FPGA Controls provides custom FPGA-based hardware and firmware that deliver deterministic sensor interfaces, synchronized acquisition, and on‑chip protection for laboratory, robotics, industrial, and medical applications. The company supplies complete design packages—including schematics, HDL source, and verification tools—and offers IP licensing for OEM integration, enabling rapid deployment without in‑house FPGA expertise.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
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Problem
Engineers developing sensor‑driven systems often rely on off‑the‑shelf microcontrollers or generic FPGA boards that lack deterministic timing, synchronized acquisition, and built‑in protection logic. This leads to integration overhead, inconsistent measurement repeatability, and reduced reliability in lab equipment, robotics, industrial machines, and medical devices.
Solution
FPGA Controls delivers custom FPGA‑based electronics that provide precise, deterministic sensor interfaces and real‑time signal‑processing pipelines tailored to the target application. Their design flow incorporates hardware‑level timing guarantees, trigger‑synchronized capture, and on‑chip fault‑protection to ensure repeatable measurements and stable control loops. Clients receive a complete hardware package—schematics, HDL source, and firmware—plus integration support, enabling rapid deployment without extensive in‑house FPGA expertise. The solution scales across domains, from high‑precision laboratory instruments to latency‑critical mobile robots and safety‑critical medical devices. FPGA Controls also offers licensing of the engineered IP, allowing OEMs to embed the functionality directly into their product lines.
Target Audience
Primary customers are OEMs and system integrators developing laboratory instrumentation, autonomous mobile robots, industrial automation equipment, and regulated medical devices that require deterministic sensor data paths and embedded control.
Features
- Full‑custom HDL development targeting Xilinx/Intel FPGA families with deterministic clock domains and sub‑nanosecond latency guarantees
- Integrated trigger and timestamp modules for synchronized, repeatable sensor acquisition across multiple channels
- On‑chip DSP blocks (FIR/IIR filters, FFT, decimation) configured for real‑time signal conditioning and feature extraction
- Built‑in protection logic (over‑current, watchdog, fault isolation) to safeguard downstream hardware and maintain system uptime
- Modular IP library (sensor adapters, communication stacks, safety monitors) that can be reused across lab, robotics, industrial, and medical projects
- Comprehensive verification suite (simulation, hardware‑in‑the‑loop, timing analysis) delivered with the design package
- Engineering services covering architecture definition, board layout, firmware integration, and post‑silicon validation
- Licensing model that provides source‑level IP and optional maintenance updates for seamless OEM integration