System integration is Faststream's flagship capability: owning the parts of a product that fall between disciplines, where most programmes actually get stuck. The chip works and the board does not. The board works and the firmware does not. Everything works and it will not pass certification. Integration is where those problems live, and it is deliberately not described as engineering services.
Architecture, RTL, verification, DFT, timing closure, physical implementation and tapeout.
SILICONArchitecture, HDL, timing closure, resource optimisation and hardware bring-up.
SILICONDependency removal, technology mapping, equivalence and physical implementation.
ANALOGData converters, PLLs, references, power management and RF front ends.
HARDWARESchematic, layout, signal and power integrity, bring-up and validation.
SOFTWARELinux, RTOS, BSPs, bootloaders, drivers, firmware and middleware.
CLOUDIngest, device registry, fleet control, OTA update and analytics.
PRODUCTIONNPI, test coverage, provisioning, yield analysis and lifecycle support.
AIVision, sensor fusion, edge inference and the model lifecycle around them.
The phrase describes a staffing arrangement — hours supplied against a customer's plan. That is a real business, and it is not this one.
System integration means owning an outcome across disciplines: taking responsibility for the fact that the ASIC, the board, the radio, the firmware and the cloud have to work as one thing, and that the boundaries between them are where the schedule is lost. A company that only supplies specialists cannot own that, because nobody in the room is accountable for the gap.
System partitioning, interface definition, technology selection, and the power, cost and performance budgets everything downstream is held against.
ASIC, SoC or FPGA implementation, or IP integration into an existing device.
Schematic, high-speed layout, signal and power integrity, prototype build, bring-up and validation.
Bootloader, BSP, drivers, RTOS or Linux, middleware, firmware and update mechanism.
Cellular, Wi-Fi, BLE, UWB, NFC, LPWAN or satellite, with antenna integration and certification path.
Vision, sensor fusion, edge inference and analytics where the product needs to decide rather than report.
Ingest, device registry, fleet management, over-the-air update, dashboards and integration with customer systems.
Test strategy and coverage, factory provisioning, yield analysis, qualification and lifecycle support.
Owning an outcome across disciplines rather than supplying specialists into a customer's plan. It covers architecture, silicon, hardware, embedded software, connectivity, intelligence, cloud and manufacturing transition, with accountability for the boundaries between them.
Yes, and it is common — usually where a specific discipline is the bottleneck, or where an integration problem has surfaced that no single existing team owns.
No. It is a capability delivered as an engagement, which is why it sits under System Integration rather than under Products. A product is something you receive; a design service is work that gets done.
Tell us the specification, the constraint and the deadline. Programmes that cross silicon, radio, embedded and AI are where Faststream is strongest.