WinterLabs
Research × Product Studio

Building the
cold-forged future
of intelligent systems.

A collective of specialized labs designing an agentic silicon compiler, safety-certifiable RISC-V IP, edge ML, mission-grade avionics, and open source everyone can build on.

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specialized labs
RTL→GDS
full flow focus
Agentic
by design
Open
source first
Winter Labs
spec.mdGDSIIRTL→P&R
Chip Design Harness
AI Tapeout
RISC-V Processor IP
Agentic EDA
RTL → GDSII
Edge ML
MISRA / CERT C
Open Source
Signal Processing
Functional Safety
OpenLANE
MCP
Chip Design Harness
AI Tapeout
RISC-V Processor IP
Agentic EDA
RTL → GDSII
Edge ML
MISRA / CERT C
Open Source
Signal Processing
Functional Safety
OpenLANE
MCP
What we do

One studio. Many frontiers.

Winter Labs runs as a set of focused labs, each attacking a different hard problem — sharing tools, research, and a bias toward autonomy.

Silicon, automated

A modern harness that makes chip design and tapeout reproducible — and AI agents that drive it from RTL to GDSII.

Autonomy you can trust

Verification-first agents that show their work, respect guardrails, and keep humans in the loop where it matters.

Research that deploys

Applied ML that survives the real world — models that generalize across datasets and run on constrained edge hardware.

Open by default

The tooling and libraries we build internally, released as open source for the whole community to build on.

The Xenon flow

From a Markdown spec to taped-out silicon.

Our agentic silicon compiler owns the whole open-source EDA toolchain — turning intent into a place-and-routed, fabrication-ready design.

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Spec
Markdown intent
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RTL
Verilog / HDL
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Verify
Sim + formal
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Place & Route
OpenROAD
04
Silicon
GDSII · tapeout
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The Labs

Explore each frozen frontier.

Every lab is a self-contained team with its own mandate and projects. Step inside to see what each one is building.

Silicon Lab logo
3 projects

Silicon Lab

Chips, from a spec to signoff.

We design real silicon on the open-source EDA stack — RISC-V processor IP and an agentic compiler that carries a chip from spec to tapeout.

RISC-V processor IPAgentic RTL-to-GDSII flowsOpen-source EDA (OpenLANE / OpenROAD)
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AI Lab logo
3 projects

AI Lab

Autonomous agents for the hardest engineering.

We build agentic systems that own real toolchains — designing chips, enforcing compliance, and accelerating AI at the edge, not just autocompleting.

Multi-agent orchestrationTool-use & verification loopsAgentic EDA & compliance
Explore lab
Research Lab logo
1 project

Research Lab

Machine learning that survives the real world.

We do applied ML research aimed at deployment — models that generalize across datasets and run on constrained edge hardware, not just benchmarks.

Cross-dataset generalizationEfficient / edge inferenceHealthcare & signal ML
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Defense Lab logo
1 project

Defense Lab

Mission systems for the sky.

We build software-defined avionics and mission systems — portable landing aids and flight-path monitoring for demanding, safety-critical operations.

Software-defined avionicsGuidance & glide-path systemsSignal processing & DSP
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Open Source Lab logo
2 projects

Open Source Lab

Software we build in the open, for everyone.

We open-source the tooling we build internally — vendor-neutral alternatives to expensive proprietary workflows, free for the whole community.

Vendor-neutral toolingCompliance & quality workflowsAgent infrastructure (MCP)
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More Labs

New frontiers are forming.

We spin up new labs whenever a problem is big enough to deserve one. Something new is condensing — stay close.

To be revealed
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specialized labs
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active projects
0nm
process node target
OSS
first, always

Have a hard problem worth freezing time over?

Whether it's silicon, capital, or research at the edge of what's possible — we'd love to hear what you're building.