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About Highland
18 Otis Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
tel: 415 -551-1700
fax: 415 551-5129
Highland building
Highland engineers
Highland Technology designs and manufactures standard and custom precision electronic instruments. A California Corporation founded in 1984, Highland provides innovative, advanced instrumentation to assist our customers meet their technical goals. Our expertise includes precision analog measurement and signal generation, pulse and picosecond timing, photonics, and mixed-technology instrumentation of complex aerospace and scientific processes.

Highland's engineering designs are driven by detailed understanding of our customers' complex applications. All products conform to a rigorous standard of quality, documentation, and support. The company has in-house prototype development facilities, production manufacturing, and automated testing. We also work with trusted outside vendors for additional assembly and fabrication needs.
Specific areas of expertise include...
  • Precision analog measurement and control in VME and standalone formats.

  • Digital delay and pulse generators

  • High speed, picosecond-resolution timing instruments

  • High channel-count synchronized arbitrary waveform generation

  • Precision thermocouple and RTD temperature measurement /simulation

  • LVDT, tachometer, and load cell acquisition

  • Cryogenic temperature instrumentation

  • Inter-disciplinary instrumentation applications

  • Pulse-gradient drivers for NMR and MRI applications

  • Fiberoptic data links and timing distribution

In addition to standard products, Highland provides custom/OEM mixed-function controllers for laser controllers, high-speed cameras, radar testing, NMR and FTMS analytics, and many others. Highland provided the master timing system modules and beam modulators for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) fusion project, the world's largest laser.

https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nif

Some products for both specific and general customer applications are:

VARIAN, Inc NMR/MRI gradient drivers and temperature controllers
Pratt & Whitney Engine test and simulation instruments
Hamilton Sundstrand Aircraft power system measurement and simulation
National Ignition Facility Timing System, Beam Modulators, Diagnostics
CYMER MOPA Eximer laser controllers
SSAI Heads-up display controller for the C130
Andor ICCD camera controllers
Jefferson Labs/CEBAF Superconductive magnet and cavity controllers, cryogenic instrumentation
BAE Radar test modules
Lockheed Martin VME waveform generators
GE Turbine instrumentation
Boeing Arbitrary waveform generators
CERN Picosecond delay generation
Los Alamos National Lab Diagnostic timing
Textron Electro-optical links
United Airlines APU test cell instruments

phot of production floor
T346 waveform genmerator
J740 Fast O_E Converter
Highland Test facility
The company occupies a three-story, 15,000 square foot building in the SOMA neighborhood of San Francisco, convenient to multiple modes of transportation. The building, formerly the historic Lotus Fortune Cookie factory, was refurbished specifically to accommodate Highland's requirements.