heronIC

Using AI to design bespoke AI hardware

about

At Heronic Technologies, we deliver state-of-the-art bespoke accelerator architectures for AI. Inspired by the great mathematician Heron of Alexandria, who pioneered the concept of automata in mechanics, we are redefining the automation of hardware design. We have produced the best-in-class hardware when it comes to TinyML, object detection and human action recognition tasks, setting the industry standard for performance and innovation. Our technology is compatible with the latest FPGA devices from leading vendors, including AMD, Altera, Lattice, Microchip, and GOWIN. Additionally, we are actively developing our ASIC toolflow to further expand our capabilities.

the technology

the founding team

We are a group of researchers from Imperial College London with the vision of shifting the paradigm of AI computing. Together we have been researching hardware acceleration of AI algorithms for the past 6 years. This has led to numerous publications in top-tier conferences and journals, achieving state-of-the-art performance in object detection, human action recognition and image classification on FPGA devices. Our work has also won awards from AMD, as well as achieving state-of-the-art on the MLCommon's MLPerf Tiny benchmark.