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Theta Engineering did the circuit design, circuit board artwork design and the low-level firmware development for a new generation of the Knox Sentralok key release system.  This project utilized three firmware developers and an electronics engineer.  Numerous technologies were involved:

bulletC code development on the MSP430 microcontroller
bullet10-year lithium-powered real-time clock implemented using the MSP430 and taking advantage of its low-power features and dual-crystal capability (one high-speed crystal for normal operation and one 32KHz watch crystal for time keeping).
bulletMSK Modem.  MSK stands for "Minimum Shift Keying".  It is a form of audio modulation optimized for data transmission over analog radios.
bulletDTMF detection and transmission.  "Dual Tone Multi-Frequency" signaling is what you hear every time you dial a touch-tone phone.
bulletInfrared communications using IrDA-type transmitters and receivers
bulletSerial flash memory
bulletSecurity and encryption through the use of Dallas Semiconductor's SHA-1(Secure Hash Standard) devices
bulletLCD/keypad/beeper user interface
bulletRS-232 communications

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