Zettice was founded as a spin-off from Inria (National Research Institute in Computer Science) and ENS Lyon in France to accelerate complex computational algorithms onto hardware accelerators like FPGAs, GPUs and multicores. The company is searching for a business developer to join its team before the first round of investment, and is open to investment discussions.

According to Zettice, existing design automation tools do not adequately address complex computational algorithms in silicon. Zettice has developed advanced compiler technology build on powerful mathematical concepts that excels at processing complex computational algorithms and FPGA function synthesis (ASIC soon), increasing performance up to 50% for low complexity applications and up to 10x for complex applications. Zettice argues that its technology also reduces power on FPGAs up to 100x compared to multicore technologies and up to 10x compared to GPUs.

Zettice’s core technology (advanced compiler & arithmetic backend technologies) is based on more than two decades of research at LIP Laboratory (ENS Lyon and Inria). Zettice has exclusive license over the technology. This software automates the generation of fully customizable and optimized functions (IP blocks) for hardware accelerators that use FPGAs. These functions are customized to exact customer requirements. Fast “what-if” scenario explorations are possible without any additional costs. Zettice can generate IP Blocks in minutes that will be the best performing ones on the market, according to the company. The compiler technology is used with the same success on GPUs and multicore processor technologies in the research community.

Zettice is currently targeting high performance computing (HPC) and DSP applications in the financial, CAD simulation, medical, industrial and robotics markets. Some of the company’s products are ready for the FPGA market. The company will be formerly created in September 2013.

Alexandru Plesco, Ph.D., Founder, CEO & CTO
Adrian Muresan, Ph.D., Founder, R&D Director
Christophe Alias, Ph.D., Founder, CSO