D3 Engineering (Malaysia)
Schematic Design Malaysia
D3 Engineering is a schematic design company based in Penang, Malaysia, capturing a product's electronics as a clean, reviewable circuit diagram — for hardware teams in Malaysia and worldwide.
What is Schematic Design Malaysia?
Schematic design is the process of capturing a circuit — power supplies, microcontrollers, sensors, connectors, and every net between them — as a structured diagram in an ECAD tool. It is the source of truth that PCB layout, the bill of materials, and manufacturing all derive from, so mistakes made here are far more expensive to fix once a board has been laid out and built.
What we deliver
- ✓ Schematic capture in Altium Designer, KiCad, Eagle/Fusion, or OrCAD
- ✓ Component selection against cost, availability, and lifecycle risk
- ✓ Power architecture and regulation design
- ✓ Bill of materials (BOM) preparation with approved alternates
- ✓ Design-for-manufacture (DFM) and design-for-test (DFT) review before layout
Typical engagements
- ✓ Capturing a new product's schematic from a block diagram or reference design
- ✓ Reworking an existing schematic to add an interface, sensor, or connector
- ✓ Replacing end-of-life or hard-to-source components on an existing board
- ✓ Reviewing a schematic from another design house or a prior revision before layout begins
Why Malaysia
Why work with an embedded engineering team based in Penang, Malaysia
Penang is one of Malaysia's longest-established electronics and semiconductor hubs, often called the "Silicon Valley of the East" — home to manufacturing and engineering operations for companies including Intel, Bosch, and AMD since the 1970s. D3 Engineering, part of D3 Innovation, draws on that same regional talent base and holds Malaysia Digital (MDEC) status.
Working from Penang in the GMT+8 timezone gives our team practical overlap with both Asia-Pacific and, at the edges of the working day, European and US teams. Combined with strong English-language engineering communication and cost-effective rates relative to US and EU consultancies, it is a practical base for global hardware and product teams to develop embedded software, firmware, RTOS, embedded Linux, and edge AI — without compromising on engineering quality.
D3 Engineering is the embedded software and firmware engineering division of D3 Innovation, an electronics manufacturing services company also based in Penang. That structure means engineering work can, where useful, sit close to manufacturing and hardware production rather than being handled by a purely offshore software vendor with no visibility into the physical product. Clients are based across Malaysia, Southeast Asia, and further afield in the US, Europe, and Australia, and typical engagements run from a short, well-scoped block of work through to an ongoing embedded team extension lasting multiple years.
FAQ
Questions about Schematic Design Malaysia
Which ECAD tools do you work in?
We work directly in Altium Designer, KiCad, Eagle/Fusion 360, and OrCAD, and can also work from a client's existing library and design rules.
Can you start from a reference design or evaluation board?
Yes — starting from a chipset vendor's reference design or an existing evaluation board is a common and efficient starting point for a new schematic.
Do you handle component sourcing and availability?
Yes, we select components against real-time availability and lifecycle status, and flag single-source or allocation-risk parts before they become a production problem.
Do you also do the PCB layout, or just the schematic?
We offer both as separate or combined engagements — many clients have us do the full schematic-to-layout handoff in-house so nothing is lost in translation between the two.