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Three settings where the agent pipeline creates measurable value.
A four-person team reaches first tape-out at 16nm.
An early-stage startup built a custom AI inference accelerator for first production silicon at 16nm. Its team had two RTL engineers, one firmware engineer, and a CEO with P&R background, but no dedicated PD hire. The tape-out window was at risk before P&R.
- End-to-end place-and-route through Layout Agent
- 12 DRC iterations on logic blocks
- LVS discrepancy detection with root-cause notes
- Timing closure on 2 GHz target path
- Refine Agent auto-closed 94% of DRC violations
- Floorplan and power-domain strategy decisions
- The 6% of violations needing human judgment
- Foundry interface and PDK rule interpretation
- IP block integration decisions
Parallel ECO flows for three concurrent designs.
An ASIC product team at a hardware company was managing three concurrent tape-out projects across different process nodes with four PD engineers. After functional verification, ECO cycles were consuming a disproportionate amount of PD capacity, creating a bottleneck across all three schedules at once.
- Architect Pro set up for 3 concurrent projects
- Custom escalation routing sent Verify findings to each design's PD lead
- Audit log added to the team's existing review process
- Architect ran alongside existing EDA licenses, not replacing them
- ECO closure loops automated on all three designs
- PD engineers reviewed Refine Agent escalations instead of making routine fixes
- All three tape-out targets met without adding PD headcount
Custom SoC with unusual PDK constraints.
A hardware company developing a custom SoC for a specific industrial customer faced non-standard PDK constraints from its foundry partner and a tight schedule tied to a customer commitment. Standard EDA flow automation did not support the rule deck requirements.
- Custom PDK rule deck binding via Enterprise config
- Violation severity thresholds tailored to customer spec
- Custom escalation routing with a customer review gate
- Structured handoff format for tape-out partner
- Architect's rule-deck config handled unusual constraints
- Tape-out partner got structured handoff, not raw DEF
- Delivery commitment met on schedule
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