About SEMI TRANSIS

Engineers first. Silicon always.

SEMI TRANSIS was founded by silicon engineers who believed the industry needed a partner that could design a chip, verify it, write the firmware that runs on it, and train the next generation to do the same without handing the program off between three different vendors.

12 +

Years engineering silicon

180 +

Tapeouts supported

4,200 +

Engineers trained

35 +

Semiconductor partners

Engineers reviewing chip design schematics in a lab

2013–

Founded in a two-engineer garage lab

Our Story

Built by engineers who were tired of fragmented programs.

SEMI TRANSIS started in 2013 when two verification engineers left a mid-size fabless startup frustrated by how many hand-offs it took to get a chip from RTL to a shipped product. Design sat with one vendor, verification with another, firmware with a third and every hand-off cost weeks of context.

We built SEMI TRANSIS to close that gap: one team that owns architecture, verification, physical design, and the firmware that boots on the silicon afterward. As client programs grew, so did the need for engineers who could work this way which is how our training practice was born, teaching the same workflows we run internally.

Today that means two things under one roof: a delivery team shipping production silicon for automotive, industrial, and edge-AI clients, and a training floor turning out engineers who can step directly into those programs.

Our Mission

Deliver silicon and embedded systems with the same discipline as the world's leading semiconductor teams, and put that discipline within reach of every engineer we train.

Our Vision

To be the engineering partner semiconductor and product companies call first recognized as much for the engineers we've trained as for the chips we've shipped.

What Drives Us

Six principles behind every program we run.

These aren't wall posters they're the criteria we use to review our own work before a client ever sees it.

Precision Over Shortcuts

Every sign-off follows documented criteria. We don't ship coverage gaps to hit a date.

Schedule Discipline

Programs move in phases with clear exit criteria, so delays surface early, not at tapeout.

One Accountable Team

Architecture, verification, and firmware sit under one roof so nothing gets lost in hand-off.

Engineering-Led Thinking

Every account is run by engineers who've shipped silicon, not project managers reading specs.

Transparent Partnership

Clients see the same coverage dashboards and sign-off docs our own engineers work from.

Talent, Compounded

Every cohort we train strengthens the same bench we staff client programs from.

Our Journey

Twelve years, one team, growing discipline.

2013

SEMI TRANSIS founded

Started as a two-engineer verification consultancy working out of a shared lab.

2016

First ASIC tapeout delivered

Delivered full RTL-to-GDSII ownership on a mixed-signal automotive controller.

2018

Training practice launched

Opened our first VLSI and embedded systems cohorts to meet growing client demand.

2021

35+ semiconductor partners

Crossed 100 tapeouts supported and expanded into FPGA prototyping services.

2024

4,000th engineer trained

Our training floor graduated its 4,000th engineer into the semiconductor industry.

Leadership

The engineers who set the bar.

Every leader at SEMI TRANSIS has shipped production silicon leadership here means staying close to the work.

Harsha Nishani

Founder & CEO

harsha@semitranisis.com

Experience shipping production silicon and leading semiconductor teams.

Keerthi Mallesh

Co-Founder & CTO

keerthi@semitranisis.com

Experience in semiconductor architecture, verification, and embedded systems.

Jhansi P M

COO & Training Head

jhansi@semitranisis.com

Experience in semiconductor training and operations.

ISO 9001:2015

Quality Management

ISO 27001

Information Security

IATF 16949

Automotive Compliance

NDA-First Delivery

IP Protection Standard