A vendor-neutral, hardware-agnostic platform that orchestrates the full design lifecycle — from RTL through verification and physical design to deployment on real silicon. Not a point agent. Not a bolt-on. The operating system.
Foundries execute manufacturing at world-class scale. The bottleneck has shifted upstream: architecture-to-signoff workflows are fragmented, manual, and too slow for AI-era demand.
Verification remains the largest design undertaking in modern SoCs and frequently dominates schedules.
Advanced-node design costs run into hundreds of millions, increasing pressure for first-pass success.
U.S. semiconductor labor demand outpaces supply, with a projected shortfall of ~67k roles by 2030.
Hyperscalers and AI infrastructure leaders are committing unprecedented capital to compute. That accelerates custom-silicon demand and makes design-cycle automation mission-critical.
Semiconductor-first workspace for RTL, verification, physical design scripting, and review loops.
Model routing across cloud and on-prem providers, plus workflow agents orchestrated per design stage.
Private RAG, auditable actions, and self-host controls for IP-sensitive organizations.
ChipOS orchestrates the full design loop before tapeout. Manufacturing stays with foundries — we own the agentic layer above it.
test-reports/dashboard/data.json and route/tool scans in chipos-acf/python/src/server (local repo snapshot).
Global semiconductor revenue (2025), projecting toward ~$1T in 2026.
EDA + SIP + services — $5.566B in Q3 2025, annualized run-rate.
AI silicon design teams with security constraints and large verification burdens. 5-year target.
Axelera AI uses ChipOS workflows for one-shot pipeline implementation and deployment to accelerator cards.
Hyperscalers, fabless AI silicon teams, and semiconductor platform companies managing large RTL + verification programs.
ChipAgents ($74M, Bessemer) and Chipmind ($2.5M) solve individual stages — RTL or verification. No orchestration layer, no deployment pipeline.
Cadence ChipStack and Synopsys AgentEngineer require their own tool stacks. Design teams locked to one vendor cannot adopt best-of-breed AI.
Only vendor-neutral platform spanning design → verification → deployment. MCP-native, self-hostable, works with any EDA toolchain.
Start in verification or RTL productivity pain points with measurable cycle-time wins.
Roll out into physical-design scripting, signoff loops, and shared enterprise knowledge surfaces.
Make ChipOS the default agentic OS across teams and geographies — the way Git became default for source control.
Stabilize deployment flows and enterprise controls for design-team onboarding.
Convert design partners into paid pilots with cycle-time ROI tracking.
Coverage-closure assistants and autonomous test generation loops.
Multi-team rollouts, deeper physical-design scripting automation, SOC2 path.
10 years in silicon verification across Intel (Habana AI), ISRO, and Axelera AI. Led verification signoff for AI accelerators, RISC-V vector CPUs, PCIe/USB SerDes PHYs across multiple tapeouts with working silicon. Now building the tools he wished existed.
Current dual role: Founder @ FutureAtoms + GenAI @ Axelera AI
MD, Community Medicine — AIIMS Delhi & Safdarjung Hospital. MBBS, AIIMS Bhopal. Former Regional Medical Officer across multiple districts. NTSE Scholar. Nationally recognized for leadership in public health reform.
Strategic advisor: operational leadership, scale-up across distributed systems, and governance perspective.
Built verification environments, not just coding assistants. Understands where chip teams lose time: coverage closure, debug loops, signoff churn.
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Target outcomes: 3–5 paid enterprise pilots, repeatable land-and-expand motion, and a durable platform moat as the agentic OS category winner.