Digital chip designer QBayLogic made an important contribution to the laser solution of the consortium consisting of Esa, Airbus, TNO and Demcon for the Tomcat project. The goal was to develop an optical ground station, including an optical ground terminal. This terminal had to receive laser signals from a satellite, which on their way are influenced by atmospheric conditions that cause distortions of the beam. Twente’s engineering company Demcon asked QBayLogic because of its design methodology for high-level FPGA programming. The successfully designed and applied chip has both analogue and digital aspects. A follow-up to this project will be launched shortly.