PCB DESIGN SERVICES IN LOS ANGELES

Yes. Calpak USA performs schematic capture, PCB layout, fabrication, assembly, and test from our single facility in Hawthorne, California. This co-located model means your design engineer and production engineer are in the same building, using the same tools, reviewing the same files. There is no handoff to a third-party assembler, no requalification between vendors, and no process delta between your prototype and production builds. For Los Angeles-area companies, this translates to faster iteration cycles and a single point of accountability from concept through delivered product.

Our primary design tool is Altium Designer for schematic capture and PCB layout. We also accept design files from KiCad, OrCAD, Eagle, and other major EDA platforms. If you have an existing design in another tool that needs modification or a redesign for manufacturability, we can import and work with your existing files. All deliverables — Gerbers, ODB++, assembly drawings, and pick-and-place files — are generated to industry-standard formats compatible with any fabricator or assembler.

Absolutely. Many of our Los Angeles-area customers bring completed schematics and hire Calpak USA for PCB layout, signal integrity analysis, and DFM optimization. Because we also manufacture in-house, our layout engineers design with direct knowledge of our assembly equipment and process capabilities — resulting in boards that are production-ready from the first revision. We can also review your schematic for potential issues before beginning layout.

When design and manufacturing happen in the same Hawthorne facility, the feedback loop that normally takes weeks between separate vendors happens in hours. A design change can go from schematic revision to assembled prototype in days. DFM issues are caught during design — not after fabrication. There is no vendor transition between prototype and production, so there is no requalification, no new NRE, and no process variation. For LA-based companies, in-person design reviews and same-day prototype pickup compress the schedule even further.

Yes. Calpak USA offers embedded firmware development as a natural extension of the hardware design workflow. Our firmware engineers develop for ARM Cortex-M platforms (STM32, NXP), ESP32, PIC, and AVR microcontrollers, with RTOS integration for real-time applications. Having firmware and hardware engineers in the same building eliminates the integration problems that plague teams split across multiple vendors — pin assignments, peripheral configurations, and timing constraints are resolved collaboratively during the design phase rather than discovered during integration testing.

Calpak USA designs PCBs for the full range of industries represented in the Los Angeles electronics ecosystem: aerospace and defense (flight-critical avionics, satellite subsystems, ITAR-controlled designs), medical devices (IPC Class 3 diagnostic and monitoring equipment), EV and clean energy (power conversion, battery management systems), robotics and automation (motor drives, sensor arrays, embedded control), and consumer and commercial electronics (IoT devices, connected products). Our Hawthorne, California facility has served LA-area companies across all of these sectors since 1978.