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Tinverse Platform Vision

Robotics infrastructure for regulated markets.

Tinverse is building a configurable stack that combines custom Linux, NVIDIA edge AI modules, AMD/Xilinx FPGAs, deterministic motion control, verified state-machine tooling, EtherCAT, and cloud analytics for teams building serious robots.

Custom Linux Jetson Orin to Thor Kintex FPGA motion fabric Field-ready engineering
Platform

The next robotics products need a platform layer, not a pile of demos.

Robots leaving the lab need perception, deterministic motion, cybersecurity, update control, observability, and a build process that survives review. Tinverse targets the infrastructure layer between commodity hardware and finished robotic products.

What we know how to build

Real-time Linux, FPGA motion control, EtherCAT, and deterministic state machines in one architecture.

How it ships

Repeated integration work becomes Tinverse Linux, hardware references, SDKs, and long-term support.

Who needs it

Robotics teams where reliability, traceability, and security affect purchasing decisions.

Problem

Robotics teams are asked to move fast without losing control of the system.

Real-time behavior

Servo loops, sensor capture, and fault reaction need bounded timing, not best-effort Linux behavior.

Modern perception

Edge AI workloads need NVIDIA GPU acceleration, camera pipelines, simulation, and model deployment.

Reviewed environments

Medical, laboratory, industrial, and safety-sensitive products need traceable builds, SBOMs, cybersecurity discipline, and release records.

Platform Layers

A modular platform for robotic systems.

Tinverse Linux

Supported custom Linux images for approved boards, with RT/non-RT variants, CUDA/no-CUDA options, signed images, SBOMs, manifests, and release notes.

Motion-control hardware

Jetson plus FPGA control boards, drive-slice interfaces, FPGA ABI, and power-electronics reference designs for custom actuators.

Regulated robotics software

State-machine infrastructure, EtherCAT motion integration, simulation, telemetry, and cloud analytics designed for long-lived products.

Product Direction

Tinverse Linux is the supported operating environment.

Tinverse Linux is the customer-facing image family: board policy, kernel policy, image composition, vendor-stack integration, flashing, updates, and release records.

Yocto track

Production image composition, board-specific builds, license manifests, SBOM/CVE records, and deployable rootfs workflows for embedded products.

Guix track

Reproducible development environments, custom kernel work, source-built records, and controlled experimentation where transparent build graphs matter.

Compute Ladder

Scale from compact edge nodes to high-end physical AI systems.

Smallest viable Jetson + FPGACompact motion supervision, gimbals, small joints, lab devices, and focused data collection.
Jetson Orin classRobotics perception, planning, control supervision, real-time Linux, EtherCAT, and multi-axis FPGA I/O.
Jetson Thor classHigher-performance physical AI, multi-camera perception, foundation-model workloads, and larger robotic systems.
FPGA optionsScale axis count and I/O from smaller Artix/Kintex-class devices to Kintex UltraScale XCKU035/XCKU040 motion fabrics.
Hardware Boundary

NVIDIA handles physical AI; FPGA fabric handles deterministic motion.

NVIDIA Jetson
CPU/GPU, perception, planning, UI, logging, cloud agent
PCIe
AMD/Xilinx FPGA
FOC timing, PWM, encoder capture, current sampling, fault latches
Drive slices
Gate drivers, MOSFETs, current sense, brakes, STO, thermal
Cloud analytics
Telemetry, fleet health, release provenance, post-market signals
Solution Areas

One platform, multiple regulated-market entry points.

Medical and surgical robotics

Flexible robotic control, robotic arms, dual-encoder plausibility, deterministic actuation, and engineering records that can stand up to review.

Lab automation

Traceable sample handling, deterministic I/O, uptime analytics, chain-of-custody events, and secure update paths.

Industrial motion and inspection

EtherCAT, DS402-like drive semantics, GPU perception, FPGA timing, and fleet-level diagnostics for deployed systems.

Customer Outcomes

What this gives engineering teams.

Faster bring-up

Jetson/FPGA robotics without re-solving the same board support, kernel, and motion-interface problems for every program.

Repeatable releases

RT images, build manifests, SBOM/CVE workflows, signed images, and clear release history.

Deterministic motion

FPGA timing, encoder capture, current-sense synchronization, PWM generation, and hard fault response.

Field visibility

Telemetry, update records, thermal headroom, fault trends, and device health for deployed systems.

Tinverse Components

The roadmap connects existing Tinverse projects.

Tinverse robotics stack

Flexible robotics design, control architecture, simulation, telemetry, and edge/cloud integration.

verified-tsm

Deterministic hierarchical state machines with formal semantics and generated traces for control software that has to be reviewed later.

EtherCAT driver

DPDK-oriented userspace EtherCAT master direction, cyclic process data, DS402-style motion integration, and simulation support.

Cloud analytics

Device identity, telemetry, events, update records, thermal headroom, torque trends, fault frequency, and fleet reliability views.

Review-Ready Engineering

Build the records while the product is being built.

In medical, laboratory, and industrial robotics, the technical work and the review trail cannot be separated. Tinverse keeps the operating system, motion software, FPGA interfaces, cybersecurity records, and telemetry tied back to the releases that created them.

Software lifecycle

Requirements, architecture, state behavior, test records, and release history stay close to the code.

Cybersecurity

SBOMs, vulnerability handling, signed updates, secure boot, and controlled release records are part of the platform.

Field feedback

Telemetry, fault trends, uptime, thermal headroom, and release-to-field correlation close the loop.

Defensibility

The hard part is the integration.

Hardware/software boundary

Board policy, FPGA timing, Linux image composition, kernel variants, and cloud observability are designed together.

Verification records

Formal state semantics, RTL checks, simulation traces, release manifests, and vulnerability handling become part of the product memory.

Regulated-market fit

Customers in medical, lab, and industrial domains value conservative engineering, reproducibility, review packets, and long-term support.

Why Now

Physical AI needs deterministic bodies.

NVIDIA Jetson Orin and Thor make high-performance edge AI practical in robotic systems. AMD/Xilinx FPGAs provide deterministic I/O and motion timing where Linux and GPUs should not be the only safety boundary. Tinverse combines those pieces with controlled Linux builds, verification tooling, and deployment records.

Tinverse

Custom boards. Custom Linux. Deterministic motion. Secure releases.

Tinverse is for teams building real robotic products that need to combine high-performance perception, real-time control, motion hardware, and long-term field support in one coherent platform.