10xEngineers

Semiconductor design & engineering services

Accelerate Time-to-Market for RISC-V, Image Processors & Compilers

Teaming up with fabless SoC firms, we offer RISC-V verification and design services, alongside Image Signal Processing expertise. Our team of highly skilled professionals helps you scale your design, verification, and compiler units by providing the necessary resources.

Where we work
From the model down to the silicon
AI models & applications

Vision, language, multi-modal

Compilers, runtime & kernels

MLIR, LLVM, hand-tuned kernels

Imaging pipelines

Algorithms, tuning, imaging IP

RTL, IP & verification

Formal, functional, uncore IP

Your silicon
RISC-V · custom
Design & Verification
Imaging
AI Infrastructure
25 bugs

Critical design bugs found by formal that simulation missed

<50 ms

End-to-end latency achieved on medical endoscope imaging

RVA22S64

Architectural coverage, unprivileged and privileged

Since 2021

Contributing to OpenHW CVA6 and core-v-verif

Working with
Andes 
Technology
OpenHW 
Foundation
Woodpecker 
Technologies
Harvey Mudd 
College
Vixul 
Companies
RISC-V Development 
Partners

What we do

Three practices, each backed by IP and tooling we’ve already shipped. Most engagements start in one and pull in the others.

01

Design & Verification

Silicon-grade verification and RTL design for RISC-V cores and hard SoC blocks — testplan to signoff, on your schedule.

Where simulation stops, proof begins. We prove NoC deadlock and livelock freedom, AXI4 protocol compliance, cache coherence, and complex RISC-V datapath correctness — driving critical properties from planning to convergence and signoff.

Coverage tells you when you’re done. We build test plans, functional models, test generators and regression automation methods, carrying a block from the very first testbench to signoff.

Toolchain, LLVM and bring-up work for RISC-V targets — developed and regressed on Cloud V, our on-demand CI with Linux shell, CI/CD scripting and QEMU modes.

The blocks around the core, ready to integrate: IOPMP for I/O physical memory protection, and Debug & N-Trace for core visibility during bring-up and post-silicon.

02

Imaging & Vision

A full ISP engineering practice — algorithm development, image quality tuning and hardware implementation — run on our own imaging platform.

Pipeline design from your spec or from scratch — demosaic, denoise, HDR fusion, colour and tone, modelled before anything reaches RTL.

Sensor bring-up and tuning to your IQ targets: spectral-calibrated white balance, noise reduction and colour calibration, judged on objective metrics.

The signed-off pipeline into silicon: RTL design, FPGA prototyping, area and latency optimisation, and verification of the imaging datapath.

The platform

Our own ISP platform is what the three services above are delivered on — one lineage from Python model to C reference to RTL, FPGA and ASIC. It keeps algorithm, tuning and hardware consistent instead of three teams re-deriving the same pipeline.

drives our imaging IP

The pipeline on GPU — software-defined, for throughput and fast iteration.

High dynamic range for scenes one exposure can’t hold.

Polyphase scaling for video and imaging pipelines.

Image quality analysis and tuning software.

03

AI Infrastructure Software Services

Custom silicon can’t deliver on its promise without software built to match it. We engineer the full AI software stack — from model optimization to compiler development to hand-tuned runtime kernels — so your workloads run at peak efficiency on any hardware, standard or custom. The result: silicon that performs the way it was designed to, from day one.

01

Vision, language and multi-modal model deployment built for production. We handle SDK development and end-to-end application pipelines so your models ship ready to run.

02

Model compression and inference speed-up techniques tuned to your target hardware, cutting latency and footprint without sacrificing accuracy.

03

Deep expertise across frontend frameworks, MLIR and LLVM — building the compiler layer that connects your models to silicon.

04

Hands-on work with llama.cpp, IREE, Triton and hand-written C/Asm kernels to squeeze maximum performance out of your runtime.

The products behind these services

RISC-V-first AI compiler stack

Hardware-aware quantisation

Kernel & graph optimisation

Ways to work with us

We offer a diverse range of engagement options, to accommodate different degrees of collaboration and responsibility, thereby delivering customized solutions aligned with your unique operational needs.

