Welcome to Shrikebyte
We make FPGAs go fast, and we do it fast.
About
Mission
Shrikebyte was founded with a laser-focused mission: to engineer elegantly practical FPGA-based systems where schedule, budget, hardware, and software all work together in lockstep harmony.
Philosophy
The true potential of FPGA-based systems is unlocked when hardware and software are treated as partners, not bolted together as an afterthought. Aligning both from day one avoids costly rework and eliminates the inefficiencies that come from siloed teams. Shrikebyte approaches every project with a systems-level mindset: translating high-level business goals into fast, robust, and elegant digital solutions.
Approach
We’re outcome-driven. We zoom in deep to the technical implementation details while also zooming out when necessary to not lose sight of the broader vision. We take responsibility for the fundamental success of your product. The phrase “that’s not my department” doesn’t exist here.
Winning in engineering never happens by checking boxes on a spec sheet. It happens by:
- Questioning everything to uncover hidden requirements
- Caring deeply about outcomes, not by following a cookie-cutter process
- Obsessing over delivering highly capable systems that shatter expectations and doing it with more agility than anyone else
- Managing a tight scope that doesn’t balloon into extra weight that ultimately drags down the product
Every day starts by asking:
Why are we doing this, is it making our customers’ lives better, and should we be doing anything differently?
Guiding Principles
- Deliver FPGA / SoC designs that go fast, and do it fast
- Never, ever, jeopardize trust
- Your success is our success
- Be radically transparent
- Have fun!
- Solve hard problems that matter
Services
Custom FPGA & SoC System Design
Need to create something that’s never been done before?
Turnkey Projects
From start to finish, we develop requirements, orchestrate a high-level architecture, execute the implementation, rigorously verify and test, and assist with ongoing sustainment.
Specialized Staff Augmentation
Need specialized FPGA staff for a one-off project that doesn’t justify a full-time hire? We have an expert at the who can hit the ground running and fit right into your team.
Prototype / Demonstration Systems
Need a proof-of-concept or development board prototype to explore design options and reduce risk before committing to a certain path?
Board Design Assistance
Never designed a custom FPGA board before? There are lots of pitfalls to watch out for, and we offer schematic design reviews to help catch problems before they make it to production.
Support Software & Embedded Linux
We can develop drivers that open up a simple user API to the complicated underlying system. Good abstractions with shallow interfaces and deep capabilities open up the floodgates to exploiting powerful FPGA / software systems.
Fixing A Botched Mess
We’ve all been there before. It’s that terrifying codebase that everyone else is too afraid to touch because it’s slowly devolved into such an incomprehensible mess and the last person to truly understand it retired 15 years ago. Let us handle the headache.
Legacy Design Migration
Is it becoming more difficult to source parts for that 25-year-old board? We have the knowledge and experience needed to guide a smooth transition while upgrading to newer product generations.
Technologies
These are some highlights of the technologies we are fluent in, along with a few examples of past projects.
Software-Defined Radio
Development of a high-reliability, low-cost, jamming-resistant RF geolocation system using time-of-flight multilateration. Capable of locating aircraft to 5 m of precision at ranges up to 15 km.
100G ethernet-based, super-wideband 1 GHz direction-finding signal sniffer.
Optical Communication
Design and implementation of an advanced free-space optics communications protocol, capable of delivering gigabit ethernet over an undetectable laser link.
Video Processing
Engineering of a sub-frame latency, real-time HD H.264 video compression pipeline and network broadcast system.
Digital Signal Processing
Design of custom signal processing models and implementations to detect RF pulses in impossibly noisy environments.
Embedded Design
Need a specialized processor that can simultaneously control 100 serial devices without skipping a beat?
High Speed I/O Interfaces
- PCIe
- 100G Ethernet
- MIPI
- DDR5 Memories
- Custom SERDES
Contact
Want to talk about your project? Contact us any time and we can have a conversation to see if Shrikebyte is a good fit.
We’ll never take on a project that we aren’t suited for and we’ll never recommend using an FPGA in a system where it doesn’t make sense. If we’re not the right fit, then we’ll gladly help point you to another expert in our network who is more appropriate for your project’s unique needs.