Enclustra’s San Diego operations will provide localized manufacturing of field-programmable gate array products, which the company sees as having potential to help industries like aerospace and defense, medical, and wireless communications.
SAN DIEGO—The Switzerland-based tech company Enclustra Inc., a specialist in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), recently opened its U.S. operations in San Diego to “realize the full potential of embedded chip technologies,” the company said in a release.
Enclustra said it provides design services and embeds system-on-chips modules on boards the size of a credit card—FPGAs—to “help customers reduce time-to-market, mitigate risk, and create solutions that improve business and life.” These FPGA products and services are key to the company’s effort to help realize “the next big thing in aerospace and defense, medical, vision systems, and wireless communications,” according to the release.
Enclustra’s U.S. operations will focus on sales, engineering, design services, and localized manufacturing, enabling “made in the USA” FPGA products over the next year. The company said it plans to recruit and hire more than 30 positions in sales, engineering, local sourcing, and manufacturing over the next 12 to 18 months.
“With embedded chip technologies, the potential that lies behind executing dreams is tremendous,” said Philipp Baechtold, CEO of Enclustra Inc., in a statement. “If we fail to realize them, the responsibility lies solely on us. Our FPGA solutions can be life-saving, life-changing, and dream-making across any industry.”
Baechtold said that Enclustra chose San Diego for its U.S. operations due to its “ever-growing technology landscape, engineering talent, and high quality of life.”
For the aerospace and defense industry, Enclustra’s FPGA products are said to simplify complex navigation, tracking, and communication for aircraft carriers, satellites, lunar modules, and helicopters. For the medical industry, they reportedly provide low latency and “ultra-fast reaction times in critical surgeries, such as Lasik eye surgery, where the machine accounts for the nano-second movement of the eye.” For wireless communications, the FPGAs allow for
clear signal communication across an ever-increasing number of diverse connected devices in a 5G world, the company said.
Enclustra also said that for vision systems, the company’s FPGA solutions are key to evolving facial recognition capabilities across multiple devices. They also reportedly enhance accuracy and flexibility in testing applications by enabling customized, high-speed data processing, precise signal control, and adaptable instrument functions.
In summing up the main benefits that its FPGA products provide to customers, the company said that in addition to modularity and reliability, they provide fast time-to-market by using off-the-shelf hardware; high compute density; and “infinite programmability,” as they can be updated and upgraded “at will.”
Based in Zurich, Enclustra is a provider of FPGA design and development services and solutions, with subsidiaries in Germany, France, and the United States. In addition to FPGA and system-on-modules (SoM) and FPGA-optimized IP cores, the company said it offers design and development services covering the entire spectrum of FPGA-based system development. Those services range from high-speed hardware or HDL firmware to embedded software, and from system design, specification, and implementation to prototyping, the company said.