AI is reshaping chip design productivity: RigorAI system released by Dayuan Chip Design
AI is reshaping chip design productivity: RigorAI system released by Dayuan Chip Design
March 12, 2026- In recent years, the complexity and cost of chip design have grown exponentially. SoC chip design involves dozens of EDA tools and hundreds of engineering steps, while chip indicators continue to improve and the market cycle is gradually compressed. In this context, traditional design patterns that rely on manual tuning and tool driven approaches efficiency bottlenecks.
Recently, EDA company RigorAI, which focuses on digital circuit design and optimization, officially released its AI driven chip design system RigorAI. This system integrates big model technology, intelligent agent systems, and automated workflows to build a new generation of AI driven chip design platform, significantly improving design efficiency and engineering productivity.
Three year layout lays the foundation for overtaking on curves
At the beginning of the new year, the concept of AI automation chip design has received high attention worldwide. Ricursive, a US company, received a valuation of $4 billion just two months after its establishment, demonstrating the industry's huge expectations in this direction.
However, as early as three years ago, RigorFlow had already started laying out its layout around chip workflow automation, chip data analysis, extraction, and management, and had successively launched products such as RigorFlow workflow management and Rigor series signature analysis tools. These products lay the foundation for the introduction of AI capabilities. The related products have already been implemented and applied in multiple enterprises, and have received positive feedback from customers.
Dr. Lin Yizhou, CEO of Rigon Semiconductor, said, "The process tools and data systems developed by Rigon in the early stages are data fuel for AI capabilities. We initially prepared for deep learning AI, but with the rapid development of LLM technology in the past two years, our product roadmap is highly aligned with the evolution of AI technology. There are forward-looking plans and lucky elements here. Based on years of product development, the goal of RigorAI system is to make AI a 'super assistant' for chip companies, providing decision support and automation capabilities for various stages of the design process
Carefully crafted for chip design scenarios
The RigorAI system consists of three parts: a workflow platform, an agent and knowledge base platform, and a chip data platform (Database). As an emerging phenomenon, intelligent agents have many shortcomings in terms of security, stability, and controllability. The currently popular OpenClaw has exposed many hidden dangers. RigorAI system was designed specifically for chip enterprise scenarios, considering data security, permission management, and system stability for users. The system supports enterprise level private deployment and has established a comprehensive security control mechanism to assist enterprises in managing AI productivity.
RigorFlow: Efficient management of intelligent workflow
If the big model is the "brain" of chip design, then automated workflow is the "hands" that execute tasks. The RigorAI workflow system can automatically schedule EDA tools, run design processes, and generate analysis results, eliminating the need for engineers to frequently modify scripts or manually manage tasks. Through automatic visual process management, the number of design processes that an engineer can handle simultaneously has increased from two or three in the past to dozens, significantly improving efficiency.
RigorAgent: Comprehensive Assistance in Design Steps
The Agent platform not only creates various professional intelligent agents, such as PR optimization agents, FP agents, DRC repair agents, etc., but also allows enterprise users to independently build a multi-agent collaboration system according to their own needs, enabling AI to automatically handle complex design tasks.
The platform also creates an EDA tool expert knowledge base for engineers, providing professional answers to chip design problems without illusions, and automatically building a continuously evolving enterprise level private knowledge base, greatly reducing the time for manual document review and problem solving.
RigorDB: A Data Base for Intelligent Design
Data is not only the core foundation of management decision-making but also AI driven. RigorDB is an intelligent database system for chip design workflow, which uniformly manages the hierarchical data, versions, and logs in the workflow of chips. It provides project managers with multiple natural language query capabilities, such as automated extraction, multi-dimensional analysis, visual chart display, etc., providing flexible data support for decision-making.
Assist domestic ecological development
The RigorAI system is deeply integrated into the domestic semiconductor ecosystem, not only serving multiple chip design companies in China, but also closely connected to the domestic ecosystem in its own construction, forming an open platform. The system is not only compatible with domestic GPUs to improve efficiency, but also actively supports the integrated calling of domestic EDA tools, becoming a part of the autonomous and controllable chip ecosystem.
Regarding the RiGuan chip design
Founded in 2021, Riguan Chip Design is a domestic EDA enterprise dedicated to the full process intelligence of chip design, committed to reshaping chip design productivity through AI technology. The company gathers industrial capital from multiple companies such as Yuanhe Puhua and Skyworth Investment. The founder and core R&D team have over 20 years of EDA research and development experience, continuously promoting the development of domestic EDA technology.
