Tymeline runs your silicon program.
Tymeline sees trouble coming on every commitment your date depends on, and clears it while it is still small. Your date does not move.
- RTL freeze
- Supplier IP
- Verification
- Timing closure
- Firmware
Nothing is waiting for you.
Fix readyRun timing in parallel
Approvedby VP Engineering
Five commitments. One tape-out date.
Why silicon programs slip
Not because the engineering is hard. Because nobody can see the whole program at once — and the slip is found two weeks late, in a review, after the cheap fixes are gone.
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14%
first-silicon success rate, a 20-year low
Siemens / Wilson Research Group, 2024
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~75%
chip projects behind their original schedule
Same study
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1–2 weeks
typical gap between a slip and the leadership team knowing
The program as it is. Not as it was reported.
A status report is what people remembered to type, a week ago. Tymeline reads the regression runs, the timing reports, the tickets, the test datalogs and the supplier's email, and holds every commitment against its evidence. A milestone isn't done because someone said so. It's done when the evidence says so.
Every commitment, held to one date.
The record
Every commitment, who owns it — human or agent — when it was promised, and whether it is true right now. Pulled from the tools, not from status slides.
The alarm
The drift the hour it starts, with what it would break downstream: verification closing late, firmware blocked, sample date at risk. Owners know while it can still be fixed, not at the review.
The hands
AI Employees chase the owner, propose the re-plan, update downstream and draft the customer note — inside a fence you set. Humans approve what's outside it.
The memory
Not an event log. A causal record: what drifted, why, what was done about it, who approved it, and whether it worked. A post-mortem written in real time — and the next program starts with it.
Authority is earned, one kind of action at a time.
You decide what Tymeline may do on its own, what needs a named approver, and what it may never do. It starts by watching.
- Observe
It reconciles your tools and shows the program as it is. People do everything else.
- Diagnose
It names the cause of every drift, with the evidence.
- Recommend
It proposes the least-cost repair, with the impact quantified. You approve or reject each one.
- Act
It carries out the kinds of action you've approved — chase an owner, re-sequence a sprint, request evidence — and sends you the receipt.
The fence is set per program and per kind of action. Let it chase evidence on its own and still approve every staffing change. No AI Employee approves a tape-out gate. Ever.
Three kinds of silicon program. One layer that runs them all.
The vocabulary differs between a tape-out, a beta tool and a customer qual. The failure mode is the same: a date nobody could see slipping.
- Chip programs
- Spec to tape-out to samples to qual. The alarm: a coverage slope, a late ECO, an IP vendor, a shuttle move.
- Firmware & software programs
- Firmware ready when the silicon is. The alarm: the silicon date moved and the firmware plan didn't.
- Equipment & tool programs
- Hardware, process, firmware and software landing together at the beta tool. The alarm: a long-lead part, a chamber supplier, software behind hardware.
- Qualification & ramp programs
- Every customer qual held to the customer's sign-off date. The alarm: a missed milestone the customer hasn't heard about yet.
A named teammate in your program. Not a chatbot.
A chat session starts from zero every time. An AI Employee has been in the program since kickoff, and it does real work: triaging failures, isolating flaky tests, assembling review packets, chasing owners, drafting the re-plan.
- AriaRTL
- VelaVerification
- SoraFirmware & integration
- PhinPhysical design
- OrinProgram operations
What changes when the date holds.
The schedule stops moving
Drift is caught while it can still be fixed, so the date — and the revenue behind it — stays where you committed it.
The expensive failures don't happen
A re-spin, a missed insertion window, a lost qual: each starts as a small change somebody could have seen.
Engineers get their time back
Not only from status meetings. The triage, the chasing and the re-planning are done for them.
Every program starts smarter
What slipped and what fixed it is kept, so the next program is warned when the pattern returns.
Runs where your program has to.
Tymeline Cloud
Live in about two weeks.
Your VPC
Your network, your keys. Two to three weeks.
Patrick
A sealed appliance inside your walls. Four to six weeks.
Every AI Employee action is identity-anchored, scope-bounded and signed. Your program data is never used to train a model that leaves your tenant.