Unleash the Future of FPGAs with Open-Source
Rapid Silicon’s first FPGA prototype chip is fully functional. See what this means for the upcoming Gemini products.
The Power of Open-Source and AI is Driving Today’s FPGA Disruption
Listen to Rapid Silicon’s CEO, Naveed Sherwani, talk about the power of open source and the semiconductor industry’s need for a new class of AI-driven application specific programmable logic devices.
Our Applications
We provide a wide variety of domain-specific FPGAs suited to diverse target applications, a variety of industry verticals, and multiple PPA needs.
Telecom
The telecom industry faces many design challenges due to rapidly evolving technology and standards. 5G deployments in multitude of use cases brings about a need to develop different equipment to address different needs.
FPGA technology plays a vital role in advancing new applications in telecom due to its high bandwidth, low-latency, and time to market advantages. Rapid Silicon’s solutions are ideally designed for data transmission and conversion, bridging protocols, and packet processing. They are optimally designed for wireless and wireline technologies such as remote radio heads, base stations, backhaul, routers, switches, and gateways.
Industrial
The Industry 4.0 revolution is unleashing a smarter, more connected world, and FPGA technology enables the high bandwidth and real-time processing requirements these applications demand at the edge.
The use of FPGAs is growing and expanding in new applications such as robotics, computer vision inspection, and predictive maintenance while continuing to maintain a key role in more traditional applications such as motor control and industrial networking. FPGAs’ flexibility allows a single board or system to be customized to accommodate many varying and machine-specific protocols to meet the end-user requirements.
Automotive
Autonomous driving and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) require complex compute and sensor fusion capabilities. Rapid Silicon’s FPGAs aggregate input from sensors and monitors using a variety of in-vehicle communication protocols that are optimized for ADAS applications.
Infotainment applications such as navigation systems, headrest-mounted displays, smartphone integration, in-vehicle Wi-Fi, and vehicle performance management and monitoring all benefit from the flexibility and re-programmability of FPGAs.
Data Processing
Data processing applications span a variety of industries and require high-performance parallel processing capabilities including data ingress and egress, signal processing, packet processing, video processing, compression and decompression, encryption, and more.
FPGAs are playing an increasingly important role in enabling these applications due to their performance, parallel processing, low latency, sophisticated networking and memory capabilities and flexibility. The array architecture of FPGAs, and the abundance of I/Os to pass data upstream or downstream efficiently, makes them ideal for the compute and data movement and processing for these applications.