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Silicon Jester — Smart, Playful Silicon Engineering

From FPGA proof-of-concepts to production firmware and silicon strategy — pragmatic engineering that accelerates your roadmap.

About

Who we are

Silicon Jester is a lean engineering studio focused on embedded systems, FPGA development, production firmware and silicon strategy. We blend deep technical rigor with pragmatic product thinking to help teams ship reliable hardware and firmware faster.

  • Embedded firmware & driver development
  • FPGA prototyping & verification
  • Silicon architecture & bring-up
  • Roadmaps, tooling & validation pipelines

We make complex silicon simple — and sometimes funny.

Services

Services

FPGA & HDL

RTL design, synthesis-ready architectures, testbenches and verification to validate concepts quickly and reliably.

Firmware & Drivers

Robust firmware, hardware abstraction layers and device bring-up that scales from prototype to production.

Silicon Strategy & Bring-up

Architecture reviews, validation plans and early bring-up guidance to de-risk your tapeout and manufacturing flow.

HW CI & Tooling

CI pipelines, regression automation and reproducible test frameworks for hardware and firmware validation.

Advising & Team Augmentation

Short-term expert engagements, architecture sessions and mentoring to accelerate internal teams.

Work

Selected Work

Low-latency Networking Core

Delivered a wire-speed packet processing core plus reference firmware, reducing latency and improving throughput for an edge networking product.

FPGA Networking
Robust Sensor Firmware

End-to-end firmware, calibration routines and OTA-safe upgrade flow for a distributed sensing platform.

Firmware IoT
Silicon Bring-up & Validation

Architected validation plans and automated regression tests that caught corner-case failures before mass production.

Validation Silicon

Testimonials

What clients say

"Their firmware and FPGA team accelerated our roadmap by months. Clear, pragmatic and focused on outcomes."

CTO, EdgeAI startup

"Helped us design a validation strategy that prevented expensive silicon spins. Highly recommended."

VP Engineering, Semicon company

"Fast, professional and a delight to work with — they demystified our hardest problems."

Pricing

Pricing

Hourly

$180 / hr

Flexible, advisory or short bursts of engineering support.

  • Advisory calls
  • Code reviews
  • Short engagements
Project

Fixed price

Defined scope engagements with milestones and deliverables.

  • Scoping & kickoff
  • Milestone-based delivery
  • Acceptance criteria
Dedicated Engagement

Monthly

Ongoing team augmentation with prioritized delivery.

  • Dedicated engineers
  • Roadmap planning
  • Continuous validation

Contact

Let's talk

Quick contacts

hello@siliconjester.com

+1 (555) 123-4567

Remote-first — US & EU