VLSI and SoC design
Custom chip design from RTL to GDSII, with power, performance, and area targets set at architecture time and tracked through sign-off.
ArqonixGen Semiconductor Pvt Ltd
ArqonixGen Semiconductor is a fabless chip design company based in Bengaluru. We work across the full design flow, from architecture and RTL through verification, physical design, and sign-off, and we bring the same discipline to the AI systems that run on that silicon.
Hardware and software are designed together from the start. That is how efficiency that neither side can reach alone gets built into the chip rather than bolted on afterwards.
What we do
From tape-out to deployed models, each capability is staffed and tooled as part of a single flow rather than as a separate practice.
Custom chip design from RTL to GDSII, with power, performance, and area targets set at architecture time and tracked through sign-off.
Purpose-built neural processing units and accelerators, designed around the workloads they will run and the power envelope they must fit.
Inference engines optimized for constrained devices, so real-time AI runs locally without a dependency on the cloud.
End-to-end machine learning pipelines: data engineering, training, optimization, and production deployment.
Hardware root of trust, secure enclaves, and cryptographic accelerators integrated at the silicon level.
Functional verification with UVM, formal methods, coverage closure, and AI-assisted test generation to catch issues before silicon.
Deployment targets
The same design flow serves three very different power and latency envelopes. Each one pushes back on the architecture in its own way.
01 · Data center
At rack scale the limit is rarely the transistor. It is the power and cooling budget, the memory bandwidth feeding each accelerator, and the fabric between them. That is the class of system our AI chip architecture and security IP work is aimed at.
02 · AI systems
A multiply-accumulate array is easy to draw and hard to keep fed. Stalls come from the memory hierarchy and the schedule, not the arithmetic, so we shape the datapath, the on-die memory and the compiler together rather than in sequence.
03 · Robotics and edge
When a machine is moving, a late answer is a wrong answer. The loop has to close on the device, within a fixed time budget and a few watts, which is what drives quantization, scheduling and the accelerator design long before tape-out.
We own the stack from transistor-level design to deployed AI services. That removes integration friction between teams that usually never meet, and it shortens the path from concept to product.
Why ArqonixGen
Our AI architectures are co-designed with the hardware from day one. The model, the compiler, and the datapath are shaped together, not negotiated after the fact.
We follow current research closely and translate what holds up into production-ready silicon and AI systems, with the engineering rigor that tape-out demands.
One team spans RTL, verification, physical design, firmware, and ML deployment. Fewer handoffs means fewer surprises late in the schedule.
How we work
Every engagement runs through the same four stages. Targets are set early, verified continuously, and carried through to deployment.
We work through your requirements, define performance targets and power budgets, and choose the architecture that fits the use case.
RTL development, AI model development, and co-simulation validate the hardware and software interface at the earliest possible stage.
Functional coverage closure, timing closure, and DRC and LVS sign-off, supported by AI-driven test generation.
Tape-out or cloud deployment, followed by monitoring, model refinement, and iterative performance work after launch.
Design flow and tooling
| Domain | Languages and standards | Tools and frameworks |
|---|---|---|
| Front-end design | SystemVerilog, RISC-V ISA | Synopsys Design Compiler, OpenROAD |
| Verification | SystemVerilog, UVM | Questa Sim, formal and emulation flows |
| Physical design and sign-off | GDSII, DRC and LVS | Cadence Virtuoso, Mentor Calibre |
| AI and ML | ONNX | PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, ONNX Runtime |
| Cloud deployment | MLOps pipelines | AWS Nitro |
Tool names are the property of their respective owners and are listed to describe the flows we work in.
Browser sandbox for a small neural net. Add layers, swap activations, move the learning rate, and watch the decision boundary redraw as it trains.
OpenA machine learning textbook where the algorithms animate — gradient descent, backpropagation, and diffusion models with interactive controls.
OpenWatch signals propagate through a network architecture, with interactive linear regression, classification, and CNN views.
OpenThe same sandbox preloaded with the hardest built-in classification problem. Trying to solve it is the quickest way to feel why depth helps.
OpenA GPT model rendered in 3D. Follow a single token through embeddings, attention layers, and MLP blocks at your own pace.
OpenType a prompt into a live GPT-2 and see tokenization, attention weights, and next-token prediction. Hover a matrix to see the arithmetic.
OpenJay Alammar's diagram-led walkthrough of the architecture — the standard companion piece to the original attention paper.
OpenThe follow-up post: how a decoder-only model actually generates text, one step at a time. Read it after the transformer piece.
OpenAttention patterns from real transformer models across many inputs, showing how individual heads specialise on syntax or meaning.
OpenA notebook-based attention viewer for BERT, GPT-2, and friends. Paste any sentence and inspect the heads that fire on it.
OpenA live image classifier you can click into layer by layer to inspect feature maps, filters, and activations.
OpenCompare how VGG, ResNet, and MobileNet extract features from the same images, and see which neurons respond to which patterns.
OpenConvolution made concrete: drag kernels over an image and watch edge detection, blurring, and sharpening happen in the browser.
OpenPretrained models such as LeNet, AlexNet, and YOLO drawn in 3D, so you can rotate the stack and follow an input through every layer.
OpenBrown University's animated course in probability and statistics — Bayesian inference, regression, and distributions, all interactive.
OpenSmall, self-contained demos for PCA, eigenvectors, Markov chains, and conditional probability.
OpenResearch articles built around interactive figures, covering feature visualisation, what networks see, and AutoML.
OpenGradient descent traced across a loss landscape, with SGD, momentum, and Adam side by side so the differences are visible.
OpenPlace your own training points, then watch KNN, SVM, decision trees, perceptrons, and neural nets each draw a decision boundary over them.
OpenR2D3's scrolling story of a decision tree learning to tell San Francisco homes from New York ones. The best first thing to read.
OpenPart two of the same series: why a deeper tree overfits, shown happening rather than asserted.
OpenDrop your own centroids and step the algorithm to convergence. Overlapping clusters make for instructive failures.
OpenDensity-based clustering, stepped through — and a clear look at the odd cluster shapes K-means cannot handle.
OpenTrain a generative adversarial network in the browser and watch the generator and discriminator compete, with live loss curves.
OpenStable Diffusion turning noise into an image, one denoising step at a time, with the prompt and guidance scale under your control.
OpenHigh-dimensional embeddings projected into 3D. Load Word2Vec or GloVe vectors and search, rotate, and zoom through the clusters.
OpenAndrej Karpathy's reinforcement learning demos: an agent learning to cross a gridworld under Q-learning, SARSA, or policy gradients.
OpenOpen an .onnx, .h5, .pth, or .tflite file and read the whole architecture as an interactive graph. Useful for any model you did not write.
OpenReading list compiled from a public roundup shared by @rishitlalan_16. Descriptions and diagrams here are our own; each site belongs to its respective author.
Work with us
Tell us what you are building. We will come back with an honest view of the architecture, the schedule, and where the risk sits.