At AllStack AI, we deliver end-to-end expertise across the complete SoC FPGA design spectrum, addressing the full complexity of modern heterogeneous systems. We leverage modern AI tools and methodologies to accelerate HDL coding, synthesis exploration, and design optimization, reducing development cycles while improving quality. This approach brings AI-native capabilities to FPGA development, enabling faster prototyping and iteration without sacrificing the hardware specialization that FPGA solutions demand. Our approach combines deep hardware-software co-design methodology with AI-accelerated development practices, enabling clients to navigate the critical decisions that determine system performance, power efficiency, and time-to-market.
By addressing each stage systematically—from architecture to verification—we enable organizations to compress development timelines, reduce risk, and deliver SoC FPGA products that meet rigorous performance and reliability standards in demanding markets.
FPGA IP Core Design Service
FPGA IP cores sit at the heart of modern digital subsystems, and the right custom core often determines whether a complex data processing system meets its performance and reliability goals. In many advanced platforms, the FPGA is a critical co‑processor inside a larger compute architecture, offloading data‑intensive and latency‑sensitive workloads from CPUs or SoCs. This makes the design quality of its key IP cores directly visible at the system level, from throughput and latency to power and long‑term maintainability. Most FPGA designs are built around one or a few central IP cores that implement 90% of the system’s data path logic, such as packet processing, signal conditioning, or custom accelerators. Developing these cores is a long‑term investment: high‑performance IP requires careful micro‑architecture, implementation, and verification, which consumes significant engineering time and budget.
Our FPGA design service focuses exclusively on custom FPGA IP core design and verification tailored to your target device, interfaces, and performance requirements. The team can architect and implement IP that integrates cleanly into existing subsystems and flows, whether you need a new accelerator, protocol block, or a replacement for off‑the‑shelf IP that no longer fits your roadmap. Every custom IP core is delivered with rigorous functional testing, including self‑checking testbenches and simulation scenarios that exercise normal operating conditions and key corner behaviors. This helps ensure the core runs smoothly in your target environment, reducing bring‑up risk and shortening the path from bitstream generation to stable system operation.
FPGA IP Core Verification Service
A thoroughly verified FPGA IP core that has passed marginal test scenarios reduces the likelihood of field failures, recalls, and costly warranty claims that can damage reputation and erode customer trust. Moreover, well-verified cores enable faster regulatory submissions and shorter certification timelines, accelerating time-to-market in highly competitive domains. Perhaps most importantly, a mature, stable IP core becomes an asset that can be reused across multiple product generations and variants, reducing future development cycles and lowering incremental design costs. Organizations that invest in rigorous IP verification early see measurable returns through higher design quality, fewer post-production surprises, and the ability to take on more contracts because development cycles are shortened and reliability is proven.
For applications with strict uptime or safety expectations, an extended IP verification option is available where the core is stressed with comprehensive marginal test cases beyond nominal conditions. These campaigns are designed to expose rare timing, protocol, and integration issues early, so your deployed systems benefit from a higher degree of robustness and stability over their full lifecycle.
SW Driver & Application Design Service
Custom-designed FPGA IP cores represent only half of a high-performance SoC FPGA system; the other half is the software ecosystem that brings that hardware to life. Our embedded software design service focuses on bridging the critical gap between FPGA logic and application-level functionality through professional-grade device drivers and optimized application frameworks.
A well-architected device driver acts as a hardware abstraction layer, insulating application software from the complexities of the underlying FPGA IP core's register maps, timing interfaces, and control sequences. Without proper driver design, even the highest-quality IP core becomes difficult to integrate and operate reliably in the broader system context. Our driver development approach establishes clean, standardized interfaces that allow higher-level software layers to interact with the FPGA IP through intuitive APIs, regardless of the IP's internal architectural complexity. This abstraction is critical for platform scalability: as the system evolves or the IP core is updated, the driver can manage version compatibility and present a consistent interface to application code.
Beyond drivers, optimized application software determines whether the FPGA IP core and its driver realize their full performance potential. Application engineers must understand the data flow characteristics of the IP core—its throughput, latency, and buffer management requirements—to orchestrate efficient data movement through the system, minimize idle cycles, and exploit parallelism between CPU and FPGA operations. Techniques such as direct memory access (DMA) configuration, interrupt prioritization, and intelligent task scheduling ensure that the FPGA accelerator and the processor work in concert rather than creating bottlenecks.
Our team develops production-grade embedded software, device drivers, and application frameworks that enable seamless interaction between processor cores and FPGA accelerators. This includes real-time kernel integration, interrupt handling, and inter-device communication protocols.
System Architecture Design Service
We architect the optimal hardware-software split by analyzing algorithmic requirements, performance constraints, and flexibility needs. Through systematic co-design methodology, we determine which operations execute efficiently in FPGA fabric for parallel processing and low latency, while allocating control-flow and adaptive logic to embedded software. This partitioning directly impacts power consumption, response time, and system scalability.
We also develop detailed microarchitectures that effectively integrate vendor-provided IP cores with custom logic, ensuring compatibility, timing closure, and resource optimization. This phase establishes the foundation for synthesis, timing analysis, and verification, addressing the performance and area constraints critical to competitive product development.
Consultation & Support
The journey from custom FPGA IP core design to stable product deployment does not end at bitstream delivery. Our consultation and support services ensure that custom IP cores integrate smoothly into target systems and continue to perform reliably throughout their operational lifecycle.
Integrated support is included as part of all IP core design engagements, providing hands-on assistance during the critical system integration phase. Our team works directly with your hardware and software engineering groups to configure the IP core within your target platform, validate register interfaces, optimize data flow paths, and troubleshoot any unforeseen compatibility issues. This collaborative approach prevents costly delays during board bring-up, accelerates time-to-market, and ensures the IP core delivers its intended performance gains within your complete system context. We provide detailed integration guides, example designs, and direct technical consultation to minimize handoff friction and reduce the learning curve for your internal teams.
For products with extended operational lifespans—such as aerospace, defense, medical, industrial automation, or telecommunications systems—we offer a Long-Term Support service tier specifically designed to sustain enduring product success. Under LTS agreements, your custom IP cores receive prioritized technical support, expedited issue resolution, and proactive maintenance over a committed multi-year period, aligning with your product's lifecycle roadmap. This ensures that if field issues emerge—whether from environmental stress, edge-case scenarios, or unexpected system interactions—your team has immediate access to the original design engineers who architected the core, enabling rapid diagnosis and resolution with minimal product downtime.
AI Accelerated FPGA IP Core Design