Silicode — AI chip design and Verilog generation
Silicode turns a plain description of hardware behaviour into production-ready Verilog. It is the IDO platform for teams that need a custom digital chip or FPGA design without hiring a dedicated RTL team.
- Line Engineer
- FPGA / RTL Engineer — Verilog, SystemVerilog
- Operators / Junior Engineers
- Junior HDL writers running testbenches and lint
- Tools
- VivadoQuartusModelSimVerilatorSynopsys VCS
From intent to RTL
You describe the interfaces, timing, and behaviour you need — a keycard reader state machine, a sensor pipeline, a bus bridge. Silicode produces synthesizable RTL with a matching testbench, so the first thing you review is running code, not a specification document.
- Synthesizable Verilog / SystemVerilog output
- Generated testbenches and assertions
- Timing and resource targets stated up front, checked on every run
- Re-runs on spec change instead of manual rework
Where it fits
Silicode is aimed at product teams shipping hardware, not at silicon research. It covers digital logic that would otherwise take a specialist engineer weeks: control state machines, protocol adapters, data-path blocks, and glue logic between off-the-shelf IP.
Why the traditional route is slow
A custom digital block traditionally travels through three layers: a senior engineer who owns the architecture, an RTL specialist who writes the Verilog, and junior engineers who run the simulation loop. Every layer is a translation step, and every translation step is where intent gets lost. Silicode collapses the lower two layers into the platform and leaves the architecture with you.
A security company needs a custom chip for smart locks
A company sells smart locks to office buildings. Each lock needs an internal chip to read keycards, check permissions, and log entries. Off-the-shelf parts are too slow — employees wait seconds at the door — and the supplier keeps raising prices. Designing a custom digital block traditionally takes four to six months with a specialist engineer. With Silicode, the team describes how the lock should behave and reviews synthesizable RTL in days.
Common questions
Does Silicode replace an FPGA engineer?
It replaces the RTL-writing and simulation-running layers. You still own the architecture, the constraints, and the sign-off — the platform handles the implementation loop underneath.
What output do I actually get?
Synthesizable Verilog or SystemVerilog with a matching testbench, ready to take into Vivado, Quartus, or your own synthesis flow.
Is it for ASICs or FPGAs?
The generated RTL targets FPGA flows first. ASIC-bound designs are supported at the RTL level, with the back-end flow staying in your own toolchain.
Talk to an engineer about Silicode
Tell us what the hardware needs to do and what is blocking you today. An IDO engineer will scope the fastest path from behaviour to RTL.
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