Overview
Fixstars' FPGA development is a total development service that includes design and software-FPGA integration, premised on accelerating the entire system. By utilizing FPGAs while considering not only standalone FPGA performance but also efficient design across the whole system, we contribute to the value of the products you develop.
At Fixstars, FPGA engineers are required to acquire software knowledge and development skills at the same time. Our experts, who can develop while keeping the entire system in mind, build systems that deliver truly high performance for your products.
The Value Fixstars Delivers
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Realize high-speed, high-performance systems
We translate your high-level requirements into the key elements and constraints that make up an FPGA (compute cores suited to the use case, DDR interfaces, on-chip interconnects, real-time performance, and more) and propose the optimal hardware architecture.
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Push FPGAs to their limits through dense implementation
Drawing on our extensive track record of designs for high-speed use cases, we perform RTL-level tuning that pushes FPGA device performance to the absolute limit. By optimizing everything from logic design through placement and routing to fully exploit FPGA resources, we make it possible to deploy on less expensive FPGAs, contributing to lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).
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Support short-cycle FPGA development
A major challenge in FPGA development is that turn-around time (TAT) tends to be much longer than in software development. Fixstars has not only RTL design experts but also engineers well versed in High Level Synthesis (HLS) and compiler technologies. By bringing together this diverse expertise, we can shorten FPGA development cycles.
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Apply cutting-edge technology to drive innovation
To implement deep-learning algorithms, image processing, image recognition, and similar algorithms efficiently on FPGAs, we leverage the latest technologies that evolve day by day.
Characteristics of FPGA
Case Studies
Other Customer Challenges
FPGA tasks have grown complex and development is difficult.
We want to fully exploit FPGA hardware resources to maximize system performance.
We want better integration between software and FPGA.
We want to shorten our development cycle.
What We Offer
System Specification Design
Requirements interviews / performance analysis & investigation / system specification design
Software Development
Architecture design / detailed design / implementation & testing
FPGA Development
Specification study / RTL design / simulation / logic synthesis & place-and-route / on-device validation
System Validation
Integration testing / performance analysis & investigation / system testing
Supported Hardware
We work with FPGA cards from AMD (formerly Xilinx). We will propose the hardware best suited to your application and development approach.
FPGA Accelerator Solutions
FPGA-based accelerators, exemplified by AMD's (formerly Xilinx) ALVEO accelerator cards, can adapt quickly and flexibly to ever-changing acceleration requirements and algorithm standards, while delivering up to 90x performance improvement compared to CPU-based workload processing.
