Design chips — not orchestrate tools

EDA has become a tool-management problem. Vyges gives your team one interface — driven by any AI model — so engineers work on the chip, not on a dozen tool dialects.

AI is collapsing the value of tool expertise. Here's what that changes.

A silicon team is staffed around tools

Every sign-off tool speaks its own dialect — its runsets, its quirks, its decades of accumulated flags. So teams are hired as a PrimeTime person, a Calibre person, an Innovus person — specialists in a tool, not in the chip. The expertise that gets bought and priced is "can you drive this tool," not "can you close this chip."

PrimeTime Innovus ICC2 Calibre StarRC Voltus Tempus Pegasus OpenROAD OpenLane Yosys Magic KLayout …and a dozen more

That is expensive, scarce, and brittle — and a barrier to everyone outside the incumbents.

The hiring tell

Today, you hire

a PrimeTime engineer
a Calibre engineer
an Innovus engineer

Tomorrow, you hire

a Chip Engineer

The AI drives the tools.

AI can finally orchestrate the tools

A model reasons about the design; Vyges executes it — driving the sign-off engines through one interface (vyges mcp), locally, whichever model you bring. You express intent — "close timing," "fix these DRC violations" — not which of fourteen tools, and which flags.

The tools still run underneath — you no longer have to be their operator. Your engineers are freed to work on the chip, not the toolbox.

Staff around the chip, not the tool

AI‑native silicon engineering — bring any model, run it locally, and ship silicon in weeks.