ACI for New Design Creation

From idea to silicon, faster

Import requirements from any source — text, images, CSV, Python — and let ACI generate detailed specifications, engineering plans, and optimized RTL for correctness and PPA.

SoC architects, front-end designers, RTL engineers — and more. From requirements to optimized RTL in record time.

Comprehensive design capabilities

Every tool an SoC architect needs to go from concept to production-ready RTL.

Multi-Format Input

Requirements from text, images, CSV, Python, and more — parsed and structured into actionable design inputs.

Architectural Exploration

Evaluate architectural variants to find optimal performance tradeoffs. Every section, port, parameter and figure are queryable. An atomic-fact substrate and feature registry.

Microarchitecture Specs

Cycle-accurate μArch: every FSM, datapath and timing budget derived and proven; register map, CDC notes, SVA assertions, requirement→feature allocation map, module hierarchy, and bound IP.

Formally-checked RTL

Not stochastic problem solving; a multi-module RTL tree generated from the formalized spec with a per-module dependency manifest.

Independent verification suite

4-way self-checked and spec-aligned DV testbenches that drive to functional correctness alongside the RTL.

PPA Pareto

PPA optionality on the first pass, no zero-sum trade-offs. Center the design and explore available margin right from the microarchitecture.

From whiteboard to optimized implementations

As an SoC architect, Alana starts each project at a blank whiteboard, with requirements scattered across specs, spreadsheets, and sketches. The hard part is turning that intent into optimized silicon without weeks of manual translation.

With Cognichip ACI, Alana imports requirements from any source — text, images, CSV, or Python. ACI explores architectural variants, generates detailed specs and plans, and emits synthesizable, formally-checked RTL with spec-aligned DV testbenches — surfacing PPA optionality on the first pass.

For the company, this collapses months of iteration into hours — teams evaluate more architectures, ship correct-by-construction RTL sooner, and hit power, performance, and area targets on the first pass.

From serial to spherical

In ACI, the model is the design: specifications, RTL, tests, constraints, and PPA no longer live as disconnected artifacts but converge into a single living, evolving model — the connective tissue across every design abstraction. This collapses the traditional serial waterfall into a spherical workflow, where every abstraction evolves concurrently with omni-directional visibility. The result is one always-consistent source of truth — so the model isn’t a document about the chip, it is the chip.

Physics-informed foundation models“The Model is the Design”
AI-native workflows
Agent framework
Context & memory
Compute & inference
Proprietary data

The loop

A self-learning flywheel

See it in action

From requirements to RTL, in conversation

Alana describes what she needs; Cognichip weighs the architectures, recommends the most area-efficient one, and generates synthesizable RTL — live.

Start a new design

Measurable results at every stage

A detailed 55-page spec taken end to end by a single engineer — what used to run for weeks now lands in days.

Arch. Exploration

~5× faster · working days

Today
10 days
With ACI
2 days

RTL Design

~5× faster · working days

Today
10 days
With ACI
2 days

Testbenches & Debug

~7× faster · working days

Today
15 days
With ACI
2 days

UVM Closure

~20× faster · working days

Today
60 days
With ACI
3 days

One detailed 55-page specOne engineer20 weeks down to a few days

Microarchitecture spec, RTL, middleware, testbench authoring, functional closure, debug and finalize — all completed in a few days.

3x

Faster from concept to RTL

75%

Lower development cost

100+

Architecture variants evaluated

“Cognichip's ACI serves as the essential intelligence layer for the next-generation AI semiconductors. It is expected to reduce design costs by as much as 75% and cut timelines by 50%.”

— Yoshitaka Kitao, CEO, SBI Holdings

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Artificial Chip Intelligence ACI™ collapses months of engineering iteration into hours through its physics-informed foundation model, delivering optimized designs that meet power, performance, and area targets on the first pass.

Currently engaged with 30+ semiconductor companies, including many of the top 20 semiconductor leaders.

Start your next chip design with ACI

Go from requirements to optimized RTL in a fraction of the time.

Backed by $93M from Seligman, SBI, Mayfield, Lux Capital, and Candou Ventures