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backend/api/migrations/0001_initial.py

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+# Generated by Django 5.0.6
+
+import django.utils.timezone
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    initial = True
+
+    dependencies = []
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='BlogPost',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('slug', models.SlugField(max_length=200, unique=True)),
+                ('title', models.CharField(max_length=200)),
+                ('excerpt', models.CharField(max_length=300)),
+                ('body', models.TextField(help_text='Markdown.')),
+                ('category', models.CharField(choices=[('ai', 'AI'), ('space', 'Space'), ('robotics', 'Robotics'), ('engineering', 'Engineering'), ('company', 'Company')], default='company', max_length=20)),
+                ('author_name', models.CharField(max_length=120)),
+                ('read_time_minutes', models.PositiveIntegerField(default=5)),
+                ('cover_image_url', models.URLField(blank=True)),
+                ('is_published', models.BooleanField(default=True)),
+                ('published_at', models.DateTimeField(default=django.utils.timezone.now)),
+                ('created_at', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)),
+                ('updated_at', models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)),
+            ],
+            options={'ordering': ['-published_at']},
+        ),
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='ContactSubmission',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=120)),
+                ('email', models.EmailField(max_length=254)),
+                ('company', models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=160)),
+                ('role', models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=120)),
+                ('country', models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=80)),
+                ('interest', models.CharField(choices=[('ai-ip', 'AI Inference IP'), ('security-ip', 'Cybersecurity IP'), ('comms-ip', 'Communication IP'), ('custom-asic', 'Custom ASIC'), ('careers', 'Careers'), ('press', 'Press'), ('other', 'Other')], default='other', max_length=20)),
+                ('message', models.TextField()),
+                ('referrer', models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=200)),
+                ('user_agent', models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=400)),
+                ('ip_address', models.GenericIPAddressField(blank=True, null=True)),
+                ('created_at', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)),
+            ],
+            options={'verbose_name': 'Contact submission', 'ordering': ['-created_at']},
+        ),
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='Founder',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=120)),
+                ('role', models.CharField(max_length=160)),
+                ('domain', models.CharField(help_text='Short description of the technical domain they own.', max_length=240)),
+                ('bio', models.TextField(help_text='~80-word bio. Markdown allowed.')),
+                ('photo_url', models.URLField(blank=True)),
+                ('linkedin_url', models.URLField(blank=True)),
+                ('sort_order', models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0)),
+                ('is_published', models.BooleanField(default=True)),
+            ],
+            options={'ordering': ['sort_order', 'name']},
+        ),
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='JobApplication',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=120)),
+                ('email', models.EmailField(max_length=254)),
+                ('role_applied_for', models.CharField(max_length=160)),
+                ('portfolio_url', models.URLField(blank=True)),
+                ('message', models.TextField(blank=True)),
+                ('cv', models.FileField(blank=True, null=True, upload_to='applications/%Y/%m/')),
+                ('created_at', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)),
+            ],
+            options={'ordering': ['-created_at']},
+        ),
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='JobOpening',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('slug', models.SlugField(max_length=120, unique=True)),
+                ('title', models.CharField(max_length=160)),
+                ('location', models.CharField(choices=[('surat', 'Surat, India'), ('iist', 'STIIC / IIST, Thiruvananthapuram'), ('remote', 'Remote (India)'), ('hybrid', 'Hybrid')], default='surat', max_length=20)),
+                ('employment_type', models.CharField(default='Full-time', max_length=40)),
+                ('description', models.TextField(help_text='Markdown.')),
+                ('is_open', models.BooleanField(default=True)),
+                ('posted_at', models.DateField(default=django.utils.timezone.now)),
