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Origins
Algotronix was originally formed in 1989 to develop a unique FPGA chip for computing applications: the CAL1024. The architecture of this device was based on work done by one of the principals of Algotronix at Edinburgh University starting in 1985. A photo-album showing Algotronix' original products is available on this site.
In 1993 Algotronix sold its technology to Xilinx Inc., the staff became employees of Xilinx Inc. and the company was voluntarily liquidated.
Managing a design team within Xilinx between 1993 and 1998 the Algotronix founders were exposed to best-practice in a high growth post-IPO semiconductor company. The technology purchased from Algotronix formed the basis of Xilinx's XC6200 product line and key architectural elements are used in Xilinx's Virtex product families.
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The Present
In 1998 following a reorganisation at Xilinx, the rights to the Algotronix name were purchased back from Xilinx and Algotronix was reformed as an independent consulting company.
Since 1998 Algotronix has established itself as the leading independent source of expertise in programmable logic architecture and silicon implementation for venture capitalists, law firms and startup companies. In 2005 Algotronix provided technical due diligence on closed deals with a value in excess of $300M.
While operating as a service company between 1998 and 2004 Algotronix developed proprietary IP cores for cryptographic applications and filed a number of patent applications on digital rights management for FPGA bitstreams.
Since 2005 Algotronix has been actively marketing its proprietary cryptographic IP core products and is focussing on growing this part of its business.
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