You direct the work
We own delivery
Model 01

Resource Augmentation

Our employees become part of your team.

Our team
+
Your team

You manage. Our engineers report into your leads and follow your process.

Model 02

Team Augmentation

Dedicated lead on our end to manage work, but both teams operate as a unified entity.

Our team
+
Your team

We co-manage. Our lead runs our side; the two teams work as one.

Model 03

Turnkey Project

Ensure timely and accurate project delivery without requiring individual interaction among team members.

Our team lead
+
Your team lead

We deliver. One interface — lead to lead. No day-to-day management on your side.

Not sure which model fits? Tell us the block and the deadline — we’ll tell you which one we’d recommend.

Not looking for engineering time? License what we've built.

AXI4 formal VIP, IOPMP, Debug & N-Trace, imaging IP, LumaIQ and the Baltoro compiler stack — available under licence, no engagement required.

Why teams trust us with hard blocks

We build in the open.
We deliver under NDA.

Client work stays confidential, so you can’t audit it. Our open-source work is the substitute: the same engineers, the same standard, in public. Read the commits before you read our proposal.

Recognised by

OpenHW Foundation — core contributor to CVA6 and CORE-V Wally since 2021

RISC-V Certification Steering Committee — our coverage work under consideration as a basis for open-source certification

Andes Technology — compiler partner for AI compilation on AX46MPV cores

Design & Verification
CVA6 & CORE-V Wally

Bit manipulation, Zce, Zicond and scalar cryptography extensions, plus infrastructure across core-v-verif and cvw-arch-verif.

Design & Verification
Architectural coverage

Open testplans and SystemVerilog coverpoints for RV32 and RV64 through RVA22S64 — the work now before the certification committee.

Design & Verification
RVV 1.0 via ARA

Vector instruction implementation and test generation in Force Simulator.

Imaging & Vision
Infinite ISP

A complete open image signal processor — Python model through C, RTL and FPGA to ASIC.

Design & Verification
riscvISACOV / RVVI

Coverage collection from a device under test over the RISC-V Verification Interface.

Software
Cloud V

On-demand CI for RISC-V development: Linux shell, CI/CD scripting and QEMU modes.

Seen enough? The same team is available for your block.

IP and tooling you can license today

Built inside client engagements, then hardened into products. Every one has a spec, a datasheet and an engineer who can walk you through it.

Silicon IP

I/O physical memory protection for RISC-V systems.

Debug and instruction trace for core bring-up and post-silicon.

Scaling IP for video and imaging pipelines.

Ready-to-use formal IP for 100% AMBA AXI4 compliance.

On-demand CI environment for RISC-V software.

Imaging

Open ISP, Python model through to ASIC.

GPU-accelerated, software-defined ISP.

High dynamic range imaging pipeline.

Image quality analysis and tuning software.

AI infrastructure

The RISC-V-first AI compiler stack, built on MLIR.

Hardware-aware quantisation, before tape-out.

Kernel and graph optimisation, proven on your hardware.

Their deep technical knowledge, hard work, and long-standing commitment to the RISC-V open-source ecosystem have made this project possible. The 10xEngineers liaisons contributed the coverpoints for virtual memory — the most complex portion of the functional coverage.

Prof. David Harris
Harvey Mudd College

10xEngineers have made outstanding contributions to the OpenHW community since joining in 2021, playing a key role in advancing the functionality, verification, and compliance of CVA6 and CV-Wally. We are counting on them for advancing industrial-quality, open-source RISC-V cores.

Florian “Flo” Wohlrab
Head of OpenHW Foundation

The 10xEngineers team provided exceptional compiler expertise throughout the project. Their LLVM-based tool significantly reduced Error Detection Latency and improved the error coverage of our post-silicon tests.

Woodpecker Technologies
Post-silicon validation

Tell us what you're building

An engineer reads every message. If there’s a fit, we’ll suggest a 30-minute technical call — no discovery deck.

San Diego, CA, USA

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