+            ],
+            options={'ordering': ['-posted_at']},
+        ),
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='NewsletterSignup',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('email', models.EmailField(max_length=254, unique=True)),
+                ('source', models.CharField(blank=True, help_text='e.g. footer, blog, contact', max_length=120)),
+                ('confirmed', models.BooleanField(default=False)),
+                ('created_at', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)),
+            ],
+            options={'ordering': ['-created_at']},
+        ),
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='Product',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.BigAutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('slug', models.SlugField(max_length=80, unique=True)),
+                ('name', models.CharField(max_length=120)),
+                ('category', models.CharField(choices=[('ai', 'AI Inference'), ('security', 'Cybersecurity'), ('comms', 'Communication Protocol'), ('asic', 'Custom ASIC Services'), ('other', 'Other')], max_length=20)),
+                ('tagline', models.CharField(max_length=200)),
+                ('summary', models.TextField(help_text='2–3 sentence overview shown on the products grid.')),
+                ('description', models.TextField(help_text='Long-form description shown on the product detail page (markdown).')),
+                ('benefits', models.JSONField(blank=True, default=list, help_text='List of benefit strings. Example: ["High throughput per watt", "INT8/INT4"].')),
+                ('features', models.JSONField(blank=True, default=list)),
+                ('spec_table', models.JSONField(blank=True, default=list, help_text='List of {"label": "...", "value": "..."} pairs for the spec table.')),
+                ('primary_cta_label', models.CharField(default='Request evaluation', max_length=60)),
+                ('is_published', models.BooleanField(default=True)),
+                ('sort_order', models.PositiveIntegerField(default=0)),
+                ('created_at', models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)),
+                ('updated_at', models.DateTimeField(auto_now=True)),
+            ],
+            options={'ordering': ['sort_order', 'name']},
+        ),
+    ]

backend/api/migrations/0002_seed_initial_data.py

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+"""Seed the database with the launch content (products, founders, blog)."""
+from django.db import migrations
+from django.utils import timezone
+
+
+PRODUCTS = [
+    {
+        "slug": "ai-inference-ip",
+        "name": "AI Inference IP Core",
+        "category": "ai",
+        "tagline": "Parallel inference at the edge — deterministic, quantised, portable.",
+        "summary": (
+            "A parallel-compute IP core for running quantised neural networks on FPGA "
+            "or ASIC. Built for vision, sensor fusion, and on-orbit inference."
+        ),
+        "description": (
+            "Our AI Inference IP Core is designed for workloads where GPUs are too "
+            "power-hungry and general-purpose NPUs are too opaque. It runs INT8 / INT4 "
+            "quantised networks with deterministic latency, ports cleanly from FPGA "
+            "prototype to ASIC tape-out, and is verifiable end-to-end."
+        ),
+        "benefits": [
+            "Higher throughput-per-watt than CPU / GPU at the edge",
+            "Deterministic latency for real-time control loops",
+            "INT8 / INT4 quantisation-aware datapath",
+            "Synthesises on standard FPGA tooling",
+            "Same RTL portable from FPGA to ASIC",
+        ],
+        "features": [
+            "Parameterised RTL",
+            "Reference compiler for an ONNX subset",
+            "FPGA reference design",
+            "Integration guide & testbench",
+        ],
+        "spec_table": [
+            {"label": "Interface", "value": "AXI4 / AXI-Stream"},
+            {"label": "Precision", "value": "INT8 / INT4"},
+            {"label": "Targets", "value": "Xilinx UltraScale+, Intel Agilex, 28nm ASIC"},
+            {"label": "Verification", "value": "UVM testbench included"},
+        ],
+        "primary_cta_label": "Request evaluation",
+        "sort_order": 1,
+    },
+    {
+        "slug": "cybersecurity-ip",
+        "name": "Cybersecurity IP Core",
+        "category": "security",
+        "tagline": "Hardware-accelerated cryptography — side-channel hardened.",
+        "summary": (
+            "A drop-in hardware accelerator for symmetric and asymmetric cryptography "
+            "and secure boot — built for defense electronics and secure-element SoCs."
+        ),
+        "description": (
+            "Hardware acceleration for AES, SHA, ECC and RSA primitives, plus a secure "
+            "boot block. Designed constant-time and side-channel hardened from the "
+            "first line of RTL — security is not a wrapper, it's the architecture."
