Team & Technology

Modern, Open, and Reproducible Design Stack

We build our design environments on a carefully selected, fully open, and production-proven technology stack. Our goal is simple: maximum transparency, reproducibility, and long-term maintainability.

Every component in our stack is chosen to:

• avoid vendor lock-in

• enable full control over designs and workflows

• support scalable collaboration across teams

🔧 Hardware Description & Simulation

We focus on a modern, efficient HDL workflow: Verilog for all hardware designs and testbenches

• Simulation using:

  • Verilator

  • Icarus Verilog

We intentionally do not use VHDL, allowing us to maintain a consistent and streamlined toolchain.

🐍 Verification & Scripting

• Python for scripting and automation

• Cocotb for advanced, Python-based testbenches

This enables flexible, high-level verification strategies and faster iteration cycles.

⚡ High-Performance Components

• C/C++ for performance-critical tools

• Device simulation models implemented in native code
  
  

🔁 Version Control & Collaboration

• GitLab (self-hosted) for:

  • version control

  • project management

  • secure collaboration

🚀 CI/CD & Automation

• GoCD as central CI/CD system

• Integration across:

  • private repositories

  • public platforms (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

Ensures continuous integration of designs, verification, and system components.

🐳 Reproducible Environments

• Docker for system image management

Enables:

• consistent environments across teams

• deployment on-premise or in the cloud

• reproducible toolchains for design and verification
  
  

🧠 Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Read the Docs for structured documentation

• Zulip as support and collaboration forum

🖥 User Interface & Platform

• ImGui for engineering GUIs

• Quasar Framework for web frontend development

• PostgreSQL as backend database

🔌 Hardware & PCB Design

• KiCad for open-source PCB design