About Legup computing

About company

LegUp Computing Inc. provides a cloud platform that enables software developers to program, deploy, scale, and manage FPGA devices for accelerating high-performance applications. Originally developed at the University of Toronto, the LegUp platform offers a novel programming model that allows threaded C/C++ software to target FPGA devices connected to high-bandwidth networks for efficient processing of low-latency database, real-time analytics, and machine learning workloads. The company was founded by Dr. Andrew Canis, Dr. Jongsok Choi, Ruolong Lian, and Professor Jason Anderson in 2015 to commercialize the award-winning open-source LegUp high-level synthesis tool.