Nativechips offers an AI‑driven cloud platform that autonomously designs, verifies, and delivers optimized silicon chips from natural‑language or technical specifications. The service provides a SaaS workflow for rapid prototyping, a Chip‑as‑a‑Service model to order custom chips on development boards, and an on‑prem enterprise stack for secure, private chip creation, delivering up to 8× faster time‑to‑market and 80% cost reduction.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Designing custom silicon traditionally requires extensive manual effort, specialized expertise, and lengthy verification cycles, which delays product launches and inflates development costs for hardware creators.
Solution
Nativechips offers an AI-driven cloud platform that automates the entire chip design workflow—from interpreting natural‑language or GUI specifications to generating RTL, performing place‑and‑route, and conducting silicon‑grade verification. The system integrates with foundry pipelines to produce production‑ready layouts, enabling developers to obtain fabricated prototypes or scale to high‑volume production without deep EDA expertise. For organizations with strict security or proprietary IP requirements, the platform can be deployed on‑premise, providing a private AI‑EDA stack with full control over the design environment. Throughout the process, AI decisions are logged and explainable, allowing users to audit and understand each design choice.
Target Audience
Primary customers include startups, SMB hardware teams, product creators, and research groups needing rapid custom silicon, as well as semiconductor OEMs, defense contractors, and enterprises requiring secure, on‑premise chip design capabilities.
Features
- Natural‑language and graphical interface for specifying chip requirements, reducing the need for detailed hardware description knowledge
- Autonomous RTL generation, placement, routing, and timing optimization performed by AI agents
- Integrated silicon‑grade verification using CocoTB, PyUVM unit tests, and coverage analysis to ensure production readiness
- Cloud simulation and verification environment with seamless foundry pipeline integration for rapid prototyping
- Chip‑as‑a‑Service offering that delivers fabricated prototypes on development boards and supports scaling to millions of units
- On‑premise enterprise deployment of the full AI‑EDA stack, enabling secure use of proprietary IP and custom PDKs with premium support and SLAs