Sarsen Introduces Impulse Accelerated Technologies to the Product Line

Author - Laura

We are very excited to annouce that Impulse Accelerated Technologies has appointed Sarsen Technology Ltd as its FPGA Tools and Design Services distributor in the UK and Ireland.

Founded in 2002, Impulse Accelerated Technologies is a Washington State based company who specialise in high performance and high reliability solutions which accelerate compute bound software modules by offloading them to FPGA. Having been in the business for over a decade Impulse offers sophisticated tools that work with Altera FPGA-based boards from BittWare, as well as Xilinx-based FPGA modules from Extreme Engineering and DAVE Embedded Systems (and other well known manufacturers!)

About Impulse C

Impulse C is one of the most widely used software to FPGA hardware optimizing compilers. It has been used in over 2,000 designs by clients as diverse as NASA, Sony and Wall Street Banks. Impulse CoDeveloper is compatible with > 90% of FPGAs, and available processor cores. Impulse CoDeveloper also produces synthesizable VHDL or Verilog compatible with many other tools.


Impulse C enables developers to rapidly prototype offloading CPU bound applications by moving them to multiple streaming processes running in FPGA hardware and software.

C and VHDL can be combined in heterogeneous programming. Impulse C even outputs IEEE compliant VHDL to simulators from Mentor and Aldec.

Impulse also offers board interface packages which link to memory, I/O, processors and other hardware features from C. 


The new relationship is going to allow us to support customers with complete FPGA-based solutions in the financial trading, telecommunications infrastructure, power generation and Mil/Aero markets, providing not only hardware and software, but also training and support going forward.

Impulse has helped over 500 teams improve their application by refactoring and recompiling it to run faster, smaller or at lower power. For more information about the new relationship and how it could benefit your FPGA-based application please contact Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or email us - info@sarsen.net