
El Camino is a renowned design house with decades of experience in the development and implementation of complex FPGA solutions.
As a certified Altera partner, we have in-depth expertise in the application of Altera FPGAs – from concept and implementation to optimization. Customers benefit from our technical understanding, practical advice, and customized designs that shorten development times and maximize system performance.
With a combination of expertise, innovative strength and close collaboration with Altera, El Camino offers real added value for demanding FPGA projects.
We accelerate time-to-market for complex embedded systems, signal processing, and AI applications using Altera Agilex™, Stratix®, Arria®, and Cyclone® families.
Our services include, among other things:
- System Architecture & Definition: Development of functional specifications, feasibility studies, power estimation, and defining the architecture of both logic and interconnections.
- Custom RTL Design & Verification: Development of Verilog, VHDL, and SystemVerilog code, including IP integration (soft/hard IP cores) and algorithm implementation.
- High-Speed Interface Development: Expertise in high-bandwidth protocols, including PCIe Gen3/Gen4/Gen5, DDR4/DDR5 memory controllers, and 10G/40G/100G Ethernet.
- SoC FPGA & Embedded Software Development: Customization of SoC devices, featuring HPS (Hard Processor System) integration, Linux kernel/driver development, Board Support Packages (BSP), and RTOS support.
- FPGA AI Suite Services: Optimization of AI inference models using the Altera FPGA AI Suite, integrating Tensor blocks for edge-based machine learning.
- Board-Level Design & PCB Layout: Schematic capture, multi-layer PCB design, signal integrity (SI) analysis, power integrity (PI) analysis, and thermal management.
- Verification & Validation: Functional simulation, test bench generation, timing analysis (timing closure), and hardware bring-up/debugging using tools like Signal Tap and Transceiver Toolkit.
- High-Level Synthesis (HLS): Translating C/C++ algorithms to hardware.
- ASIC-to-FPGA Conversion: Re-hosting legacy ASICs into Altera FPGAs.
- Video & Vision Processing: Implementing VVP (Video and Vision Processing) Suite IPs.