Defense and national security

The loop has to close in microseconds, inside the airframe, with nothing to phone home to.

Guidance, autonomy and perception on AMD adaptive silicon, sized to the platform's power budget. Our fire control and flight guidance work is an xTech|Apex Intercept finalist.

What it costs you

This is the industry where compute really is the constraint.

General-purpose compute does not fit

The power and thermal budget is decided by the airframe. A module that needs a fan and a heatsink has already lost the argument before anyone benchmarks it.

Where Nyx helpsA full perception and control stack proven in flight at roughly ten watts, on a single module.

Latency you cannot bound, you cannot certify

An operating system and a scheduler add jitter that is acceptable in a data center and unacceptable in a guidance loop. The worst case is the only case that matters.

Where Nyx helpsGuidance implemented in logic, where timing is a property of the design rather than an average across runs.

Dependency is program risk

Cloud services, foreign model weights and single-vendor stacks are procurement problems before they are technical ones, and they surface late.

Where Nyx helpsAir-gapped by design. No cloud dependency, no foreign model weights, allied nations only.

Runs on: AMD Kria K26 and KV260, with a path to Versal adaptive SoCs for larger sensor suites.

What it looks like in practice

Seeker and sensorsImaging, RF and inertial inputs
State estimationFused track of target and vehicle
GuidanceIntercept geometry and commands
AutopilotControl surface and thrust commands
RecordTimestamped engagement data

Worst-case timing for each stage is verified in hardware-in-the-loop test before anything flies.

Evidence

5 kHz

Guidance loop, zero measured jitter measured

Demonstrated to Army evaluators on September 22, 2026, as a finalist in U.S. Army xTech|Apex Intercept, Topic 4, Fire Control and Flight Guidance. $25,000 finalist award. Winners are named by December 31.

AMD Kria KV260

~10 W

Full autonomy stack, flight proven measured

Perception and control running on a single low-power module, flown on fixed-wing, multirotor, ground and legged platforms.

AMD Kria KV260

The first step

A scoped demonstration against your platform and your threat case, with success criteria agreed before anything is built.

Contact See the guidance core system Read the guidance core case study

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