+        ),
+        "benefits": [
+            "Constant-time implementation",
+            "Side-channel hardened",
+            "FIPS-aligned algorithm set",
+            "Low gate count for embedded targets",
+        ],
+        "features": [
+            "AES-128 / 256, SHA-2 / 3",
+            "ECC (P-256, P-384), RSA-2048 / 4096",
+            "True random number generator interface",
+            "AXI / AHB wrappers",
+            "Security white paper",
+        ],
+        "spec_table": [
+            {"label": "Interface", "value": "AXI4-Lite / AHB-Lite"},
+            {"label": "Algorithms", "value": "AES, SHA-2/3, ECC, RSA"},
+            {"label": "Targets", "value": "FPGA + 28/40nm ASIC"},
+            {"label": "Compliance", "value": "FIPS-aligned"},
+        ],
+        "primary_cta_label": "Request evaluation",
+        "sort_order": 2,
+    },
+    {
+        "slug": "communication-ip",
+        "name": "Communication Protocol IP",
+        "category": "comms",
+        "tagline": "Space- and avionics-grade communication blocks. Flight-proven.",
+        "summary": (
+            "SpaceWire, CAN, UART/SPI/I2C and custom satellite payload buses — "
+            "low gate-count, well-documented, and flight-proven on operational missions."
+        ),
+        "description": (
+            "Our communication IP catalogue is the most battle-tested part of our "
+            "stack — variants of these cores have flown on operational satellite "
+            "missions. We licence the same blocks to ground systems, payload "
+            "integrators, and avionics OEMs."
+        ),
+        "benefits": [
+            "Space-qualified design practice",
+            "Low gate-count for power-constrained targets",
+            "Flight-heritage documentation",
+            "Comprehensive verification IP",
+        ],
+        "features": [
+            "SpaceWire / SpaceFibre",
+            "CAN-FD",
+            "UART / SPI / I2C masters & slaves",
+            "Custom satellite payload buses",
+            "Reference designs + integration guide",
+        ],
+        "spec_table": [
+            {"label": "Protocols", "value": "SpaceWire, CAN-FD, UART, SPI, I2C"},
+            {"label": "Heritage", "value": "Flown on operational satellite missions"},
+            {"label": "Verification", "value": "Protocol-compliant testbenches"},
+        ],
+        "primary_cta_label": "Request evaluation",
+        "sort_order": 3,
+    },
+]
+
+
+FOUNDERS = [
+    {
+        "name": "Ali Murabbi",
+        "role": "Co-founder · VLSI & Robotics Engineer",
+        "domain": "RTL / FPGA design · robotics control hardware · motion and sensor-fusion blocks",
+        "bio": (
+            "Hardware designer specialising in RTL and FPGA for robotics and motion "
+            "systems. At SSPACE, IIST, contributed to onboard compute blocks for "
+            "satellite payloads and now leads RisingCompute's communication-protocol "
+            "and robotics IP work."
+        ),
+        "sort_order": 1,
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "Bhavy Savani",
+        "role": "Co-founder · VLSI & AI Engineer",
+        "domain": "RTL / FPGA design · quantised neural-network accelerators · verification",
+        "bio": (
+            "VLSI engineer focused on AI accelerator architectures and verification. "
+            "At SSPACE, IIST, designed and verified compute IP that has flown in "
+            "space; at RisingCompute, leads the AI Inference IP Core and the "
+            "Cybersecurity IP Core."
+        ),
+        "sort_order": 2,
+    },
+    {
+        "name": "Abhishek Verma",
+        "role": "Co-founder · System Engineer & Project Manager",
+        "domain": "System architecture · integration · project delivery · GTM",
+        "bio": (
+            "Systems engineer and programme lead. Brings the IP, the engineering "
+            "team, and the customer programme together — sets architecture, owns "
+            "project delivery, and runs partner and customer conversations."
+        ),
+        "sort_order": 3,
+    },
+]
+
+
+BLOG_POSTS = [
+    {
+        "slug": "why-we-started-risingcompute",
+        "title": "Why we started RisingCompute",
+        "excerpt": (
+            "Two years inside a satellite-software lab taught us something simple: "
+            "the difference between what a research team can do with AI and what most "
+            "engineers can do comes down to compute. We started RisingCompute to close "
+            "that gap."
