Synogate
Synogate is a Berlin-based semiconductor design company specializing in high-performance, cost-efficient, and flexible digital circuit solutions, including networking, AI acceleration, and hardware-implemented cybersecurity.
About
Synogate is a German technology startup based in Berlin, focused on advancing digital circuit design for semiconductors. Leveraging methods and tools from software development, especially agile and iterative approaches, Synogate quickly develops highly performant, flexible, and custom hardware solutions. Their expertise spans digital circuit design, high-speed network appliances (such as stateful firewalls and CDN platforms), hardware offloading, FPGA/ASIC prototyping, as well as AI accelerator chips for large language model inference. Synogate offers both standard IP-cores (such as HashCache, Tiny Cuckoo Core, and Anti-Replay Core) and consulting/services for custom RTL/FPGA/ASIC design. Their open-source Hardware Construction Library, Gatery, enables faster and more accessible hardware design. Synogate has provided technology approved by the German Federal Office of Information Security (BSI), is funded by federal German innovation programs, and is involved in industry initiatives and partnerships.
Products & Services
- Stateful Firewall (carrier-grade, 200 GbE throughput)
- LLM Accelerator (hardware for transformer-based large language model inference)
- CDN Platform (hardware-accelerated content delivery node)
- HashCache Core (high-speed, hardware-implemented key-value store for session state in networks)
- Tiny Cuckoo Core (FPGA/ASIC IP-core for Cuckoo Hash tables)
- Anti-Replay Core (hardware IP-core for protection against replay attacks; IPsec/BSI compliant)
- Gatery (open-source C++ Hardware Construction Library for RTL design)
- Network Resilience Testing (DDoS simulation and mitigation consulting)
- Network Offloading solutions (custom accelerator design for datacenters/financial/cloud/Cybersecurity)
- RTL Design Services (custom RTL/FPGA/ASIC development, verification, optimization)
- Consulting (digital circuit design, ML, hardware/software co-design, legacy system integration)
Use Cases & Case Studies
- DDoS-resilient stateful firewall deployment (FPGA Conference Europe 2023 demonstration)
- Packet replay protection (BSI-approved devices in German federal use)
- Hardware-accelerated HTTP cache for CDN (demonstration platform with 10M rps, <15µs latency, 1-HU 400GbE device)
- Custom digital system integration for legacy hardware (e.g., Game Boy FPGA projects)
Partnerships & Collaborations
- NVidia Inception Program
- Microsoft for Startups
- Bitkom
- PCI-SIG
- IPA
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (StartupSecure grant recipient)
- Digital Hub Initiative (de:hub)
- WISTA Management GmbH
Awards & Recognition
- StartupSecure grant by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Selected Finalist for Falling Walls Venture 2022
- Top solution in the German Japanese Tech Innovation Challenge (by Olympus)
Contact Information
Certifications & Compliance
- Compliance with IPsec (RFC 4301, RFC 4303)
- BSI (German cybersecurity certification)