COMPANY
About Ponchi AI.
Ponchi AI is an independent AI venture founded by Hao-Yen Tang. We develop Spec-to-Real AI services that connect digital specifications and designs to hardware and physical objects, alongside consulting and implementation work.
Company information
- Location
- San Jose, California
- Founder
- Hao-Yen Tang
- Contact email
- info@ponchiai.com
- Website
- ponchiai.com
Our product work.
We develop Spec-to-Real AI workflows for chips and integrated hardware. Explore the design work below, alongside Draw-to-Play, our family side project.
Spec-to-ASIC
AI workflows that connect circuit requirements to architecture, schematics or RTL, and simulation results for mixed-signal chip design.
Explore ASIC design work
Spec-to-Hardware
AI workflows that bring electronics, mechanical design and firmware together, from a product brief to schematics, PCB layouts, parts and enclosures.
Explore hardware design work
Draw-to-Play
A family side project that turns children's drawings into character designs, toy-scale 3D studies and animations.
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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