FPGA architecture & RTL
Clean, synthesizable designs with clock-domain crossings handled properly and timing closed with margin. We plan resource and power budgets before the first line of code.
FPGA · Firmware · SoC design
Logic that meets timing.
Firmware that ships.
SoCSilicon designs FPGA gateware and embedded firmware for systems where latency, reliability and certification matter. We take projects from architecture through RTL, verification and board bring-up, for aerospace, automotive, trading and manufacturing clients across the US.
Services
From block diagram to working hardware
Bring us in for a full design, a single subsystem, or the hard part your team is stuck on. We write the RTL, the firmware that drives it, and the tests that prove it works.
Embedded firmware
Bare-metal, RTOS and embedded Linux on soft and hard processors. Drivers, bootloaders and device trees that match the hardware they run on.
Verification
Testbenches that find bugs before the lab does. Constrained-random, coverage-driven and formal methods, sized to what the project actually needs.
High-speed interfaces
Serial transceivers, memory controllers and host links integrated and tested on real boards, including eye scans and link margin checks.
DSP & hardware acceleration
Filters, FFTs, image pipelines and custom compute moved from software into fabric. Fixed-point models are bit-matched against a reference before we build.
Board bring-up & debug
First power-on through a stable build. We work with integrated logic analyzers and lab instruments to track down problems in hardware, firmware or the boundary between them.
Industries
Each field has its own constraints
We design to the requirement that matters most in your domain, whether that is a certification process, a latency budget or a production line that can't stop.
Aerospace & defense
Flight and payload electronics built for design-assurance processes, with fault mitigation for radiation environments and full requirements traceability.
- process
- DO-254 design assurance
- mitigation
- TMR, SEU scrubbing, ECC
- interfaces
- MIL-STD-1553, SpaceWire, ARINC 429
Automotive
Sensor fusion, camera and radar front ends, and in-vehicle networking, developed with functional-safety practices from the start.
- process
- ISO 26262 functional safety
- sensors
- MIPI CSI-2, radar ADC capture
- networks
- CAN FD, Automotive Ethernet
Trading & finance
Market-data feed handlers, order gateways and pre-trade risk checks in hardware, where every clock cycle between the wire and the order counts.
- budget
- Tick-to-trade measured in nanoseconds
- network
- 10/25 GbE, low-latency MAC/PCS
- host
- PCIe DMA, kernel bypass
Manufacturing & industrial
Deterministic motion control, machine vision and industrial networking for equipment that has to run every shift without surprises.
- control
- Motor control, encoder interfaces
- vision
- Camera Link, GigE Vision pipelines
- networks
- EtherCAT, PROFINET, TSN
We also work on test & measurement, communications, medical devices and research instrumentation. If your system has an FPGA in it, we'd like to hear about it.
Recognition
Flight-proven engineering
Our founder's work on NASA JPL programs, including the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, has been recognized with the following awards.
- 2026
NASA JPL Team Award
Mars Helicopter Operation
- 2026
NASA JPL Team Award
Snapdragon Hardware Development
- 2023
Milton Caniff Spirit of Flight Award
Presented by the Academy of Model Aeronautics to NASA's Mars Helicopter Team. Read the announcement
- 2022
JPL Mars 2020 Team Award
Software Quality Assurance
Process
How an engagement runs
Five stages, each with a clear deliverable. You see progress in working builds and test results, not slide decks.
- S0
Scope
We review requirements, interfaces and constraints, then agree on deliverables, milestones and a fixed or time-and-materials estimate.
- S1
Architecture
Block diagrams, clocking plan, resource and power estimates, and device selection if it hasn't been made yet.
- S2
Design
RTL and firmware developed in your repository with regular reviews, so your team knows the code as well as we do.
- S3
Verify
Simulation, coverage and hardware-in-the-loop testing against the requirements agreed in S0.
- S4
Bring-up & handoff
Integration on your hardware, documentation and a walkthrough. You own all source, constraints and test assets.
Platforms
Tools and devices we work with
We work in the vendor toolchains your team already uses and fit into your existing build and CI setup.
- AMD / Xilinx
- Vivado, Vitis · Artix, Kintex, Zynq-7000, Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC & RFSoC, Versal
- Intel / Altera
- Quartus Prime · Cyclone, Arria, Stratix, Agilex
- Lattice
- Radiant, Diamond · ECP5, CertusPro-NX, iCE40
- Microchip
- Libero SoC · PolarFire, PolarFire SoC, RTG4
- Simulation
- Questa, Xcelium, Verilator, GHDL
- Workflow
- Git, Tcl build scripts, GitLab / GitHub CI, Docker
Contact
Tell us what you're building
Email a short description of the system, the FPGA or processor if you know it, and your timeline. We reply within one business day.
Based in the United States. We work with clients nationwide, on site or remote.