FPGABay was born from a simple frustration: professional-grade FPGA hardware was needlessly expensive, poorly documented, and inaccessible to the engineers who needed it most. We set out to fix that.
Our Mission
For decades, professional FPGA development was gated behind $10,000+ tooling, obtuse documentation, and hardware that required a six-figure engineering budget to evaluate. We believed that was wrong.
Today, a student in Lagos, a startup in Berlin, and a defense contractor in Huntsville all use the same FPGABay boards to build the next generation of intelligent systems. That's the world we're building.
We spec every board to its theoretical maximum, then validate every unit in-house before it ships.
Every decision we make — hardware, software, documentation — is filtered through one question: does this help the engineer build faster?
We publish full schematics, BOM files, and constraint files. No locked-down proprietary formats. Your hardware is truly yours.
We ship to 150+ countries. Our documentation is available in 6 languages. Great hardware should be accessible everywhere.
History
Founded in San Francisco by Elena Vasquez and Marcus Chen
First Artix Edge X1 board ships. 500 units sold in 48 hours.
$12M Series A led by Hardware Club. Kintex Core series launched.
Crossed 10,000 developer accounts. Opened EU distribution hub in Amsterdam.
Versal AI Edge launched. First board certified for aerospace applications.
$40M Series B. 50,000+ boards shipped worldwide. Team of 80.
The Team
Our team comes from AMD Xilinx, Intel, SpaceX, Stripe, Apple, and Qualcomm. We know hardware and we know developers.
Co-founder & CEO
Former AMD Xilinx Distinguished Engineer. 15 years designing high-speed digital logic for aerospace and HPC.
Co-founder & CTO
Ex-Intel Labs. PhD in Computer Architecture from MIT. Holds 12 patents in reconfigurable computing.
Head of Hardware Engineering
Previously at SpaceX and Qualcomm. Specializes in signal integrity and high-speed PCB design.
VP of Developer Experience
Built developer platforms at Stripe and Cloudflare. Obsessed with making complex tools feel effortless.
Lead FPGA Architect
Contributed to the Versal ACAP architecture at AMD. Expert in AI Engine programming and Vitis AI.
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Where We Are
Our headquarters is in San Francisco's SoMa district, with hardware engineering in Shenzhen, developer relations in Berlin, and distribution centers in Amsterdam, Singapore, and Dallas.
Global presence map
We're always looking for exceptional engineers, designers, and operators who want to build the hardware platform of the future.