Early access — July 2026

Your FPGA code.
Your requirements.
Verified.

Certiqo is the world's first AI-powered requirements verification tool built specifically for FPGA development. It checks that your HDL implements exactly what the specification requires — with nothing missing, and nothing extra.

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Built for programmes where mistakes are not an option

Purpose-built for FPGA teams in aerospace, space, and safety-critical defence — where requirements traceability, DO-254 and ECSS compliance, and first-time-right delivery are non-negotiable.

For subcontractors

Auditable proof of compliance at handover, eliminating the commercial and reputational risks of disputed deliveries against fixed specifications.

For in-house teams

Reduces the cost of rework by catching the gap between what was specified and what was built as early as possible in the design cycle, when it is cheapest to fix.

R&D backed by the European Space Agency

Certiqo's research and development is supported by the European Space Agency through its Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP) — the programme through which ESA funds early-stage technology aligned with the agency's mission-critical engineering needs.

ESA's space programmes demand zero-defect engineering: hardware that flies for decades in environments where physical repair is impossible, and where a single requirements gap can mean the loss of a billion-euro mission. By developing Certiqo against these standards from day one, the tool is engineered for the highest level of mission-critical work — not retrofitted to it.

The same rigour applies whether you're verifying an FPGA bound for low-Earth orbit, a safety-critical defence system, or a DO-254 avionics workload. ESA's involvement is your assurance that Certiqo is built to the standards your programmes demand.

84% of FPGA projects ship with non-trivial bugs

The root cause is rarely faulty logic. It's the gap between what the specification says and what the HDL implements.

84%
of FPGA projects ship with non-trivial bugs
Source: 2024 Siemens EDA / Wilson Research Group FPGA Functional Verification Trend Report
≥95%
target verification accuracy
Certiqo programme target
≥80%
target reduction in manual verification time
Certiqo programme target

Requirements are misunderstood. Outdated specs aren't reflected in RTL. Traceability lives in disconnected spreadsheets. Caught at integration, the cost of correction has multiplied exponentially. Caught at deployment, it may mean catastrophic mission failure. Simulation cannot tell you whether a requirement was correctly understood, and formal methods require you to manually translate intent into assertions. Neither bridges the semantic gap between specification and implementation.

Requirements verification that understands your design

Certiqo uses a large language model trained on an extensive library of HDL and requirements documentation to reason about whether your RTL implements the specification, not just whether it runs. The specialist nature of the training cannot be matched by frontier LLMs.

Automatic Requirements Matching

Match natural-language requirements to HDL implementation automatically, with pass/fail evidence and code highlighting.

Catch Mismatches at Design Time

Surface requirements gaps while you write RTL — not at integration, when the cost of correction has already multiplied.

Dead Code Detection

Identify functionality present in the HDL that maps to no requirement — a critical risk in safety and security-sensitive programmes.

End-to-End Traceability

Manage requirements, code, and project compliance in one place, with a full traceability matrix maintained as a by-product of your development workflow.

DO-254 & ECSS Ready

Generate audit-ready traceability reports designed to support DO-254 and ECSS compliance without the manual overhead. Every result carries a confidence score and reasoning your auditors can inspect.

Secure by Design

Open-weight models deployable on your own infrastructure. Your HDL and requirements documentation never leave your network — mandatory for classified aerospace and defence programmes.

How It Works

Certiqo fits your existing FPGA workflow — without adding manual overhead.

1

Bring Your Requirements

Import natural-language requirements alongside your HDL — from your existing requirements management tools or as structured input.

2

Write HDL As Usual

Develop in VS Code as normal. The extension monitors your VHDL, Verilog, or SystemVerilog files automatically as you write.

3

Semantic Verification

Certiqo reasons about whether your RTL implements each requirement, surfacing pass/fail evidence, code highlighting, and gaps in real time.

4

Audit-Ready Evidence

Every result carries a confidence score and reasoning. Traceability reports and CI/CD quality gates fall out of your development workflow automatically.

Two interfaces. One source of truth.

Real-time feedback for engineers, project-wide visibility for programme management.

VS Code Extension

  • Real-time requirements feedback
  • Inline pass/fail evidence as you write HDL
  • Code highlighting against requirement text
  • Stays inside your existing engineering workflow

Web Dashboard

  • Project-wide compliance view
  • Full traceability matrix and audit-ready reports
  • CI/CD quality gate integration
  • Designed to support DO-254 and ECSS workflows

See Certiqo in action

Watch Certiqo match natural-language requirements to HDL implementation, highlight evidence inline, and surface gaps in real time.

Join the Early Access Programme

We are opening early demos in July 2026 to a select group of FPGA engineering teams.
Get priority access, shape the product, and run it against your own designs and requirements — and help define the compliance reporting formats that matter most to your programmes.

Join the Early Access Programme