Chips, designed
at Texas.

First student silicon team at UT Austin, designing an AI inference accelerator targeting TSMC 16nm.

Supported by

Silicon is the new frontier. We're training people who'll shape it.

Flagship

Introducing Lambda.

Longhorn Accelerator for Matrix-Based Dataflow & Attention. Powering AI models up to 1.5B parameters

Tapeout

Built for real silicon.

Targeting tapeout via the TSMC University FinFET Program with imec.

FRONTEND

SystemVerilog · Formal

Backend

Cadence · Synopsys

Nodes

TSMC 16nm

Vision

01
Architecture
Workload analysis, microarchitecture, and the PPA tradeoffs behind every block.
02
RTL Design
SystemVerilog implementation of the compute datapath, memory hierarchy, and interfaces.
03
Design Verification
Testbenches, coverage closure, and formal proofs against the specification.
04
Physical Design
Synthesis through place-and-route, with timing, DRC, and LVS signoff.

We're looking for intrinsically motivated, intelligent students, plus industry partners and faculty willing to support.