Silimate

Silimate builds AI agents for chip design and debug. The company's stated goal is to help frontend digital design teams reach their power, performance and area targets and fix functional bugs in days rather than months, shortening the road to tapeout. The product is aimed at teams designing SoCs and IP blocks. Silimate describes its approach as three parts working together: core engines that address the long runtimes of traditional electronic design automation tools, models that handle the gray areas those tools have not been able to automate, and interfaces that make the design experience smoother. Together these form a set of always on, autonomous agents that help a team understand the state of a design against its design intent and make the right changes faster. The two workflows the vendor highlights are optimization of register transfer level code toward power, performance and area goals, and root cause analysis and resolution of functional bugs. The company describes its customers as chip teams ranging from startups to large enterprises, licensed to build SoCs and IP. Silimate does not publish prices. Access starts with a demo request through the website, and licensing terms are arranged directly with the vendor.