Tymeline runs your chip program.
From spec to tape-out to samples to qual — every commitment held to the date, and trouble cleared while it is still small, before it can reach tape-out.
Reading sign-off from the tools…
One missed hand-off. One re-spin. A quarter gone.
Most slips aren't engineering failures. They're a coverage curve that flattened three weeks ago, an IP vendor's email nobody connected to RTL freeze, firmware still planned against the old silicon date.
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14%
first-silicon success, a 20-year low
Siemens / Wilson Research 2024
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~75%
of chip projects late
Same study
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$5–30M
for a mask set at 7nm–3nm, plus 3–6 months of the whole team
Industry consensus, multiple foundry data
Your engineers stay on the silicon. Tymeline holds the program to its date.
The record
Every milestone — RTL freeze, coverage closure, timing closure, tape-out, samples, qual — with an owner and a date, read from Perforce, your EDA tools, Jira and the foundry's own emails.
The alarm
When the coverage slope no longer reaches the date, when an ECO lands late, when the IP vendor or the foundry moves — the owners know that hour, with the downstream chain and the fix, while there is still slack to use.
The hands
AI Employees work out the recovery, line up the people and the runs, re-sequence the plan and draft the escalation. You approve; they carry it out. No AI Employee approves a tape-out gate. Ever. That is policy, enforced at runtime.
The memory
Every baseline and re-baseline kept with a named approver. The next program starts knowing what slipped on this one and what fixed it.
The hard problems it solves on a chip program.
Not reports on them. The fix, worked out, approved and carried out.
- A supplier's IP slips four weeks
- Tymeline traces it through every block, models three recoveries against the real plan, and has the one that saves all 11 days approved and running in Jira within minutes. Tape-out stays on its date.
- Verification is falling behind
- The gap is measured while it is still small. Tymeline finds two engineers on a block that finished early, drafts the loan, and re-plans the regressions once it is approved. The freeze holds.
- The tape-out gate is on Friday
- Readiness is read from the tools. The two blocking owners are paged, the missing corner runs are lined up, and the go or no-go packet reaches the approver before the review.
- Two programs need the same team
- Both plans are read against real capacity, weeks ahead. Tymeline models the options, recommends the one where both dates hold, and makes the reassignment once both owners agree.
- The last program slipped
- Tymeline replays the decision trail, finds the real cause, and turns it into a rule the next program is held to.
The rituals you trust are the rituals that govern.
Stand-ups, design reviews, bug triage, change boards and tape-out gates stay exactly as they are. The packet is assembled before anyone arrives. The decision stays human.
“Engineers don't have to learn a new way to work. The AI Employee learns yours.”
How Tymeline fits a design team
Every silicon team. One record.
Ten teams. Ten AI Employees. Forty-plus pre-built patterns, RTL to post-silicon.
- AriaRTL design
- VelaVerification
- DaxDFT
- PhinPhysical design
- AnaAnalog & mixed-signal
- SoraIntegration & firmware
- MiraVIP & methodology
- PaxPackaging
- PosiPost-silicon
- OrinProgram operations
Your RTL never leaves. Neither does the decision record.
Tymeline works on program signals — tickets, regression results, timing reports, milestones, messages — not on design files. Every action is signed and exportable to your SIEM. For advanced-node and ITAR floors, Patrick runs the entire platform inside your walls.