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FPGA development services

FPGA development services in SystemVerilog and VHDL on AMD, Altera, Lattice and Microchip devices: RTL design, FPGA and ASIC verification, SoC FPGA systems, video and camera pipelines, packet processing and 5G logic, high-speed data acquisition and hardware acceleration for telecom, semiconductors, test and measurement, industrial, medical imaging, broadcast and automotive, with dedicated FPGA engineers for your team or projects delivered end to end.

What we build with FPGA

  • RTL design

    Synthesisable SystemVerilog and VHDL with clock-domain crossings, resets and timing constraints designed in from the start, and timing closed in Vivado, Quartus Prime, Radiant or Libero SoC.

  • Design verification

    Self-checking testbenches in UVM or cocotb with functional coverage, simulation in Questa, Riviera-PRO, Verilator or GHDL, and formal property checks with SymbiYosys or Jasper on the blocks where a missed corner case would be expensive.

  • SoC FPGA systems

    Zynq UltraScale+, Versal, Agilex and PolarFire SoC designs where the logic and the processor cores share the work: AXI interfaces in the fabric, Linux drivers and a Yocto image on the processor side.

  • Video and camera pipelines

    MIPI CSI-2, HDMI, 12G-SDI and SMPTE ST 2110 capture and output, image signal processing, scaling and compression in logic, for machine vision, medical imaging, broadcast equipment and driver-assistance cameras.

  • Packet processing and 5G logic

    Ethernet from 10 to 400 Gigabit, packet parsing and filtering, IEEE 1588 timing and Time-Sensitive Networking, and O-RAN fronthaul and 5G signal processing for switches, timing equipment and radio units.

  • High-speed data acquisition

    JESD204B and JESD204C converter interfaces, DMA into DDR4 or DDR5 memory and PCIe or 100 Gigabit Ethernet out to the host, for test and measurement instruments, medical imaging and industrial sensing.

  • ASIC prototyping and IP cores

    ASIC and SoC designs prototyped on FPGA boards so firmware and drivers can start before silicon, and reusable IP cores delivered with a register map, a testbench and documentation.

  • Algorithms in fabric

    Filters, FFTs, motor and power control loops and compute kernels moved from C++, MATLAB or Python into logic, by hand in RTL or through Vitis HLS, and checked bit for bit against the original model.

  • Hardware acceleration and low latency

    Compute offload on AMD Alveo and Versal accelerator cards and Altera Agilex boards, and market-data feed handlers and order gateways in logic for trading systems, with latency measured in nanoseconds on the wire.

Hire FPGA engineers

  • Dedicated FPGA engineers

    FPGA engineers who join your team full time, work in your repositories, tracker and meetings, and report to your lead. You interview them; we carry the Ukrainian contract, payroll, invoicing and leave.

  • FPGA project delivery

    A team that takes the FPGA project from scope to release: estimate, build, tests and deployment, with a technical lead on our side who owns the plan and the quality.

  • FPGA support and take-overs

    An existing FPGA system taken over from another team or kept running: a read-only review and a written list of risks first, then fixes and new features in order of impact.

The dedicated team page explains how specialists join your team, and the outsourcing page covers project delivery, take-overs and how we charge.

Who works on your FPGA project

  • FPGA engineers

    RTL design, timing closure and board bring-up

  • Verification engineers

    UVM, cocotb and formal checks for FPGA and ASIC

  • Embedded software engineers

    Linux drivers and software on SoC FPGAs

  • Hardware engineers

    The board, its power and its high-speed interfaces

  • Python engineers

    Reference models and test automation

How we work on FPGA designs

Verification is planned with the design, not after it: every block has a testbench before it is integrated, regressions run in the pipeline on every commit, and timing, utilisation and synthesis warnings are tracked per build, so a design that used to close timing and no longer does is caught the day it changes. Vendor tool versions are pinned per project and the whole build runs from Tcl scripts in source control, not from a project file that only one workstation can open.

Hardware reaches the engineer in one of two ways: development kits and prototype boards are sent to them, or they work on a rack in your lab through remote power switching, a debug probe and a serial console over your VPN. Either way the build runs in your pipeline and the code lives in your repositories.

Other embedded and hardware services

Embedded and hardware overview

Questions about FPGA development

Which FPGA devices and tools do you work with?

AMD Artix, Kintex, Virtex, Zynq and Versal in Vivado and Vitis; Altera Cyclone, Arria, Stratix and Agilex in Quartus Prime; Lattice Nexus and Avant in Radiant; Microchip PolarFire in Libero SoC; and open-source flows with Yosys and nextpnr. The work can be a new design, an extension of an existing one, verification on its own, or a move to a current device family.

Which industries do your FPGA engineers work in?

Telecom and networking, in switches, timing equipment and 5G radio units; semiconductors, in ASIC verification and FPGA prototyping; test and measurement, in oscilloscopes, analysers and data acquisition systems; industrial automation and machine vision; medical imaging, in ultrasound, X-ray and endoscopy equipment; broadcast and professional video; automotive, in camera and sensor processing for driver assistance; and finance, in low-latency trading.

Can you move our design to a current FPGA family?

Yes. Designs still built in ISE for Spartan-6 or Virtex-6, or in old Quartus releases for Cyclone IV, are moved to current devices and tools: vendor IP replaced with its current equivalent, constraints rewritten, and the old and new designs run against the same testbench until they agree.

How quickly can FPGA engineers start?

When the right FPGA engineer is available, the start is gated only by your interview and the NDA and IP assignment. Otherwise we run a search, which typically produces candidate profiles within two to three weeks, and nobody starts until you have said yes.

How do we hire FPGA engineers through BigTree108?

Tell us the work, the seniority and the hours you need. We propose one or two people with their profiles, you interview them the way you would interview your own hire, and you sign one agreement with BIG TREE 108 LLC and receive one invoice a month.

Who owns the work they produce?

You do. Every specialist has a signed contract with BigTree108 that assigns all work product to the company, and our agreement with you assigns it onward. Code, designs and documents are delivered into your own repositories and tools, not kept where only we can change them.

Working on an FPGA design?

Tell us the device, the interfaces and the throughput the design has to reach. You get an answer within one business day: candidate profiles, a plan for the design, or a recommendation on the device.

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