Research, design, manufacture
Edgewave covers the full engineering lifecycle — from research, modelling and simulation at one end to small-scale manufacture at the other, and every stage in between. We’re as happy taking on a focused research or feasibility study as we are running a small production batch. Engage us for a single specialist piece, or for an entire programme.
FPGA & HDL Design
Production-grade digital design for real-time and signal-intensive applications. We design, implement and rigorously verify custom logic — and we treat verification as a first-class deliverable, not an afterthought.
- VHDL and Verilog, AMD/Xilinx, Intel/Altera and Lattice devices
- Real-time video, image and signal-processing pipelines
- AXI4 and AXI4-Stream interfaces and custom IP
- DSP and maths in the fabric (fixed-point, pipelined arithmetic)
- Verification with cocotb and OSVVM, with reproducible testbenches
- Toolchain: Vivado, Vitis and standalone/FreeRTOS BSPs
Embedded Software, Firmware & Linux
Reliable software that gets hardware working and keeps it working — from bare-metal firmware on a microcontroller through to a full embedded Linux platform on application-class silicon.
- C and C++, bare-metal and RTOS (e.g. FreeRTOS)
- ARM Cortex-M (STM32 and others), board bring-up and debugging
- Embedded Linux: application development, kernel and device-driver work
- Board support, OS image build, integration and deployment (Yocto and similar)
- Device drivers, peripheral integration and motor control
- Communications: UART, SPI, I²C, USB and networked/connected modules
- Robust, field-ready architecture informed by real deployment experience
DSP & Signal Processing
Turning signal-processing algorithms into something that runs in real time on small, power-constrained hardware — a core specialism, applied across markets from video and audio to industrial sensing.
- Video, image and audio processing
- Spatial and immersive audio processing
- Fixed-point implementation and Q-format design
- Adaptive algorithms, detection and measurement
- Algorithm-to-hardware: from model to FPGA or embedded target
Hardware Design & Electronics
The board beneath the firmware — designed for the signals it has to carry and the environment it has to survive.
- Schematic capture and PCB design
- Mixed-signal and sensor/instrumentation front-ends
- Signal integrity and power design, optimised for low-power operation
- Complex HDI, high layer count and fine-pitch BGA design
- Design with manufacture and test in mind from day one
High-Speed Serial & Transceivers
High-speed serial links are where hardware, firmware and software meet — and where projects most often run into trouble. We work across all three, taking a fast interface from board-level signal integrity, through transceiver bring-up, to the protocol logic and drivers that sit on top.
- PCI Express (PCIe) endpoint, DMA and link bring-up
- 1G and 10G Ethernet
- 12G-SDI and high-bitrate video transport
- Custom and proprietary transport-layer designs
- FPGA transceiver (SerDes / GT) configuration, bring-up and tuning
- The full link end to end: signal integrity, protocol logic and host drivers
Product Development
The work that turns a working prototype into something you can sell — the mechanical and design-for-manufacture side.
- Mechanical and enclosure design in Fusion 360
- Folded sheet metal or CNC milled parts
- Thermoformed and moulded plastic parts
- Sealing and ingress protection for real-world environments
- Design for manufacture and supplier selection
- NPI, Manufacturing test, QA and inventory processes
- Prototyping (3D print / SLS) through to production tooling
- Design for EMC Compliance and “CE Mark” Testing
Manufacturing & Production
A design is only useful once it exists as a product. Edgewave supports manufacture at both ends of the scale — building in-house where volumes are low or the work is sensitive, and sourcing and managing external partners when it needs to scale.
In house, small-scale manufacture
- Component procurement and supply
- Unit assembly and build
- Manufacturing test and inspection
- Low-volume production runs
Managed subcontract manufacture
- Sourcing and qualifying contract manufacturers and assembly partners
- Managing outsourced manufacture, assembly and supply on your behalf
- Production oversight, quality management and supply-chain coordination