SILICOSHIFT

Your RTL's clean. Synth passes.

But you're stuck in Cadence purgatory

DRC rules missing. PDK locked behind three NDAs. Layout guy's in Bali.

Result? Six weeks before you see a post-route timing report.

That dies today.

RTL → GDSII

40 seconds

No human touch. No sign-off chain. Just shift.

2s
Yosys Synthesis
40s
Full Layout (10k gates)
5m
Blackwell-Scale Die

The Old Way vs. SilicoShift

Traditional EDA Flow

The status quo

  • 6 weeks to first post-route timing
  • PDK locked behind NDAs
  • Missing DRC rules
  • Manual routing adjustments
  • $500k+ annual licenses
  • Layout engineer on vacation
  • Spreadsheet yield calculations

SilicoShift Flow

The new standard

  • 40 seconds to GDSII
  • Open PDKs + your S3 bucket
  • Auto-generated from process
  • TritonRoute auto-routing
  • $40/month + GPU burst
  • Fully automated pipeline
  • Live Monte-Carlo yield prediction
1000x
Faster
12,500x
Cheaper
0
Human Touch

Three things. Fast.

No BS. No bloat. Just shift.

01

Front-end Ingest

Sub-2 second synthesis

Drop a .v, .sv, or plain SystemVerilog with UPF annotations. We rip it through Yosys in under 2 seconds.

Input
Logic nets, clock trees, power domains
Output
Hierarchical LEF/DEF

Backend injects your target process:

TSMC N4P5nm3nmSkyWater 130nm

Want closed PDKs? We proxy via your own AWS S3 bucket. Keys stay with you. Zero data leaks.

02

Layout Generation

Real tools, real results

We don't fake it. Hammer 1.4 + OpenROAD 2.3 run in a Docker swarm.

Floorplan
Auto-generates from macro placement hints. Tap the canvas, drag blocks, we pin them.
Routing
TritonRoute for global + detail, with pin density throttling
Power Analysis
OpenDB IR drop calculator: 0.3mV worst-case at full toggle
cuLitho Sim
H100 burst: 200x faster than Synopsys PrimeTime for mask exposure
40s
10k-gate block
5m
Blackwell-scale die

We cache intermediate streams. Next iteration loads from checkpoint, not cold start.

03

Yield & Cost Oracle

No spreadsheets. One number.

Live Monte-Carlo on defect maps. Real predictions, real costs.

67%
Worst
71%
Typical
73%
Best
Based on anonymized SkyWater 130nm logs, scaled to TSMC via Bayesian transfer

Real cost per die

If yield sucks (67%)
$29,700
If yield rocks (73%)
$12,100
@ $4,200 full reticle (5nm)

Shift button sends GDSII to your foundry queue. No human touch. No sign-off chain. Done.

Cost Oracle

Live yield prediction. Real numbers.

10k
1k1M
$4.2k
$1k$10k

Predicted Yield (Monte-Carlo)

Worst
75.0%
Typical
80.0%
Best
82.0%

Effective Cost per Die

If worst
$5.6k
If typical
$5.3k
If best
$5.1k

Based on anonymized SkyWater 130nm fab data, scaled to TSMC via Bayesian transfer learning

Under the Hood

Everything containerized. No lock-in.

Core Tools

SynthesisYosys 0.36+
PnR FrameworkHammer 1.4
Layout EngineOpenROAD 2.3
RoutingTritonRoute
IR AnalysisOpenDB
Litho SimcuLitho (H100)

Supported PDKs

SkyWater 130nmTSMC N4PTSMC 5nmTSMC 3nmYour S3 bucket

Closed PDKs proxy via your AWS S3. Keys never leave your infra.

Infrastructure

Orchestration
Kubernetes on bare metal
Hetzner AX41 × 3 nodes
Compute
CPU-heavy on-prem
AMD EPYC 7502P (32c/64t)
GPU Burst
Lambda Labs on-demand
H100 @ $1.20/hour (cuLitho only)
Storage
Your S3 + checkpoint cache
Zero persistent state on our side

Deployment Options

Cloud (default)
On-prem (Helm chart)
EU data residency (Frankfurt)
Your Jenkins integration

Flow Architecture

RTL (.v/.sv)
Yosys (2s)
Hammer + OpenROAD
TritonRoute
GDSII

Checkpointed every stage. Iterate from last good state.

Pricing

No fat-cat licenses. Pay for power, not silence.

Hobby

$0
forever
  • 10k gates max
  • SkyWater 130nm only
  • 5 shifts/month
  • Community support
POPULAR

Pro

$40
per month + GPU burst
  • Unlimited gates
  • All open PDKs + S3 proxy
  • Unlimited shifts
  • H100 @ $1.20/hour (on-demand)
  • Email support

Enterprise

Custom
let's talk
  • On-prem deployment
  • EU data residency
  • Jenkins integration
  • Dedicated H100 cluster
  • SLA + priority support

No hidden fees. No per-user licensing. No vendor lock-in.
Cancel anytime. Export your data anytime. Your keys, your S3, your silicon.

Ready to Shift?

Tomorrow morning, your block shifts.

Not next quarter. Now.

Join the waitlist. First 100 get lifetime Pro for free.

2s
Synthesis
40s
Layout
$40
Per month
0
Lock-in

We're not another EDA fat-cat.

We're the last mile—the forty-second mile.