Providing bespoke high integrity firmware solutions
A Leader in High-Integrity Firmware
FPGA and CPLD control is a vital part of many complex high integrity systems, with the significant size of the modern day FPGAs their use in critical systems is ever increasing. Our large permanent team of experienced and qualified engineers have significant capability across a breadth of applications from land based to in orbit, encompassing a range of technologies from Flash to Anti-fuse FPGAs.
Phixos is a trusted supplier for any firmware project, from independent reviews to full project development, verification and certification.
Our Worcester based team is engaged and flexible to your exact goals and needs. With an independently approved ISO 9001:2015 and TickITplus Quality Management System and experienced project management services, your project can be outsourced with the knowledge that it is in safe hands.
- IP core generation and integration
- Specialist design for SEU mitigation
- Experts in simulation test and formal equivalence
Firmware standards & process definition
These form the foundations that the technical solution will be built upon, Our early definition of these will ensure maintainability, certification and reduce the impact and cost due to future modifications.
Full lifecycle development and verification
Our full-lifecycle ownership allows you to focus on the system and product, allowing us to do what we do best and provide a complete verified compliant firmware solution.
Requirements definition
Decomposing your System requirements into a set of Firmware requirements or performing a requirement capture activity, will give you the confidence that we can describe and agree on the success criteria of the Firmware’s performance.
Architecture
Our Firmware architecture will ensure all stakeholders understand the firmware structure allowing the engineers to work in parallel in confidence and reducing the impact to cost due to any future increases in size and complexity.
RTL design & implementation
With extensive experience in RTL design, synthesis for a wide variety of targets, place and route and timing closure, our firmware team can design and implement solutions for all requirements.
IP core generation & integration
Our ability to generate IP cores to support reuse across programs or by integrating 3rd party IP cores like SpaceWire into the design, we can ensure a design that meets your needs.
Simulation test
Our extensive capabilities cover a broad range of test approaches including constrained random testing and behavioural modelling, combined with formal equivalence through gate level testing we can provide the functional verification your system requires using any of the industry standard tools like Questa Sim and formal Pro.
SEE/SEU analysis & mitigation
Your design considerations will be critical to your systems tolerance to
in-orbit SEU, our wealth of experience can help you implement a robust design to support this.
Full Certified solution
Our 30 + years of high integrity development and verification experience, up to DAL A/SIL 4 gives you the confidence that our processes will ensure a certifiable firmware solution.
Software standards & process definition
These form the foundations that the technical solution will be built upon, Our early definition of these will ensure maintainability, certification and reduce the impact and cost due to future modifications.
Full-lifecycle development & verification
Our full-lifecycle ownership allows you to focus on the system and product, allowing us to do what we do best and provide a complete verified compliant software solution.
Requirements definition
Decomposing your System requirements into a set of Software requirements or performing a requirement capture activity, will give you the confidence that we can describe and agree on the success criteria of the software’s performance.
Architecture
Our Software architecture will ensure all stakeholders understand the software structure allowing the engineers to work in parallel in confidence and reducing the impact to cost due to any future increases in size and complexity.
Design and Implementation
With extensive experience in a broad range of tools, languages and design methodologies, Our software team can design and implement from board support packages and low level drivers to application control and monitoring functionality.
Independent verification & validation
Our dedicated independent verification team has over 30 years of experience, of all types of software V&V, using a broad range of commercial and bespoke tools to implement functional and robustness testing, from unit to integration test.
Legacy system updates
With complex electronics in service for decades, modification, upgrades and obsolescence are common place, We have extensive experience of taking ownership of old systems and toolchains and migrating/updating to ensure functional and standards compliance.
Graphical HMIs
Our experience in developing dynamic interactive real-time graphical HMIs for complex solutions like avionic displays, allows rapid ‘look and feel’ prototyping to allow your front-end system to be refined as the project progresses.
Full Certifiable solution
Our 30 + years of high integrity development and verification experience, up to DAL A/SIL 4 gives you the confidence that our processes will ensure a certifiable software solution.
