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How we help

Got a design working in the lab, but no clear path to a product? That’s where we help. We take research-grade FPGA designs and make them ready for the real world: silicon sized to the job, logic that’s verified, and hardware built for wherever it’s going.

Your team brings the algorithm; we turn it into logic that meets the size, weight, power and timing limits of a fielded system.

  • Pick the right chip

    We turn your requirements into DSP slices, block RAM, logic and transceivers, so you target a device that fits, with room to grow and no wasted silicon. Radiation-tolerant or unusual thermal limits? We design for them from day one.

  • New to FPGAs?

    We benchmark your workload and estimate what an FPGA would buy you, in throughput, latency, power, heat or security. Often the answer is a hybrid, with the hot spots moved into custom RTL accelerators.

  • Custom RTL or IP cores?

    IP can save months, or cost them when it doesn't quite fit. We'll walk you through the trade-offs in performance, resources, licensing and support, and write custom RTL where it earns its place.

  • Rescue a struggling design

    Won't meet timing, or won't fit? We find out why, get it working, and add the verification that keeps it working.

Examples of what we've built

High-speed data movement, active sensing and signal processing are where we're strongest. A few of the systems we've built, or helped design:

  • Radar

    Full custom radar systems, from the data converters to beam steering and signal processing.

  • Ultrasonic array inspection

    Array inspection systems that capture every sample: one streams A-scan data from 256+ sensors to SSD at a sustained 420+ MB/s.

  • LiDAR

    LiDAR systems, from the sensor front end to real-time processing on compact, rugged hardware.

  • Vision and object detection

    Real-time object detection running right in the FPGA fabric, including pedestrian detection for driver-assistance systems.

Our founders came out of a university research lab and hold doctorates and patents in emerging FPGA architectures. We understand FPGAs down to the silicon, and that research background means we understand the physics behind your system, not just the logic.

At a glance

Devices

AMD/Xilinx

  • Spartan
  • Artix
  • Virtex
  • Zynq
  • Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC
  • RFSoC
  • Versal

Intel/Altera

  • Cyclone
  • Stratix
High-speed transceivers and interfaces

Transceiver-based serial

  • PCIe Gen 2/3/4/5
  • 100G Ethernet
  • Aurora
  • JESD204B/C

Parallel and memory

  • LVDS
  • DDR3/4/5
  • LPDDR

On-chip buses

  • AXI3
  • AXI4
Signal processing

Digital filtering

  • FIR
  • IIR
  • Decimation
  • Interpolation

Frequency and phase

  • FFTs
  • Phase shifting
  • CORDIC
  • Digital mixing

Correlation and detection

  • Autocorrelation
  • Cross-correlation
  • Matched filtering
  • Pulse compression

I/Q processing

  • Quadrature processing
  • Complex arithmetic
  • Modulation and demodulation

Precision measurement

  • Time of flight
  • Phase estimation
  • Ranging
  • Doppler processing

High-performance DSP architecture

  • Pipelining
  • Parallel processing
  • Fixed-point optimization
Sensing and measurement
  • Radar and phased-array systems
  • Ultrasonic sensing and inspection
  • LiDAR and optical ranging
  • Time-of-flight measurement
  • Precision timing and synchronization
  • High-speed data acquisition
FPGA architecture and IP
  • Custom RTL and IP core development
  • High-speed interface integration
  • Hardware acceleration and pipelining
  • FPGA verification and system bring-up
  • PL/PS AXI to DDR DMA
Special requirements
  • Radiation-tolerant FPGA design
  • Space and defense applications
  • Low-latency, deterministic processing
  • High-reliability system design
  • Resource and power optimization
  • Secure boot and secure communications

All design services