{"id":92212,"title":"SigmanticAI - The Cursor for Hardware Design","tagline":"Suite of AI Agents and Tools to Accelerate HDL (Hardware Description Language) Design","body":"Hey YC! We're Tamzid and Rohil from [SigmanticAI](https://www.sigmanticai.com/).\n\n**The Problem with Creating Custom Hardware**\n\n* HDL tooling hasn’t changed much since the '90s: still slow, manual, and fragmented\n* Debugging eats up majority of hardware dev time\n* There's no seamless AI-native experience for building and reasoning about HDL\n\n---\n\n**Our Solution**\n\n_SigmanticAI_. What it can do:\n\n* **Natural language to synthesizable Verilog + testbenches**\n* **RL-driven debugging** loop\n* Built-in **onboarding**, codebase **annotation**, and **spec** documentation **generation**\n* LLM-powered on both **cloud** and **fully air-gapped/on-prem** deployments\n* **Seameless** integration with **VScode** + your **existing synthesis tools** from Cadence, Synopsys, etc.\n\nWe’ve already made a RISCV CPU start to finish with it, onboarded our first paying customer, and are getting 90%+ accuracy on the VerilogEval benchmark (NVIDIA framework)\n\n---\n\n**Demo video\\\n[https://youtu.be/Cq3hpMflIA8](https://youtu.be/Cq3hpMflIA8)**\n\n---\n\n**Asks!**\n\n* We want to talk to:\n  * Anyone **working** **with** **FPGAs, custom chips, ML accelerators, or RISC-V** cores\n  * Anyone **working in EDA** \n  * Anyone **working with fine tuned LLMs for hardware**\n* **Try us out! Thank you!**\n  * [https://www.sigmanticai.com](https://www.sigmanticai.com%EF%BF%BC%EF%BF%BC)\n\n**Who We Are**\n\nWe’ve spent years working on both LLMs and hardware. After working at Apple (Tamzid) and Amazon (Rohil) and research in FPGA mapping and LLaMA fine-tuning, we realized the real bottleneck in hardware design is tooling. We’ve built custom CPUs, worked with EDA stacks, and experienced the pain firsthand. Conversations with engineers at Northrop Grumman, SciEngines, and Quadric made it clear: hardware desperately needs a smarter workflow.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=92212\u0026key=user_uploads/2407642/74a5aa7d-62e0-47f9-9e95-9bc55e7c49f1)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=92212\u0026key=user_uploads/2407642/85c5143a-36c1-43aa-84ed-eebdfd014498)\n\n","slug":"NzI-sigmanticai-the-cursor-for-hardware-design","created_at":"2025-07-16T19:05:10.461Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T01:23:09.646Z","total_vote_count":49,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/NzI-sigmanticai-the-cursor-for-hardware-design","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=92212\u0026key=user_uploads/2407642/85c5143a-36c1-43aa-84ed-eebdfd014498","company":{"id":30744,"name":"SigmanticAI","slug":"sigmanticai","url":"https://www.sigmanticai.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/551c81e2cf1198e6431c7a170e74ee43deff6f61.png","batch":"Summer 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Hard Tech","Hardware","B2B","AI","AI Assistant"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/30744"}}