Firmware standards & process definition
These form the foundations that the technical solution will be built upon, Our early definition of these will ensure maintainability, certification and reduce the impact and cost due to future modifications.
Full lifecycle development and verification
Our full-lifecycle ownership allows you to focus on the system and product, allowing us to do what we do best and provide a complete verified compliant firmware solution.
Requirements definition
Decomposing your System requirements into a set of Firmware requirements or performing a requirement capture activity, will give you the confidence that we can describe and agree on the success criteria of the Firmware’s performance.
Architecture
Our Firmware architecture will ensure all stakeholders understand the firmware structure allowing the engineers to work in parallel in confidence and reducing the impact to cost due to any future increases in size and complexity.
RTL design & implementation
With extensive experience in RTL design, synthesis for a wide variety of targets, place and route and timing closure, our firmware team can design and implement solutions for all requirements.
IP core generation & integration
Our ability to generate IP cores to support reuse across programs or by integrating 3rd party IP cores like SpaceWire into the design, we can ensure a design that meets your needs.
Simulation test
Our extensive capabilities cover a broad range of test approaches including constrained random testing and behavioural modelling, combined with formal equivalence through gate level testing we can provide the functional verification your system requires using any of the industry standard tools like Questa Sim and formal Pro.
SEE/SEU analysis & mitigation
Your design considerations will be critical to your systems tolerance to
in-orbit SEU, our wealth of experience can help you implement a robust design to support this.
Full Certified solution
Our 30 + years of high integrity development and verification experience, up to DAL A/SIL 4 gives you the confidence that our processes will ensure a certifiable firmware solution.
Planning documents definition
Your plans will under pin your certification, defining your development and verification environments, lifecycle and the means to satisfy the objectives of the applicable certification standard. Our expertise in defining these will set your project on the right track from the very beginning.
Standards and process definition
With a very broad project portfolio, our wealth of experience in defining standards will ensure a consistent approach to development and verification as well as prevent constructs or methods that are not verifiable or counter to the certification standards.
Tool qualification/ assurance
Tool qualification is a key facet of certification and is key to ensuring your chosen tools can’t either introduce and error or fail to find an error. Our experience in producing tool qualification evidence will support your certification.
Independent quality assurance
From the more typical quality assurance activities ensuring ongoing compliance against standards, through to more detailed Pre-Stage of Involvement Audits (SOI 1-4). Our independent Quality team can provide that peace of mind that everything is proceeding to plan.
Certification support & ownership
Your project success hinges on certification success. Our experience of not only supporting your generation of certification evidence, but also owning the certification and interfacing directly with the certification authority will help you achieve certification and success.
Re-certification
Modifications, upgrades and obsolescence to old legacy systems, requires re-certification, typically against an updated certification standard with higher expectations. Our broad experience will help you bridge the gap to re-certification in a cost-effective manner.
Why Choose Phixos
Experts in the Safety-Critical Space
For many years Phixos has provided some of the world’s biggest Space, Aerospace and Defence companies with high integrity firmware development and verification support. Consistently delivering successful and safe applications into both the civil and military arenas up to DAL A/SIL4
With extensive experience in the industry, Phixos have built a strong reputation for themselves, with guaranteed high quality deliverables, flexible project management and client communication. Phixos can support or independently manage a range of Firmware projects.
- Flexible and collaborative working style
- Extensive experience in design and test of Space based FPGAs
- CPLD/FPGA expertise up to DAL A/SIL 4
What our customers think
Why Choose Phixos
Achieving the Highest of Standards
Specialising in high integrity systems we have a proven track record of delivering firmware solutions to the applicable industry standards.
If you have any specific requirements, get in touch and we can discuss your bespoke needs further.
- DO-254
- ECSS-Q-ST-60-02
- ISO 26262
- ISO 61508
- BS EN 50128
- IEC 60601
- Def Stan 00-56