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Advanced System Technologies (FPGA, SoC)

Hardware acceleration with low latency, high data throughput, and/or integrated sensors: We support you in idea development, find the appropriate technology (SoC, FPGA, MCU, CPLD, etc.), develop suitable algorithms, and design PCBs for prototype manufacturing and validation.

We offer innovative solutions in the development of integrated systems. Benefit from our experience in FPGA and System-on-Chip (SoC) design. These implementations are often characterized by performance requirements such as low latency or high data throughput, along with application-specific requirements. For cryptographic algorithms, the implementation must be specially protected, for example, against unauthorized access or side-channel attacks. Others require highly accurate timing via TDC (Time-to-Digital Converter), which can be directly integrated into an existing FPGA in the system. For hardware acceleration in AI applications, memory access is often crucial, and in video processing, creative algorithm development is required so that all processing steps can be computed directly in the data stream.

Do you have a product idea? Bring your ideas to us. We support you throughout the entire process, from idea development through feasibility studies, the development of initial functional models and prototypes, to product development. Together, we will find the right computing technologies for your product idea. This could be a System-on-Chip (SoC) or Adaptive SoC (ASoC), a traditional FPGA, a microcontroller-based system (MCU), a computing system with GPUs as accelerators, or a combination of these, such as a multi-processor system (Heterogeneous Computing), or other specialized hardware (e.g., CPLD, DSP, VPU, PPU, TPU, NPU).

Once the first functional model is ready, we will assist you with validation. We will then support you in further development for additional prototypes and provide comprehensive support for the final product development.

Our services

  • Support for companies in evaluating and implementing multiprocessor, SoC, and FPGA applications
  • Conducting studies to assess the feasibility of hardware acceleration solutions
  • Development, realization, and transfer of comprehensive edge computing solutions
  • Development and integration of cryptographic algorithms, including hardware acceleration and analysis of vulnerability to side-channel attacks
  • Integration of AI on MCU- and FPGA-based systems
  • Hardware acceleration in AI and stream-based video processing
  • Circuit design, simulation, and PCB creation
  • Integration of TDCs for high-precision timing measurement down to the picosecond range

Example projects

Your contacts

Prof. Dr. Paul Zbinden

IMES Institut für Mikroelektronik, Embedded Systems und Sensorik Professor für Mikroelektronik, Institutsleiter IMES

+41 58 257 45 84 paul.zbinden@ost.ch

Dorian Amiet

IMES Institut für Mikroelektronik, Embedded Systems und Sensorik Senior Research Engineer

+41 58 257 46 59 dorian.amiet@ost.ch