ChipAgents brings agentic AI to chip verification

Santa Barbara startup ChipAgents, founded by researcher William Wang, uses AI agents to automate chip verification: they generate testbenches, run simulations and trace failures back to RTL. The platform layers on top of existing EDA tools rather than replacing them; customer and funding figures were not disclosed.

• Agents write testbenches, run simulations and locate RTL bugs
• The platform sits on top of existing EDA tools, not instead of them
• Founder William Wang is a UCSB professor focused on language processing
• Customer counts and funding were not disclosed