Planning ranges — final pricing confirmed November 2026.
Every price on this page is a planning range. Your price is a fixed quote, issued after a scope review and approved before work starts.
Every design band buys a fabrication-ready hardware design package: schematic, PCB layout, BOM, and fab and assembly outputs, DRC/DFM-clean, with a design review at each stage. Built prototypes and tested prototypes are separate components (see "What a quote covers").
| Band | Planning range | What the price buys | Example project | Typical size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | $6,000–$12,000 | Design package + power-tree calculations and a check against the vendor reference; follows the vendor reference's stackup and routing rules | 6-layer NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano carrier: 2 MIPI cameras, USB 3.2, Gigabit Ethernet, 9–20 V input, following NVIDIA's reference carrier | up to ~1,000 pins, up to 6 layers |
| High-speed | $12,000–$24,000 | Above + stackup and impedance plan agreed with your fab, and routing constraints for each high-speed interface | 8-layer single-board computer: applications processor with soldered-down LPDDR4X, PCIe Gen3 M.2, 2× Gigabit Ethernet, PMIC sequencing | ~1,000–2,000 pins, 8–10 layers |
| Complex | $24,000–$48,000 | Above + SI/PI simulation of the critical interfaces agreed at scope review, power-sequencing and thermal checks, and a bring-up test plan | 12–14-layer FPGA board: DDR4 memory down, 10 GbE transceivers, jitter-cleaned clock tree, 50 A+ core rail | 2,000+ pins or 10+ layers |
| Beyond | Engineer quote after file review | Scoped per project | RF-sampling converter boards, multi-board systems | — |
Limited modifications and narrowly defined board work get an individual fixed quote.
Your schedule is set in your fixed quote, from the scope we agree. Every quote states a start window, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria.
What places a project in a band: risk, not pin count. We look at:
Pins and layers are a secondary check. A module carrier (memory on the module) usually sits a band lower than a processor-plus-DDR board with the same interfaces.
Five questions on the risks that set a band. Interfaces and memory set the starting band; power and verification can raise it by one; the reference design and your starting point only move the price within the band. The result is a planning range, not a quote. Nothing you pick leaves this page, and nothing is added to your message.
Pre-fab schematic review — $1,500 fixed
Schematic + layout review — separately scoped, from $2,500.
Engineering change packages start at $1,500. Each proposal states scope, price, schedule impact and required verification before work begins. Related changes can be bundled.
We keep three things apart:
Every quote lists five components. Each one is marked included, optional, excluded or customer-supplied, with who owns it and when it is done.
| Component | In a typical quote | Owner | Done when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Schematic & layout | Included, priced by band | Us | You sign off schematic and layout; DRC/DFM clean; fab and assembly files released |
| 2. BSP & firmware | Excluded — we don't sell it | Your team or your software partner | Your criteria. We hand over the pin-mux table, device-tree notes and power-up sequence |
| 3. Prototype & parts | Customer-supplied by default: you order fab and parts with our package. Managed build (complex boards only): we order for you; fab and parts at cost, prepaid by you, landed cost including tariffs, plus a stated management fee | You by default; us for a managed build | Boards delivered to you |
| 4. Bring-up & test | Optional fixed stage, quoted after fab release | Us for hardware; software owner named in the quote | The hardware acceptance tests listed in the quote pass |
| 5. Revisions & done criteria | Included | Us and you | Corrections free; feedback milestones named; start window, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria stated; schedule, done criteria and file hand-over written into the quote |
Board already built, but bring-up is stuck? We offer scoped debug. We quote it separately once we have access to the schematic, layout and BOM.
Any quote that includes bring-up or debug names:
We are accountable for the tests named in the quote; we don't guarantee results beyond them.
Send a short project summary → a named engineer replies with fit and availability → a bounded proposal.
Fixed quote after scope review. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
A named engineer replies with a fit assessment, availability and the next step. Then you get a bounded proposal with a fixed price. No attachments needed yet.
Easiest first step: the pre-fab schematic review, $1,500 fixed. Custom design starts with a short qualification of scope and fit.