From specification to tapeout — accelerated
Purpose-built AI agents that compress design cycles through automated RTL generation, formal verification, and pipeline-wide data analysis—reducing manual debug and functional verification time.
Our agents compress design cycles
Emergence's purpose-built agents automate RTL generation, formal verification, and pipeline-wide data analysis, ultimately reducing manual debug and functional verification time
Emergence agents
Problem Statement
Design & verification creates manufacturing bottlenecks, costing silicon, time, and competitive advantage
Our purpose-built agents tackle this challenge through automated RTL generation, formal verification, and pipeline-wide data analysis
14%
First-silicon success rate
Only 1 in 7 IC/ASIC projects achieve first-silicon success, meaning most chips require costly re-spins before they work as intended
60-70%
Engineering time in verification
Nearly half of that is pure manual labor — repetitive, error-prone work that AI agents can systematically automate at scale
75%
Projects behind schedule
3 of 4 projects miss their delivery targets, driven largely by unpredictable verification closure and debug cycles
2-4x
More verification engineers than design
Verification teams vastly outnumber design teams, reflecting a structural imbalance that Emergence directly addresses through agentic automation
End-to-end flow
From specification to tapeout
Emergence agents work across every stage of the chip design flow, from RTL through physical sign-off. Our agents automate verification, debug, and closure workflows with structured data artifacts flowing seamlessly between each stage.
Workflow
Specification & Architecture
RTL Design
Logic Synthesis
DFT Insertion
Floorplan & Placement
Clock Tree Synthesis
Routing
Physical Signoff
Tapeout
Built on domain fine-tuned models
Emergence agents are trained on semiconductor-specific data — not generic LLMs. They understand RTL semantics, timing constraints, and coverage models at a depth that enables real automation, not just assistance. Every artifact produced at each stage feeds forward into a unified knowledge layer, making downstream agents smarter with every run.
Data Fabric
Institutional memory captured through design artifacts
Each stage of the design flow generates critical artifacts, from RTL code and netlists to routed layouts and silicon measurements. Emergence aggregates all of it into a single, queryable fabric. This unified layer is what powers every agent across the pipeline. Emergence indexes and learns from your team's engineering knowledge to continually improve.
Design Intent
Specifications
Constraints
Assumptions
Assertions
Structure
RTL hierarchy
Netlists
Floorplans
Scan chains
Behavior
Waveforms
Coverage data
Timing paths
Activity factors
Outcomes
Failures and bugs
ECO history
Silicon yield
Field reliability
Institutional memory, systematically captured
Every debug session, every timing closure iteration, every waiver rationale — Emergence indexes and learns from your team's engineering knowledge, so insights are never lost when engineers move on.
Verification & debug agents
Purpose-built agents for every workflow
Each agent is trained on domain-specific semiconductor data and optimized for real engineering workflows — not generic AI with a thin veneer.
RTL Code Generation
Generate synthesizable RTL from specifications. Supports Verilog, SystemVerilog, and VHDL, with bestpractice coding patterns and parameterized templates.
Verilog | SystemVerilog | VHDL
Functional Verification
Automate UVM testbench generation, stimulus creation, and coverage closure. Identifies coverage holes and assemble in seconds, not hours.
UVM | Coverage | Testbench
Formal Verification
Generate and validate assertions automatically. Identifies unreachable states, proves properties, and finds counterexamples for logic bugs before simulation.
SVA | PSL | Assertions
Timing Closure Debug
Analyze timing violations, suggest ECO fixes, and track closure progress. Integrates with STA tools to automate critical path analysis and iteration.
STA | Setup/Hold | ECO
DRC / LVS Check
Automate design rule checking and layout vs schematic verification. Categorizes violations by severity and recommends resolution strategies ranked by impact.
DRC | LVS | ERC
Fault Coverage
Optimize ATPG patterns for maximum fault coverage. Analyzes untestable faults & recommends BIST improvements to meet automotive and safety-critical standards.
ATPG | Scan | BIST
From issue to resolution
Emergence doesn't just surface insights, it executes complete workflows with human-in-the-loop oversight at critical decision points, closing the loop from detection to verified fixes.
Human-in-the-loop: Engineers approve critical decisions. Emergence handles the tedious, leaving humans to steer the important
Closed-loop learning: Every resolved issue improves future triage accuracy and hypothesis quality across your entire design org
EDA tool integration: Native integrations with leading EDA tools. Fits into your existing flows; no rip-and-replace required
Triage
Automatically categorize and prioritize issues from regression runs, link, STA, or verification ranked by severity and timing impact.
1
Evidence
Gather relevant context: waveforms, prior bugs, design history, and related features and assemble in seconds,
not hours.
2
Hypothesis
Generate and rank hypotheses based on detected patterns specific to each node
3
Validation
Test hypotheses systematically against design constraints and historical data to
identify root cause.
4
Resolution
Propose targeted fixes with impact analysis, ready for engineer review and approval.