Bristol start-up Silicon Basis is commercialising its FPGA technology, SiTela, for the consumer markets.

"We have the density and power consumption to get into consumer, wireless and mobile markets," said Rob Beat, the founder. "For these markets the performance has to be 100mega-operations per milliwat, and we are much better than that."

Beat licensed the underlying FPGA technology developed at the University of California, but for SiTela he has developed technology on top to reach the power and density requirements. Patent applications on this are being made next week, he said.

"We have had tremendous interest from the people we have talked to about this," he added.

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