EMBEDDED SOFTWARE/FIRMWARE

Synapse offers complete turnkey development services in the embedded software and firmware space. With our strong heritage in semiconductor development, we are the ideal partners to work with to support your systems level software/firmware needs. Our expertise spans low-level embedded software/firmware, up to middleware, and continues to the application software needed to tie it all together.

Design Services:

• Device Drivers
• OS Drivers
• Kernel Level
• Processor-based Firmware
• Boot loaders
• Develop and Implement Post-Silicon Validation Test Suites
• Application Software
• Adapter Card Design
• UI/GUI Design
• Test Packages and Scripting

Areas of Expertise:

• Networking, Routing, Switching, Ethernet, 802.x, Cellular/Baseband, Tablets, Data Storage, Graphics, Video
• All major CPU, GPU, and DSP architectures including multi-core ARM/custom architectures
• OS: Linux, Embedded Linux, ucLinux, LabWindows/CVI, Windows, Windows Mobile, Mac OS X, Android, VXWorks, Nucleus, Quadros, pSOS, FreeRTOS and Windows CE
• Languages: Assembly, C/C++, Java, J2EE, Javascript, PHP, PERL, Python, Ruby, TCL

Primary Tools:

• Disciplined development process
• Requirements tracking
• Source code control
• Unit, Integration, Functional, Logical testing
• Bug tracking