Startups building hardware
You have the product concept and the market. We provide the engineering that takes it from a specification to working hardware.
The company
About BrainIOStream
BrainIOStream LLC is an embedded systems engineering company. We deliver proof of concept systems, prototypes and low-volume production across firmware, hardware and the reverse engineering between them.
Clients
Who we work with
We are not set up to staff a department for a year. We are set up for the projects where something has to exist for the first time and the team has not built one before.
Software teams adding a device
The application exists and the hardware does not. We develop the device and the firmware interface to the system you already run.
Companies needing low volume
A short production run, or a board whose original supplier is no longer available. Low volume is our standard scope.
How we operate
One team across hardware and software
Most embedded projects fail late: at certification, in production, or in the field after launch. Those failures are usually created early, when the board and the firmware are specified by separate suppliers who never meet. We take responsibility for both.
You work directly with the engineers building your product. Requirements go to the people who implement them, with no account layer in between.
Founded 2018
Firmware, hardware and vehicle electronics delivered for startups, product teams and engineering partners.
Hardware and firmware together
Schematic and firmware are developed under one roof, so an integration problem does not wait between two suppliers to be assigned.
Designed for manufacturing
Test fixtures, programming and automated test are part of the development plan, not a phase that begins after design freeze.
Technology
Platforms and tools we work with
Silicon, toolchains and instruments in current use, so a project does not begin with two weeks of learning the part.
- Languages
- C, C++, ARM assembly, Python, C#, Objective-C, Swift, Java
- Microcontrollers
- ST STM32 and Nordic nRF5 / nRF54, across the full range of each. Espressif ESP32, Raspberry Pi RP2040 and RP2350, NXP i.MX RT, Silicon Labs EFR32, Texas Instruments CC13xx and CC26xx, Microchip ATSAM
- RTOS and Linux
- Bare metal, Zephyr, FreeRTOS, TI-RTOS. Embedded Linux with Yocto, Buildroot, Bitbake, u-boot, kernel drivers and device tree
- Radio and buses
- BLE, ANT+, sub-GHz, 2.4 GHz proprietary, Wi-Fi, GSM and GPS, CAN, LIN, RS-485, Modbus, SPI, I²C, UART, USB, OneWire, Ethernet and TCP/IP
- Build and test
- Make, CMake, CTest, Ceedling, GoogleTest and gmock, GCC, Clang, IAR, Segger tools, Docker, Git and CI pipelines
- Hardware bench
- Altium and DipTrace, oscilloscopes, logic analysers, power profilers, signal generators, rework and soldering, automated test equipment
- Reverse engineering
- Ghidra, the ARM debug interface, logic analysis, schematic recovery from a finished board, custom programmers
Contact
Talk to our engineers
Describe the product, the current blocker and the required timeline. You will get a technical assessment, including a clear answer if the project falls outside our scope.
We normally reply within one business day. For a hardware assessment, photographs of both sides of the board with the connector visible are usually enough to start.