration of dealing with suppliers who can only offer one part of the solution, leaving you to coordina

te multiple vendors, while managing technical gaps. You’re in safe hands with experts who truly understand both hardware and software, whilst managing the complexities of your embedded systems development project. Examples of how we help:
• Assessment of complete project requirements with early identification of potential risks
• End-to-end development from concept though to manufacture
• Semiconductor partnerships with leading brands, such as NXP, Microchip, Digi & Arrow

With ISO 9001:2015 certification and a proven track record across medical devices, EV charging systems, industrial solutions, IoT and more, you can be sure of world-class engineering standards. We offer engineering expertise across embedded Linux & firmware development, FPGA design, IoT solutions, low power wireless, PCB design, and ATEX design; spanning multiple sectors, including energy, automotive, security, medical, and industrial. Talk to our award-winning team to see how ByteSnap Design can get your product to market quicker and ensure your engineering project’s success.

26/05/2026

We're exhibiting at Design & Engineering Expo (part of Smart Manufacturing Week) at the NEC, Birmingham on 3–4 June.

If machine vision, edge AI, or embedded hardware is on your product roadmap, come and find us in Hall 5, Stand H96.

We'll be running a live demo of our real-time edge AI vision system - object detection and identification running entirely on-device, on an Infineon PSOC Edge. No cloud. No latency trade-offs. Your data stays on the device.

Whether you're early in scoping a project or already mid-development and hitting obstacles, our engineers will be on hand to talk through the specifics.

👉 Find us: Hall 5, Stand H96
📅 3–4 June 2026 | NEC, Birmingham

20/05/2026

Any one of these can brick your devices in the field:
- Power loss mid-update
- A corrupted download that passed the checksum
- A bootloader with no rollback path
- A Friday afternoon push to 100% of devices.

We've seen it happen. And the 2am call about a thousand field devices that won't boot is not a pleasant one.

The root cause is nearly always the same: OTA firmware security was not part of the design from the beginning.

We’ve been fixing OTA failures for over 15 years. Swipe to view five things that consistently separate products that survive in the field from those that don't.

Read the full guide📓
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01/05/2026

Spotted: a wild ByteSnap waterbottle at Uluru (Ayer's Rock).
📸 Captured by Director, Dunstan Power, who recently returned from a trip to Oz.
⚠️ Just a reminder that next Monday is a UK Bank Holiday and so the office will be closed. We’ll be returning to our desks on Tuesday 5th May.

In the meantime, feel free to drop us an email or reach out via our website.

24/04/2026

Golden hour over Longbridge 🌇

This stunning sunset was captured by Senior Software Engineer Chris, from the office balcony earlier this week - not a bad view to end the day.

14/04/2026

Are you looking to replace your 2G or 3G modem? The standard you select will define your next five years 📡

Most teams we speak with, ask "what's available?"
What they should be asking is "what does my device actually do?"
Follow our flowchart and you'll land in one of four places:
📍 Static, low data, UK-only → NB-IoT
📍 Mobile, low latency needed → LTE Cat-M1
📍 Multi-region or high data rate → Cat-1 bis
📍 None of the above fit cleanly → you probably need a multi-standard modem

Unfortunately, UK coverage maps show population-weighted averages, not rural or town-level gaps. Cat-M1 rollout is still patchy vs Europe. And if your device crosses borders, what works here may not work there.

In our latest blog, we walk through each of these decisions in full, including the three places retrofit migrations actually go wrong, and why antenna mismatch alone can cost you £15-25k at certification.

Check our quick ‘Standard Selector’ tool.

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01/04/2026

Can your circuit survive two simultaneous failures?

⚠️ For Ex ia (Zone 0) certification, it has to.

IEC 60079-11 requires your design to remain intrinsically safe even when two protective components fail at once:
❌ One fault - You need a 1.5× safety factor
❌❌ Two faults - You still need to hold at 1.0×

In practice, that means three Zener diodes where you'd instinctively use two - because if two fail, the third must still shunt the full fault energy safely.

Dual-fault is just one layer of the Zone 0 power budget challenge.
In our latest blog, master the intrinsically safe power budget for Ex ia compliance and learn how to manage stored energy, T-ratings, and dual-fault safety for Zone 0 electronics.

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26/03/2026

🚨 WirelessHART vs HART: Choosing the Right Industrial Protocol

Choosing between Wired HART and WirelessHART can be a project risk decision.

We've broken down every critical factor so you can make the call with confidence, before it's in the design.

Swipe through to see the full comparison >>

Read the full analysis on our blog. Link in comments.

18/03/2026

⚠️ Has your cellular migration stalled?

Every failed certification attempt in a cellular migration costs £15-25K.

Most manufacturers only find this out after the third attempt, six months behind schedule, with their engineers stretched across two projects and their competitors already shipping.

At ByteSnap Design, we’ve already guided 50+ manufacturers through cellular migrations. We know exactly where these projects stall and how to get them moving again, in half the time.

If your connected products are overdue a network upgrade, the time to move is now, not when the deadline is already past.

Read more about our cellular migration fast track.

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08/03/2026

🌟 From all of us at ByteSnap & Versinetic, Happy International Women's Day! Today, we celebrate the incredible women in our teams and across the globe. Your resilience, contribution, creativity, and strength inspire us every day. Here's to continuing to support, empower and uplift one another - not just today but always 💪💜

19/02/2026

🛑 Drowning in CVE alerts?

102 new vulnerabilities are published every single day.

And with MDR 2026 and CRA 2027 compliance deadlines approaching fast, manufacturers running embedded Linux devices can no longer afford to treat security as an afterthought.

Managing Linux patches in-house can cost £25,000+ per product line annually in engineering time alone - before you factor in breach risk, tooling, and compliance overhead.

Most engineering teams are already stretched, unable to cope with this.

✅ Introducing ByteSnap's Premium Software Security Service

In partnership with Digi International, ByteSnap Design offers continuous embedded Linux security management for connected manufacturing devices - without adding to your team's workload.

The service covers three areas: assessing your specific device configuration to identify real risks (not generic CVE noise), applying and testing targeted patches across your hardware platform, and delivering monthly audit-ready reports to satisfy MDR, CRA, and IEC 62443 requirements.

It works on NXP and ST platforms - including i.MX8, i.MX9, and ST MP1/MP2 - and isn't limited to Digi hardware. If your current Linux platform can't support updates, ByteSnap can help migrate to one that can.

The right time to get clarity on your security posture is before a compliance deadline forces the issue.

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Park Point, 17 High Street, Longbridge
Birmingham
B312UQ

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 6pm
Tuesday	9am - 6pm
Wednesday	9am - 6pm
Thursday	9am - 6pm
Friday	9am - 6pm

Telephone

+441212955400

Website

https://www.bytesnap.com/

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