NetTimeLogic GmbH - Services Embedded Software

FPGAs and CPUs come closer nowadays. Today often CPUs and FPGAs are combined in the same chip, either as a softcore CPU (NIOS II or Microblaze) or as a hard CPU like an ARM (AMD Zynq or Intel CycloneSoC). The trend is that in the future also PC or especially Server CPUs contain an FPGA fabric to accelerate specific tasks. Therefore, more and more interaction between Software and FPGAs is required. With our embedded software services, we focus on software interacting in one or the other way with an FPGA. This can be software running on a softcore CPU or on one of the hard CPUs in an combined chip, protocol stack development, driver development for FPGA IP cores, hardware acceleration of software parts, linking the FPGA based system with a host CPU or data representation GUIs, to just give a couple of examples. But we definitely don't stop there; we do any kind of embedded software, from tiny software parts that runs on a MCU to large and complex software solution running on high-end/high-performance CPUs. With our experience and know how we are able to cope with even the most complex designs. We set the focus in our development on modularity, reusability and testability which in the end often leads to simplicity even if the design is very large and in itself complex. This allows us to use the same development flow for simple and very complex designs. Whenever possible and useful we try to run Embedded Linux on the target systems to have maximum flexibility and reusability of the developed software components.

We use source control, ticketing and automated build systems to keep track of the development and simplify the development flow.

We can help you in every step of embedded software development: from simple modules and drivers to complete solutions:

Design, Concept and Architecture of your system
Implementation of units
Implementation of unit tests
Operating system porting (Linux)
Linux driver development
Server/Client Network applications (TCP/IP, UDP/IP or Raw)
Low level applications without OS
Network stacks
Host applications on Windows and Linux
Software for hardware test platforms
GUIs in QT
Debugging on hardware
Regression testing
Deployment and continuous integration
Maintenance
Education
And much more ...

We have experience in a wide area of embedded software designs, this is just a short summary of the most recent designs we worked on:

GUI for a PTP and PPS measuring device
GUI for configuration and status supervision => see also tools tab
Communication library
Adaptations for compliance of a PTP stack (PPSi)
Porting of protocol stacks (PTP4l, PTPd)
Data aquisition system
PHC (PTP hardware clock) driver for Linux
Framebuffer (Display) driver for Linux
Ethernet (MAC) driver for Linux
PCIe driver for Linux
User interface driver for Linux
Multiple character device drivers (SPI, I2C, etc) for Linux
Power management driver for Linux
Linux porting to Xilinx and Altera ARM/FPGA system on chips
Host to FPGA data exchange solution via Ethernet and UART
Protocol stack for communication on Windows, Linux and "Bare metal"
Windows configuration Tool for NetTimeLogic IP cores
"Bare metal" applications on softcore CPUs and ARM/FPGA system on chips
Hardware test platform software for stimuli parsing and log generating
And much more ...

NetTimeLogic GmbH - Services Embedded Software

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