Firmware ready when the silicon is.
The oldest chip-program failure: silicon slips, firmware keeps working to the old date, then silicon arrives and the team is mid-sprint on something else. Tymeline holds both to one date. When silicon moves, firmware is re-planned the same hour, so the team is ready the day the chips arrive.
Reading the branches…
The gap between silicon and firmware
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~75%
of chip projects late
Siemens / Wilson Research 2024
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2–4 weeks
before a silicon slip reaches the firmware plan today
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Dozens
of AI coding agents in a typical firmware org, none reporting to one date
The hard problems it solves on a firmware program.
Not reports on them. The fix, worked out, approved and carried out.
- The samples date moves
- Every dependent firmware milestone moves with it. The sprint is rebuilt so work that needs silicon moves back and the rest moves forward. On approval, Jira and the coding agents' queues are updated.
- AI coding agents are writing part of the release
- Every agent has an identity and a scope. A change outside it is held at the merge and routed to the code owner, the dependent work is re-planned, and every commit is signed.
- The customer's SDK date cannot move
- Customer milestones sit in the same record. When a change upstream would push the SDK beta, Tymeline moves tasks to hold it, and drafts the customer note only if it cannot.
- Bring-up starts before the silicon exists
- Emulator and FPGA milestones are commitments like any other, read from your CI and bug tracker, and re-planned with everything else when a date moves.
One bring-up, end to end
A 14-week window to samples. Twelve engineers and three AI Employees.
- Plan
The firmware plan is aligned to the silicon date. Three dependency risks surfaced. The firmware lead approves.
- Build
PRs merge under CODEOWNERS. Every agent commit is signed.
- Samples +11 days
The hour the foundry email lands, the bring-up sprint is re-sequenced and the SDK beta date flagged. The lead approves with MFA.
- Bring-up
Firmware is on the bench the day samples arrive. The audit is exported. The retro is written from the record.
Every agent, governed.
A real identity
Each agent is a named service identity in your IdP. No shared accounts.
A fixed scope
Scoped credentials per agent. Least privilege by default.
A named approver
Every decision is a signed record with a named approver, MFA-verified.
A kill switch
One command suspends an agent everywhere, with its history kept.