GL Research helps customers worldwide to develop smarter embedded systems with lower cost and faster time to market by offering a comprehensive portfolio of services based on the mainstream Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) technologies.
We collaborate with world class institutions such as CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and the Yocto Project (Linux Foundation collaborative project focused on Embedded Linux) in the development of advanced FLOSS designs & tools.
As System-on-Chip (SoC) technology advances and more functionalities are packed into a single processing device, multiple coding skills are required to unleash all the computing power contained in the silicon. Our embedded software development expertise spans from the highest heights of cloud enabled operating systems to the lowest lows of fully reconfigurable programmable logic, so that we are able to get the most out of virtually any device from any vendor.
Hardware bring-up, Real-Time Kernel, device drivers, multimedia codecs, user interfaces, networking, fast-boot, rugged filesystems...
Baremetal apps, low-level firmware, DSPs, FreeRTOS, MQX, the Zephyr Project, application specific peripheral code...
FPGA, VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog, System-C, SoC & IP-Core design, HLS (High Level Synthesis), Testbenches, Algorithm Acceleration...
Node.js, HPC Clusters, Networking and Computing Virtualization (Xen Project, KVM), Software Defined Netwoks, Deep Learning...
We provide best-in-class embedded software development services to our customers to help them create disruptive smarter systems by taking advantage of well-proven Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) technology while keeping the whole control of the delivered source code and ensuring the absolute privacy of their valuable intellectual property.
We provide you with technical & licensing advice about FLOSS based embedded systems development issues
We write down the work specifications and schedule the associated milestones to fit the desired Time-to-Market
We code by using collaborative development workflows, granting you access to the sources from the very beggining
We provide functional and unitary testing and apply continuous integration techniques for early issue & bug detection
We deliver a fully documented software solution and train you on those skills required to take control over it
We provide worldwide remote & on-site support accross the whole life cycle of the delivered embedded software
Despite the fact we devote a huge percentage of our time to Research & Development activities, we do not sell our own products, fill our own patents nor license our own technology. Our power comes from the community and we have the foundational compromise of contributing our own code not only to those Free/Libre/Open Source Software initiatives with an strategical interest for GL Research, but to those with a potential possitive impact in the society too.
At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter – the fundamental particles.
GL Research is a proud CERN official provider and an active member organization of the CERN's Open Hardware Repository, where research institutions and commercial companies jointly develops high performance embedded systems based on Free/Open Source technology.
GL Research is a participant organization in Yocto Project, a Linux Foundation collaborative project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture.
By using our Yocto Project expertise, we are able to deploy optimal application specific Linux runtimes in virtually any custom or commercial hardware platform, always with the fastest time-to-market and the lowest development costs.
The Xilinx Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC family combines the software programmability of a Processor with the hardware programmability of an FPGA, resulting in unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility, scalability while providing system benefits in terms of power reduction, lower cost & faster time to market.
GL Research masters Xilinx's All Programmable devices & design environments and partners with Avnet to offer services and Out-of-the-Box solutions optimized for Avnet's Zynq powered System-on-Modules & development kits (Microzed, Picozed, Zedboard...).
These are some of our featured projects. As our customers' privacy is a must for us, this doesn't pretend to be an extensive project accomplished list, but a representative sample of the jobs we have done that have been released under a Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) compatible license.
Do not hesitate in contacting us for any question or inquiry you may have. We will be glad to help you with your new embedded software development projects.
