Synthex We go all the way down.
Six layers of engineering, from the RTL up to the application. Take one of them as a standalone engagement, or take the range — the argument for the range is that a symptom seen at the driver level often has its cause three layers below, and one team can follow it there.
Every layer below is scoped the same way: what the work covers, who does it, and what you receive at the end of it.
If your problem sits between two of these layers, that is usually the interesting one. Say so in the first email.
Chip design & post-silicon
Design work through to first silicon, and then the part schedules usually break on: getting that silicon to run on a bench, understanding how it actually behaves against the spec, and debugging the platform around it when it does not.
Digital design
- RTL design
- Functional verification
- Testbench development
- Coverage closure
Analog & mixed-signal
- Circuit design
- Layout
- Simulation across corners
- Silicon correlation
Post-silicon
- Bring-up on first samples
- Characterisation
- Validation against spec
- Platform and silicon debug
- You receive
- Verification plans and coverage reports, characterisation data with the conditions it was taken under, and debug findings written so the next engineer can act on them without a handover call.
Software development & validation
The software that sits directly on your hardware, plus the long unglamorous stretch that decides whether a product ships: making it stable under load, making it fit the power budget, and making it fast enough on the workloads customers actually run.
Bring-up
- System bring-up
- Board support
- Device driver development
- Integration with the stack above
Stability
- Stress and soak testing
- Crash and hang analysis
- Root-cause tracing into hardware
- Regression suites
Power & performance
- Power profiling
- Idle and active optimisation
- Throughput and latency tuning
- Benchmarking against targets
- You receive
- Driver source with its test suite, stability reports against defined workloads, and before-and-after power and performance measurements on the same rig.
Camera & imaging
Everything between a sensor and an image a customer is happy with. Algorithm work, the tuning that turns a technically correct picture into a good one, the embedded system it all runs on, and the SDK your customers build against.
Algorithms
- Imaging algorithm development
- Pipeline design
- Low-light and noise handling
- Evaluation against reference targets
Image quality
- IQ tuning
- Colour and exposure calibration
- Lab measurement
- Subjective review rounds
Delivery
- Embedded camera systems
- Camera SDKs
- Sample applications
- Documentation for integrators
- You receive
- Tuned parameter sets per sensor and module, the measurement data behind them, and an SDK your integrators can use without asking us questions.
Network
Networks sized for what you actually run rather than a vendor reference diagram, then deployed, integrated with what is already in the building, and maintained once it is carrying production traffic.
Design
- Custom network architecture
- Capacity and growth planning
- Resilience and failover
- Segmentation and access
Deployment
- Build and rollout
- Migration from existing networks
- Integration with current infrastructure
- Commissioning and acceptance testing
Operation
- Monitoring setup
- Maintenance
- Incident response
- Handover to your team
- You receive
- Architecture documents, device configurations under version control, acceptance test results, and runbooks written for whoever is on call at 3am.
Cloud
Architecture, delivery practice and migration work that moves existing systems without stalling the roadmap — with analytics designed into the platform rather than bolted on eighteen months later.
Architecture
- Enterprise architecture
- Target-state design
- Cost and capacity modelling
- Security and access design
Delivery
- DevOps practice
- Infrastructure as code
- Build and release pipelines
- Observability
Transformation
- Migration planning and execution
- Application modernisation
- Data platform and analytics
- Team enablement
- You receive
- A target-state architecture with the trade-offs stated, infrastructure defined as code in your own repository, working pipelines, and a migration runbook with rollback steps.
Blockchain
Distributed ledger work where it earns its keep: proving provenance across a supply chain that crosses company boundaries, and managing digital assets in a way that survives an audit. If a database would do the job, we will tell you that instead.
Ledger
- Distributed ledger design
- Network and permissioning model
- Consensus and node operation
- Integration with systems of record
Contracts
- Smart contract development
- Test coverage and review
- Upgrade and governance paths
- Preparation for external audit
Applications
- Supply chain traceability
- Digital asset management
- Provenance reporting
- Participant onboarding tools
- You receive
- Contract source with its test suite, a deployment and upgrade procedure, and documentation an external auditor can work from.
Three ways to bring us in
The layer decides what the work is. This decides how it is staffed and who carries the schedule.
Dedicated team
A Synthex team owns a defined part of your programme and reports against its own milestones. You get capacity without recruiting for it, and it scales down when the phase ends.
Suits multi-quarter programmes with a stable scope.
Fixed-scope project
A defined deliverable, an agreed acceptance test, and a price. We carry the schedule risk. Best when the outcome can be written down precisely before anyone starts.
Suits bring-up, validation campaigns and migrations.
Embedded engineers
Named engineers join your team, work in your tools and stand-ups, and report to your leads. You keep the schedule and the technical direction.
Suits a specific skill gap on an existing team.
Which layer is the problem?
Send the symptom, the schedule and what has already been tried. An engineer reads it and replies — including telling you if it is not work we should take.
Email info@synthex-tech.com- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday and Sunday, 11:00am – 3:00pm