Sparx Engineering is a full-service product development company that offers comprehensive engineering services, from concept to prototyping to production-ready design. They have a proven team of electrical, software, and mechanical engineers, as well as an industrial design team and a full wet chemistry laboratory on site. Sparx works with customers in all phases, from one-man startups to large companies, and across various industries, including medical, oil and gas, aerospace, defense, automation, energy, consumer products, fitness, and pharmaceuticals.

The core Sparx team has been delivering solutions together since leaving NASA contract work in 2010. They now have offices in Houston and Dallas, employing more than 50 engineers, scientists, and support staff, and 18 licensed engineers covering 7 engineering disciplines in Texas. Their broad expertise and experience enable them to deliver results to industries across the board.

Sparx is a scalable team of expert engineers with a portfolio of successful designs and satisfied customers. They understand the complex regulatory environment and the need to protect intellectual property, especially in industries such as medicine and aerospace.

Founded over 15 years ago by NASA engineers, Sparx Engineering is now a leading engineering services company that delivers custom hardware and firmware designs built on ST processors and components. They bring an experienced team of electrical, software, and mechanical engineers, as well as the latest tools and technologies, to provide effective solutions to their customers' problems. Their services include, but are not limited to:

• Custom PCB design using ST processors and components
• Custom firmware and software.
• Support and update of existing designs
• Mechanical design and analysis
• Automation and control systems
• Rapid prototyping
• Certification to military / aerospace / medical / regulatory standards
• Custom test fixtures
• Machine vision

Sparx offers expertise across multiple technologies and industries:

• Wireless communication including BLE, WiFi, Zigbee, LoRa and cellular 
• Harsh environments like space, oil field, or military applications
• Numerous communication protocols such as CAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, Modbus, Hart, USB, 1553, RS-232/422/485 and many proprietary serial protocols.
• In house industrial designers
• High voltage control and distribution
• Motion control from precisely metering microliters of fluid to 15 kilowatt induction motors.
• Control systems integrating all types of sensors and actuators
• Robotic applications in agriculture, pharmaceutical, and energy sectors.
• Machine vision and learning algorithms for object identification and sorting 

Sparx Engineering in STMicroelectronics ecosystem

ST and Sparx Engineering have complementary business models that can work together to benefit both companies and their customers. ST's business is centered around selling electrical components, while Sparx's business is focused on creating successful products for their customers using those components.