Founded on the premise that software is a first-order design principle in hardware development, Tactical Computing Laboratories is optimizing a platform's micro architecture / building accelerators for application-specific workloads only useful if the necessary software tools & optimizations are present to exploit it. The experience of the firm's principals in the design of advanced computing platforms for computationally-intensive and data-intensive workloads has conclusively proven this. In consequence, the firm is at the forefront of advanced platform development that efficiently marries traditional programming models and advanced hardware technologies.