Electronics design
Schematics, routing and board fabrication to validate our architectures.
Research & development
World-class innovation: hardware, microchips and advanced software
Beyond client projects, Xearth devotes part of its energy to research: designing chips and embedded systems, and writing the software that brings them to life.
Our research areas
Three complementary directions, from silicon to software.
Microchips & semiconductors
Processor architectures and specialized circuits: energy efficiency, on-device AI, hardware security.
Embedded systems & connected devices
Microcontrollers, sensors, communication and robotics: from prototype to production-ready board.
Advanced software
Distributed systems, compilers, AI engines and developer tools built for performance and reliability.
Research in practice
Prototype, measure, iterate.
Rapid prototyping
Test benches and prototypes to test early and fix fast.
Compute & infrastructure
Simulation, model training and large-scale testing.
How we run R&D
An engineering approach, from problem to prototype.
- 01
Explore
Monitoring, reading publications and choosing the problems worth the effort.
- 02
Prototype
Hardware and software proofs of concept, measured against criteria set in advance.
- 03
Validate
Tests, reviews and comparison with the state of the art.
- 04
Transfer
What works joins our products and our client projects.
Our principles
Open, rigorous and collaborative research.
Openness
We build on open standards and communities: RISC-V, Linux, open-source software.
Rigor
Every result is measured and reproducible before it is shared.
Collaboration
Universities, labs, manufacturers and startups are welcome to work with us.
R&D technologies
From systems languages to hardware acceleration.
- C / C++
- Rust
- RISC-V
- Arm
- Embedded Linux
- FPGA
- PyTorch
- CUDA
Frequently asked questions
Does Xearth sell chips?
Not today. R&D feeds our products and our projects; we will communicate about any offering when it is ready.
Can we collaborate with your R&D?
Yes. Labs, schools, manufacturers and startups can contact us for a joint project or a prototype.
What is the role of AI in this research?
It speeds up exploration and analysis, under human supervision, and it is also a research topic: on-device AI on energy-efficient chips.
An idea for a collaboration?
Tell us about your research project or your hardware need: we will explore together what is possible.