SoM design
SoM-based hardware development
We help our clients optimize costs and accelerate time to market with ready-made systems on modules, where it's not necessary to develop hardware platform from scratch. It's a so-called SoM-based desing.
Systems on modules (SoMs) provide integrating relevant functional units such as microcontroller, microprocessors, DSP cores, memory blocks, industry standard communication and analog interfaces onto the printed circuit board (PCB).
Systems on module are embedded in a majority of products from telecommunication systems, automotive equipment, medical, and gaming devices to aerospace. Such mass usage is due to many advantages.
Benefits of using systems-on-modules:
Accelerate time-to-market
The module contains generic function modules, so you can focus on developing project-specific tasks.
Minimize risks
Use module components that have been pre-tested and certified to avoid risks.
Reduce costs
Using SoM, you can optimize product costs via the economy of scale.
Adopt advanced technologies
While developing SoMs, we use the latest solutions from market leaders.
Promwad provides following SoM design services:
Platform as a ready-made design
Use ready-made Promwad modules to develop your embedded system or use it as a developer's kit for modeling and designing equipment. You can also purchase rights to all documentation on Promwad modules, such as IMX6UL.
Custom specialized modules design
We design SoMs based on chips by our partners to address your needs. Our portfolio includes dozens of completed projects for clients all over the world, such as the SPEAr1340-based module (ST), DM3730-based module (TI) and others.
Platform improvement
We will modify the module to suit your project requirements. In case you have an outdated platform, or you need to implement unique features for your project, we can offer you the appropriate solution.
Ivan Kuten
Co-owner, tech expert at Promwad
To choose the best SoM solution you must ask a number of questions. Do you have in-house design expertise? What is your project budget and expected time-to-market? Where are you going to test and certify your product? In Promwad we can help to answer all of them considering details of your project.
Our technology map in SoM design
Specialized tools:
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Xilinx Vitis AI
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Xilinx Vivado Design Suite
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Intel Quartus Prime
Software platforms:
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Xilinx Deep Neural Network (xDNN)
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Xilinx Alveo
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Intel OpenVINO Toolkit
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TensorFlow
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Keras
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Caffe
Tools & Languages:
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C++
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Python
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Matlab/Simulink
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Verilog
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VHDL
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HLS
Hardware design:
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High-speed interfaces
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DDR4
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JESD204b
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SI, PI
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Thermo modeling
Our projects in SoM design
Framebuffer IP & PCI-e cores We developed a versatile framebuffer FPGA IP core and integrated PCI-e IP core into the customer’s FPGA project
Railway navigation unit We offered the customer a hardware solution based on three modules (units) that are connected with cables
Air monitoring system We designed a hardware and software system with measuring devices to collect and send the data to an IoT cloud server
Neuronavigator Promwad engineering team designed a working prototype with the support of 3D images of ultrasound / MRI / CT.
S-Terra trusted module We have developed a custom bootable medium, which is a USB device and designed to build trusted computing modules
Controller for traction driveWe upgraded the controller of an electric traction device for subway carriages made more than ten years ago
MPEG2/4 transcoder softwareWe finalized the firmware design for multi-channel transcoding of MPEG2-TS (transport streams) into H264 format
Locus DVB-T STBWe have developed a digital TV set-top box (STB) with support for DVB-T (MPEG-2/4) and terrestrial digital broadcasting
AK1100 thin clientWe have developed a new turn-key product, the AK1100 thin client based on the processor Marvell Sheeva 88F6282
5D video hardware+softwareWe have developed a 5D cinema hardware and software complex at the order of a company which supplies animatronics
Smart house controller We have designed the HDMI-CEC controller to manage a home multimedia complex: cinema, tuner, VCR and other devices
Onboard multimedia computerWe have developed a sophisticated hardware and software system for multimedia, GPS navigation, travel time calculation, control of air conditioning
JPEG2000 4-channel recorderWe developed a video registration device for storage and distribution of audio and video streams on request from 4 analogue sources
IP-Plug ARM mini-serverWe have developed the multifunction mini-server for solving a wide range of tasks in IP networks, functions as a computer or a server
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