COMPANY
About Ponchi AI.
Ponchi AI is an independent, early-stage AI venture founded by Hao-Yen Tang. We are developing engineering workflows for electronics teams, starting with requirements checks and traceable reports, alongside consulting and implementation work.
Company information
- Location
- San Jose, California
- Founder
- Hao-Yen Tang
- Contact email
- info@ponchiai.com
- Website
- ponchiai.com
- Founder contact
- haoyen@ponchiai.com
Our product work.
Spec-to-Hardware is our initial product focus. Its local requirements-checking example is implemented; the broader AI agent workflow is in development. Spec-to-ASIC is a complementary direction. Draw-to-Play is a separate family side project with recorded digital examples.
Spec-to-Hardware
Engineering workflows for electronics teams, starting with requirement checks and traceable reports.
For: Electronics teams clarifying requirements before design work.
Input: Small synthetic requirements with explicit voltage and sampling-interval bounds.
Outputs: Implemented example — structured fields and reports linking each result to requirement IDs.
Checks: A deterministic local tool checks missing bounds and contradictory ranges, with an injected failure control.
Human review: Engineers confirm requirement meaning, clarify unresolved values and review tool results.
Current scope: This local Python example checks requirement consistency; engineers review the results before design work.
Inspect the local development example
Spec-to-ASIC
AI workflows that connect circuit requirements to architecture, schematics or RTL, and simulation results for mixed-signal chip design.
For: Mixed-signal chip and hardware engineering teams.
Input: Functional requirements, performance targets and design constraints.
Outputs: Development focus — editable architectures, schematics or RTL, and simulation reports.
Checks: Tool-based simulation and verification against engineering requirements.
Human review: Engineers review requirements, design decisions and verification results.
Current scope: The linked silicon examples are the founder's prior work at other organizations.
Explore founder prior work
Draw-to-Play
A family side project that turns children's drawings into character designs, toy-scale 3D studies and animations.
For: Families exploring a child's drawing as a digital character.
Input: Original hand-drawn characters, with their shapes and colours.
Outputs: Existing polished drawings, toy-scale 3D views and short animation files.
Checks: Visual comparison and recorded frame review; published files are checked during the site build.
Human review: A person selects and reviews each character study and animation.
Current scope: These examples demonstrate digital studies and recordings, rather than fabricated toys or a live self-service product.
View drawings and animations
Meet our founder.
I'm Hao-Yen Tang, co-founder and CTO of UltraSense Systems, where I run chip, firmware, algorithm, and system engineering. I work on the same problem from both ends: the physics of a piezoelectric transducer, and the mixed-signal circuit that has to read it for microamps in a car door at minus forty degrees.
Before UltraSense I was a staff IC designer at TDK-InvenSense, where I was chip lead across several generations of the UltraPrint ultrasonic fingerprint sensor family. I did my PhD at UC Berkeley in Bernhard Boser's group, where the fingerprint sensor-on-a-chip I built became the prototype for that product line and won the 2016 ISSCC best paper award.
Over the past year I have put AI agents to work across my company's engineering — chip design, firmware, test, documentation — and learned what it takes for a team to trust what they produce. Through Ponchi AI, I develop Spec-to-Real AI services that connect specifications and designs to chips, boards, and physical objects. Alongside that product work, I help engineering teams build agent workflows and train the people who run them.
CONTACT
Discuss your project.
Tell us your goal, what you have today, and the engineering workflow you want to improve. Whether it is a chip, a board, a device, or a creative object, email us to start the conversation.
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