+        ),
+        "category": "company",
+        "author_name": "Abhishek Verma",
+        "read_time_minutes": 4,
+        "body": (
+            "## A note from the founders\n\n"
+            "RisingCompute was born inside the SSPACE lab at IIST. We spent two "
+            "years building computation systems for satellites — IP that has since "
+            "flown in space. What we kept noticing was the gap between what a "
+            "research team can do with the right hardware and what a typical "
+            "product team can do with whatever GPU they could afford.\n\n"
+            "Our bet is that closing that gap is a hardware problem, not a "
+            "software one. Parallel architectures, well-designed IP cores, and a "
+            "vendor that ships datasheets you can actually read."
+        ),
+    },
+    {
+        "slug": "what-flight-heritage-means-for-ip",
+        "title": "What flight heritage actually means for IP cores",
+        "excerpt": (
+            "\"Flight-heritage\" is one of the most over-claimed phrases in the IP "
+            "industry. Here's what it means to us, what it doesn't, and what to "
+            "ask the next vendor that uses the term."
+        ),
+        "category": "space",
+        "author_name": "Ali Murabbi",
+        "read_time_minutes": 6,
+        "body": (
+            "## What counts, and what doesn't\n\n"
+            "Flight heritage is not just \"this RTL was synthesised onto a flight "
+            "FPGA once.\" Real heritage is end-to-end: a documented chain from RTL "
+            "to verification artifacts to a specific board, on a specific mission, "
+            "with a specific telemetry track."
+        ),
+    },
+    {
+        "slug": "int8-inference-without-accuracy-loss",
+        "title": "Designing AI inference cores for INT8 without accuracy loss",
+        "excerpt": (
+            "Quantisation is a free lunch — until it isn't. A practical walk "
+            "through the datapath choices that decide whether INT8 inference is "
+            "production-ready or just a benchmark trick."
+        ),
+        "category": "ai",
+        "author_name": "Bhavy Savani",
+        "read_time_minutes": 8,
+        "body": (
+            "## The two failure modes\n\n"
+            "Most INT8 implementations fail in one of two ways: accuracy collapse "
+            "from poor calibration, or throughput collapse from naive datapath "
+            "layout. We walk through how we designed around both."
+        ),
+    },
+    {
+        "slug": "indian-sovereign-ip-stack",
+        "title": "An Indian sovereign IP stack — and why it matters now",
+        "excerpt": (
+            "\"Make in India\" content rules are reshaping defense and space "
+            "procurement. A founder note on what an Indian-origin IP stack should "
+            "look like — and what it shouldn't."
+        ),
+        "category": "company",
+        "author_name": "Abhishek Verma",
+        "read_time_minutes": 5,
+        "body": (
+            "## Sovereign doesn't mean isolated\n\n"
+            "Sovereign IP should mean Indian-origin design, Indian-origin "
+            "verification, and an Indian-origin support chain. It does not mean "
+            "rejecting global tooling or global customers."
+        ),
+    },
+]
+
+
+def seed(apps, schema_editor):
+    Product = apps.get_model("api", "Product")
+    Founder = apps.get_model("api", "Founder")
+    BlogPost = apps.get_model("api", "BlogPost")
+
+    for row in PRODUCTS:
+        Product.objects.update_or_create(slug=row["slug"], defaults=row)
+    for row in FOUNDERS:
+        Founder.objects.update_or_create(name=row["name"], defaults=row)
+    for row in BLOG_POSTS:
+        BlogPost.objects.update_or_create(
+            slug=row["slug"],
+            defaults={**row, "published_at": timezone.now()},
+        )
+
+
+def unseed(apps, schema_editor):
+    Product = apps.get_model("api", "Product")
+    Founder = apps.get_model("api", "Founder")
+    BlogPost = apps.get_model("api", "BlogPost")
+    Product.objects.filter(slug__in=[r["slug"] for r in PRODUCTS]).delete()
+    Founder.objects.filter(name__in=[r["name"] for r in FOUNDERS]).delete()
+    BlogPost.objects.filter(slug__in=[r["slug"] for r in BLOG_POSTS]).delete()
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+    dependencies = [("api", "0001_initial")]
+    operations = [migrations.RunPython(seed, unseed)]