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Crownhill Associates is an SME specialising in design, manufacture and supply of electronic goods and services, operating internationally within the electronics and telecommunications sector.

The speed of technological change, the anticipation of present and future needs, and the pursuit of technical excellence are all familiar challenges for Crownhill's design team. We understand that the difficult but essential task is to listen and understand customers' needs before developing a solution.

Crownhill has enjoyed sustained growth since its inception and has become a leading niche provider in the global Smart Card market.

Crownhill values teamwork, a commitment to achievement, openness, empowerment of the individual and the maximisation of its intellectual capital, all of which contribute to the pursuit of continuous improvement and sustainable success.

Crownhill aims to provide above average returns for shareholders and a challenging environment for employees through achieving excellence in the quality of the products and services offered to customers.

Crownhill supply device programmers, electronic components, specialising in Smart Card technology and embedded microcontroller application development, Crownhill also provide bespoke product design and build services including PCB design and Enclosure prototyping.

Crownhill's purpose built facilities in Cambridge, England. Facilitate design and build of prototypes and final assembly of finished items, in house. Including design and manufacture of printed circuit boards and CNC automated assembly. Crownhill's capabilities extend to custom IC design and engineering to Silicon level.

Smart Card and Smart Systems Design and Supply

Crownhill have been working with smart cards since the early 90's and the company has a detailed understanding of the processes involved in the areas of card manufacture, operating systems developing and Smart Card design. Crownhill can supply Smart Cards incorporating microcontrollers from any of the major manufactures in the market place, e.g. Atmel, Microchip, Thompson, Siemens to name just a few, in addition Crownhill stock many "off the shelf" cards for applications ranging from door access, credit/debit cards, loyalty cards and electronic purse applications. Crownhill has developed its own exclusive OPEN ARCHITECTURE Smart Cards, allowing clients to develop their own unique operating systems. Crownhill have also developed the worlds first 1Mbyte GSM phase 2+ SIM card. Crownhill offer design services for both Smart Card manufacture and Smart Card operating systems.

Crownhill also have experience in the design of 125Kz and 13.5 Mhz contactless smart card systems, utilising cards, tags and self adhesive labels, and and supplies a range of readers writers and development systems.

Crownhill appreciate the difficulties involved in learning about the different types of Smart card systems, uses and applications. Crownhill supply several low cost full function Smart Card development systems covering virtually every type of card currently available including high security cards and Contactless Smart Cards.

Component Supply

Crownhill specialise in bringing you the latest Eprom, EEprom and Microcontroller devices at the very lowest prices! Crownhill use highly developed order consolidation techniques to pass on the massive discounts offered by manufacturers for bulk orders. Crownhill typically offer the 1000 off price for single component order...and it's much better than that for large orders!