Code Metal announced that it has acquired Signal Processing Technologies and launched a new Advanced RF Group.
The acquisition extends Code Metal’s provable AI platform into advanced communications, spectrum awareness, and digital signal processing. These capabilities are important across commercial telecommunications, autonomy, industrial infrastructure, aerospace, defense, and next-generation connected systems.
Signal Processing Technologies was founded in 2019 and brings expertise in signal processing, software-defined radio, advanced communications, spectrum sensing, RF machine learning, and Position, Navigation, and Timing. Its founders, Joe Farkas and Dr. Brandon Hombs, will join Code Metal to lead the new Advanced RF Group.
The deal marks Code Metal’s first acquisition and follows a period of rapid growth for the company. Earlier this year, Code Metal raised $125 million in Series B funding at a $1.25 billion post-money valuation.
Code Metal’s platform is designed to translate, verify, and optimize software as it moves from high-level languages onto specialized hardware. The company said its technology helps mission-critical industries move faster from software development to deployed capability.
The acquisition expands Code Metal deeper into the electromagnetic spectrum, an increasingly important and contested technology domain. Connected vehicles, satellite networks, 5G and 6G infrastructure, industrial IoT, autonomous platforms, and defense systems all depend on the ability to sense, communicate, navigate, and coordinate in complex radio frequency environments.
Code Metal said advanced RF systems ultimately depend on silicon, with algorithms for communications, sensing, navigation, and autonomy needing to run reliably on CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs, and emerging semiconductor platforms.
The new Advanced RF Group will extend Code Metal’s platform across areas including advanced communications, software-defined radio, spectrum awareness, spectrum sensing, RF machine learning, Positioning, Navigation and Timing, autonomous sensing systems, commercial and industrial wireless infrastructure, resilient and contested-spectrum operations, and next-generation aerospace and defense platforms.
Code Metal said the acquisition reflects its view that the future of engineering will be shaped by the convergence of AI, software, communications, semiconductors, and hardware. The company’s platform is already trusted by organizations including the U.S. Air Force, RTX, Toshiba, and L3Harris.
Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
KEY QUOTES:
“As AI accelerates software creation, the hard problem is no longer writing code — it’s turning that code into trusted systems running on the satellites, vehicles, communications networks, and critical infrastructure we depend on every day. Increasingly, those systems live or die by how well they operate across the electromagnetic spectrum. Acquiring SPT lets us solve that problem in one of the most consequential technology domains of the coming decade.”
“RF is where software meets hardware. The algorithms behind communications, sensing, navigation, and autonomy have to execute on real devices, such as CPUs, GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs, ASICs, and the next generation of semiconductor platforms. Expanding into RF takes us deeper into the silicon layer and strengthens our ability to move our customers’ capabilities from code to deployment, whatever industry they’re in.”
“We’re thrilled to welcome Joe, Brandon, and the SPT team. This strengthens our ability to help customers build the next generation of intelligent, spectrum-aware systems for mission-critical industries, from code to metal. We’re just getting started.”
Peter Morales, Founder and CEO of Code Metal
“We’ve spent years solving some of the toughest problems in the spectrum domain for defense and commercial customers. Code Metal gives us a way to deliver that expertise as a repeatable, provable engineering capability rather than a series of one-off projects. That’s a step change for the customers we serve.”
Joe Farkas, Co-Founder of Signal Processing Technologies
“What’s exciting about Code Metal’s technology is that it changes the speed and scale at which advanced engineering can happen. In RF, the hardest work is not just designing a great signal-processing algorithm, it’s proving that it works, optimizing it for the right hardware, and getting it deployed reliably across real systems. Code Metal gives us a way to accelerate that entire path from algorithm to implementation. That is exactly what this domain needs as signal processing, AI, and advanced semiconductors converge.”
Dr. Brandon Hombs, Co-Founder of Signal Processing Technologies
