Swabian Instruments GmbH develops and manufactures instrumentation for time-correlated single photon counting and digital signal processing, including the Time Tagger series and Pulse Streamer.
Swabian Instruments GmbH is a high-tech start-up founded in 2016 and based in Stuttgart, Germany. It develops and manufactures advanced instrumentation for time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) and digital signal processing, combining high-performance hardware design with in-house software toolkit development.
The company's portfolio spans digital signal acquisition and signal generation. Its flagship Time Tagger Series allows researchers to process and control digital signals on-the-fly through flexible software toolkits paired with high-performance hardware. The Pulse Streamer covers signal generation and forms part of the same instrumentation line for digital signal processing and control. Work at the company cuts across hardware design, embedded systems, test and measurement instrumentation and software tooling.
Its instruments are installed at top universities and research institutes worldwide, among them MIT, Cambridge and NASA, serving fields including quantum research, photonics, scientific academia and space research. The company has received three innovation awards: the Stuttgarter Innovationspreis 2021, a Top 3 finalist place at the Deutscher Gründerpreis 2019 and the Innovationspreis Baden-Württemberg 2018.
Internally, Swabian Instruments operates with a flat organisational structure and close cross-functional collaboration between science, business, hardware and software teams. Work is oriented towards bringing ideas to fruition, whether in the form of new devices, user interfaces or workflow improvements.
