Electronics engineered
from idea to production.

We will

• Define the product structure and select the optimal components.
• Design schematics around the chosen SoC and FPGA, lay out the PCB, select power components and the cooling solution, and fit everything to your chassis.
• Choose the best-suited FPGA based on data rates, the available CPU/SoC interfaces (PCIe, DP, SPI, I²C…), memory bandwidth, processing performance and price.
• Design the FPGA top level, reuse third-party or create proprietary IP cores, and adapt Linux or Android. Anything the CPU or SoC can’t do is implemented in the FPGA.
• Recommend and adapt the operating system, and write all software and firmware for manufacturing, testing and end users.
• Develop device drivers and adapt or write the boot loader.
• Build trusted-OS components (Trusty, TLK, OpenTEE) and secure tasks, plus a web service for secure updates and product licensing.

Track record

• FPGA-based professional video equipment and FPGA-accelerated boards, from architecture to production.
• Camera and image-sensor products, telecom systems and low-latency trading hardware.
• High-speed digital design, system and hardware architecture, done by the same engineers who write the RTL and the drivers.

Platforms we know

• ARM SoCs: NVIDIA Tegra, Samsung Exynos, STM32, ESP32, NXP/Freescale, Atmel and more.
• Intel CPUs and FPGA soft CPUs such as Nios.
• Two proprietary CPU architectures of our own, designed for optimal FPGA implementation.

From the ground up

• Material selection, stack-up design and constraint preparation.
• Boards built around large BGA devices with a huge number of signals, high power draw and impedance-controlled high-speed interfaces.
• Design for manufacturing, and close work with the factory for samples and mass production.
• Sample assembly, board bring-up and testing.

We can

• Capture schematics and lay out boards in Mentor Graphics tools.
• Lay out DDRx memory — modules or discrete chips.
• Route high-speed interfaces: PCIe, Vx1, USB 3, Ethernet SGMII, SDI, SATA, HDMI, DisplayPort and more.
• Deliver designs with signal rates above 10 Gbps.
• Lay out high-power blocks such as FPGA and SoC core power planes.
• Manage voltage drop on high-current rails and optimise heat spreading.
• Design low-noise rails for PLLs and analog blocks, with separate grounds.

FPGA families

• AMD Xilinx — Zynq UltraScale+ (MPSoC, RFSoC), Zynq-7000, Virtex, Kintex, Artix.
• Intel / Altera — MAX, Cyclone, Arria, Stratix, Agilex.
• Lattice — CrossLink-NX, CertusPro-NX.
• CPLDs, and SoC FPGAs with embedded ARM cores.

IP cores we have developed

• Video codecs — IEC 61834 (DV), JPEG, H.262 (ISO 13818), H.264 (ISO 14496), H.265, H.266, AV1, wavelet.
• Data interfaces — PCI Express, USB host/device, SDHCI (SD card, SDIO, MMC), SATA, SPI, QSPI, I²C master/slave.
• Video interfaces — IEEE 1394 (DV), SDI, HDMI, DisplayPort sink and source.
• Panel and camera interfaces — MIPI DSI/CSI, SLVS and SLVS-EC, Vx1, LVDS.
• Memory interfaces — DDR, DDR2, DDR3, DDR4, HyperRAM.
• Image processing — polyphase non-linear scaler, 2D blitter, 2D vector graphics, colour-space converter, LUTs including 3D-LUT, display controller, de-Bayer, de-noiser, geometry transform.
• Professional video — SDI, SMPTE ST 2110 (including ST 2110-22), all-digital genlock, AES/EBU and S/PDIF audio.
• Cryptography — DES and AES ciphers; SHA-2, BLAKE, Skein, Keccak, ECHO, JH, Grøstl block hashes; Lyra2 and Argon password hashes.
• Math — Fermat primality test with Montgomery multiplication.
• Error correction — Reed–Solomon and Viterbi.
• Modulation — QAM, QPSK, OFDM, convolution, clock recovery.
• A proprietary security solution for product updates, licensing and manufacturing.
• High-frequency trading — low-latency algorithms in hardware.

High-speed experience

• High-speed memory interfaces including DDR3 and DDR4, on chips and modules.
• Multi-gigabit links on dedicated transceivers — PCIe, SATA, Ethernet SGMII, SDI, HDMI, DP, Vx1 — and a proprietary protocol for board-to-board communication.
• Logic synthesis, timing closure and low-power design with Vivado and other vendor tools, simulation, and scripting for project management and IP-core configuration.
• Track record from EP610/EP910 and Xilinx XC3000 to today’s UltraScale+, Agilex and Stratix 10.

Operating systems

• Linux kernel ports to new platforms and device drivers.
• Proprietary boot loaders or adapted U-Boot; software for device programming, JTAG testing and secure protection.
• ARM TEE (Trusted Execution Environment): Trusty, TLK and OpenTEE.
• Android AOSP adapted to your product.
• PHP/MySQL web services for secure software updates, licensing and manufacturing.
• Our own OS (early 2000s) with virtual memory, multithreading, a full driver stack, file systems and network protocols — used in several commercial devices — plus a tiny real-time OS for time-critical work.
• Bare-metal firmware and RTOS, including ThreadX.

Algorithms

• Image-processing firmware for Intel SSE, ARM NEON, DSPs including VLIW (CEVA), and GPUs with CUDA and Metal.
• Image compression — JPEG, JPEG XL, JPEG XS, JPEG 2000 and HTJ2K, H.26x, AV1 — and audio compression.
• Signal processing, image-sensor pipelines and neural-network acceleration.
• C, C++ and assembler (including ARM) tuned with per-instruction cycle counts for the most efficient instruction flow.

Crypto

• P2P networks and blockchain.
• Block and password hashes, DES/AES ciphers, elliptic-curve digital signatures, prime numbers and modular arithmetic.