Our work

Radar and SDR are at the core of our defense and space work: full custom Ka- and Ku-band radar systems, from the data converters through signal processing, beamforming and beam steering, on FPGA and RFSoC platforms. Where the mission calls for it, we design for radiation from the start, in the parts we choose and in how we architect the RTL and firmware. Our hardware has flown in orbit, and for a major defense contractor we engineered a system that welds fiber optic cables together deep under water. We don’t publish program details, and we protect yours the same way.

For a Fortune 500 company we engineered an ultrasonic pipeline inspection tool from first concept to production launch, doing all of it: the hardware design, the RTL and the firmware. It captures A-scan data from more than 256 ultrasonic sensors and streams it to SSD at a sustained 420+ MB/s, with about 1,260 MB/s of DDR throughput behind it. It runs for more than five hours on battery, records over 7 TB in a single capture, and works from −20 °C to 120 °C, all in a package about the size of a tomato paste can. Ultrasonics was one of our earliest fields, so we understand the physics behind the signal, not just the data path.

A Tier 1 automotive supplier brought us in with a fault in their existing design that their customer needed fixed fast. We traced it to FPGA buffers that were underflowing because the DMA controller was starving them of DDR memory bandwidth, then fixed it and handed them a solution to take back to their customer. We went on to design and optimize their real-time pedestrian detection in FPGA fabric, reworking the architecture to cut BRAM usage by more than 25%. That freed enough room for them to roll out their next-generation system, with a host of new features, on the existing hardware.

We built AI-enabled mini-UAVs with thermal and optical sensors that inspect greenhouses on their own, spotting structural defects and operating problems in real time. We’ve also built controllers for high-tech mobile manufacturing machines, and for an autonomous-vehicle startup we consolidated several boards into a single compact, high-precision LiDAR board.

We developed an FPGA-based ATSC 3.0 bootstrap detection subsystem, from the detection algorithm to its VHDL implementation. We also design high-speed links such as PCIe, JESD204 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet into FPGA systems.

This is where we started: FPGA-based control, signal processing and precision feedback for atomic force microscopes. Today we help research teams turn a measurement idea into an instrument that works in real time, and a one-off lab setup into something that can be built, sold and supported.