Early stage · v1.16.1

A semiconductor IP company, as software.

IP Nirmaan is an AI-native semiconductor IP company modeled as software: you give it a requirement, and a machine-readable organization plans, routes, reviews, and gates the work, with evidence behind every claim.

nirmaan plan
$ nirmaan plan "Create a 4-port AXI-to-NoC bridge."
 
PROJECT: Create a 4-port AXI-to-NoC bridge
Intent: new_ip   Features: axi, cdc, multi_port, noc, registers
Assumption: Clocking was not stated, so CDC/RDC work is planned conservatively.
 
PROGRAM MANAGER  Senior Technical Program Manager
├── Architecture  (lead: Chief Architect)
│   ├── Interface specification: AXI interface   owner: Senior AXI Interface Architect
│   ├── Microarchitecture                        owner: Staff NoC Microarchitect
│   └── GATE Architecture approval                owner: Chief Architect (human approval)
├── RTL  (lead: Director, RTL Engineering)
│   ├── RTL implementation: AXI slave interface  owner: Senior Interface Design Engineer
│   └── RTL implementation: Arbitration          owner: Senior Interconnect Design Engineer
├── Verification  (lead: VP, Verification)
│   ├── Verification plan                         owner: Senior Verification Planning Engineer
│   └── Coverage closure                          owner: Senior Functional Coverage Engineer
└── Signoff
    └── GATE Verification signoff                 owner: VP, Verification (human approval)
Real output of nirmaan plan, trimmed.

The idea

Engineering work, run by an organization you can read.

  • An organization, not a chatbot.

    Divisions, teams, and roles from intern to CEO, each with skills, authority, and an escalation path.

  • Planned is not done.

    Work moves through planned, executed, verified, and approved, and nothing skips a step.

  • Evidence or it did not happen.

    A tool run, a review, or a named person's sign-off backs every claim. An AI cannot mark its own work approved.

The assurance ladder Each rung needs its own evidence.
  1. planned A plan with an owner
  2. executed A recorded tool run
  3. verified An independent review
  4. approved A named human's sign-off

Refused An AI worker asking to approve its own work is turned away: nobody approves their own work.

How it works

From one sentence to routed, gated work.

Follow one requirement through the organization. Scroll to move it along.

  1. Requirement

    A plain-language request comes in. Nothing else is needed to start.

  2. Analyze

    Intent, features, and parameters are extracted. Anything left unstated becomes a written assumption, not a silent guess.

  3. Route to roles

    Each task goes to the role whose skills, capabilities, and authority fit it. Routing reads the organization as data.

  4. Review and gate

    Work is executed, then verified by an independent reviewer. Gates such as architecture approval wait for a named human.

  5. Deliverable

    The work product arrives with its trail: who did what, from which inputs, backed by which evidence.

Requirement Create a 4-port AXI-to-NoC bridge.

  • axi
  • noc
  • multi_port
  • cdc
  • registers

Assumption Clocking was not stated, so CDC work is planned conservatively.

  1. Interface specification: AXI Senior AXI Interface Architect verified
  2. Microarchitecture Staff NoC Microarchitect verified
  3. GATE Architecture approval Chief Architect (human) approved
  4. RTL: AXI slave interface Senior Interface Design Engineer verified
  5. RTL: Arbitration Senior Interconnect Design Engineer verified
  6. Verification plan Senior Verification Planning Engineer verified
  7. GATE Verification signoff VP, Verification (human) approved
Deliverable The work, with its trail of evidence.
Audit trail
Illustration of the rules every task moves under, using the plan above. It shows the flow, not delivered work: see Status below.

What the organization looks like

A whole company, defined as data.

  • 207organizational units
  • 685roles, from intern to CEO
  • 140engineering skills
  • 7engineering workflows
  • 12constitution principles
  • 42verification knowledge packs
  • 880automated tests
IP Nirmaan
  • Product
  • Architecture
  • Design Engineering
  • Verification
  • Silicon Implementation
  • Software
  • Security
  • Infrastructure
  • Documentation
  • Quality
Engineering, simplified. The model also has an executive office and business divisions, from finance and legal to sales.

The company constitution

Twelve principles the engine enforces.

  1. P1

    Traceability

    Every task traces to the requirement it serves.

  2. P2

    Evidence for decisions

    Important engineering decisions require evidence.

  3. P3

    Explicit uncertainty

    Agents must explicitly represent uncertainty.

  4. P4

    No fabricated work

    Agents must not fabricate completed work.

  5. P5

    No fabricated tool runs

    No claim that a tool ran unless it did.

  6. P6

    Independent review

    Critical work is reviewed. Nobody approves their own work.

  7. P7

    Conflicts escalate

    Conflicting outputs are escalated before approval.

  8. P8

    Provenance

    Every change records who, what, and from which inputs.

  9. P9

    Evidence for signoff

    Signoff requires evidence.

  10. P10

    No hidden state changes

    Every change goes through the engine and the audit trail.

  11. P11

    Auditability

    The audit trail is append-only and hash-chained.

  12. P12

    Human approval at gates

    Gates can require a human to approve.

Built on VeriTriage

The verification engine inside.

VeriTriage is the verification-intelligence engine inside IP Nirmaan. It turns simulation logs, coverage, and waveforms into an evidence graph and a ranked, evidence-backed root cause.

When IP Nirmaan triages a regression, VeriTriage does the investigation, and its results become evidence in the task.

Illustration: simulation logs, coverage, and waveforms feed an evidence graph, which ranks root-cause hypotheses. sim log coverage waveform ev ev #1 cause3 links #2 cause1 link
Illustration, not real output.

Status and roadmap

Early, open, and honest about it.

Working today

The organization model, planning, routing, reviews, gates, the audit trail, and real VeriTriage investigations.

Next

AI workers in verification roles, then connections to open-source design tools, then design and RTL agents.

Not yet

No chip or IP block has been designed or delivered by the system.