Unstructured requirements
Clients can describe their mission but not their silicon architecture. Every engagement starts with months of manual extraction.
Silicon dimension · Part of Multipolar RAIL
Silicon Assessment & Inference for Requirements
SiliconAIR
From mission description to hardware trust specification in under two hours.
Defense primes and DoD program offices can describe their mission — the platform, the operating environment, the threat — but they cannot describe their hardware design requirements. SiliconAIR inverts this: a structured profile captures the silicon dimensions that matter, and an expert-built inference engine produces a complete hardware trust and silicon provenance specification. What used to take 3–4 months of manual workshops now takes under two hours.
The Problem01 02 03
Hardware requirements are the bottleneck nobody budgets for.
Primes and program offices can define mission requirements in detail — but translating those into concrete silicon design specifications requires months of manual workshops, senior systems engineers, and multiple rounds of discovery. Every engagement starts from scratch, and the result is delayed NRE contracts and budget overruns before a single transistor is laid out.
The gap between mission description and hardware specification has never been wider. SiliconAIR closes it.
Fragmented compliance
Hardware trust, export control, anti-tamper, crypto, and supply chain are assessed separately — or not at all — until late in the design cycle.
No repeatable process
Each new engagement reinvents the requirements workflow. Institutional knowledge lives in email threads, not a structured platform.
What SiliconAIR Is
The silicon dimension of Multipolar AIR.
SiliconAIR is Silicon Assessment & Inference for Requirements — the silicon / hardware assessment counterpart to CYBAIR (cyber AI readiness) inside Multipolar AIR on Multipolar RAIL. Where CYBAIR evaluates your organization's cyber AI readiness, SiliconAIR evaluates the hardware trust, silicon provenance, and design requirements for custom chips and secure integrated systems.
01ProfileStructured silicon dimensions, 30 min
02InferRules engine, frameworks, risk
03Generate5-component engagement package
04ReviewClient validation, 1–2 hours
05DeliverNRE scope baseline + partner handoff
Capabilities
What SiliconAIR provides.
Structured silicon profile
Characterize hardware requirements across compute architecture, fabrication technology, cryptographic standards, root of trust, anti-tamper, environmental rating, export control, supply chain security, production volume, and integration complexity. Every dimension uses a controlled vocabulary — no free-text, no classified data enters the platform.
Automated inference engine
An expert-built rule system processes the profile against framework requirements to determine which hardware trust capabilities are required, conditional, or not applicable — with criticality weights and implementation specifications.
Hardware trust specification
A complete, framework-validated specification covering all silicon dimensions with technical requirements, implementation guidance, design constraints, and trade-off analysis — ready for NRE scoping.
Threat & risk assessment
Structured hardware threat analysis covering hardware Trojan insertion, side-channel attacks, reverse engineering, supply chain interdiction, and more — with probability × impact risk scores and mapped mitigations.
Compliance cross-reference
Multi-framework mapping showing every applicable control across FIPS, Trusted IC criteria, CMMC, ITAR, AUKUS, and other relevant standards — with equivalency mappings and a certification roadmap.
Economic analysis
NRE cost estimation, per-unit cost projections, SWaP-C comparison (custom ASIC vs. FPGA vs. COTS), and make-vs-buy decision support — parameterized by process node, integration complexity, and production volume.
Position
Part of Multipolar RAIL — the silicon counterpart to CYBAIR.
SiliconAIR is the hardware dimension of Multipolar AIR on RAIL. Together CYBAIR (cyber AI readiness) and SiliconAIR (silicon assessment & inference) form a complete AI + hardware readiness assessment. When an AI workload runs on custom silicon, a CYBAIR assessment can automatically trigger a complementary SiliconAIR assessment — closing the loop from software to hardware trust.
CYBAIR — Cyber AI Readiness
The cyber security counterpart. Together CYBAIR + SiliconAIR form the complete AIR assessment — covering both the AI software and the silicon it runs on.
Explore CYBAIR →Multipolar RAIL
SiliconAIR lives inside AIR on RAIL — the end-to-end AI lifecycle platform from readiness assessment through secure production deployment.
Explore Multipolar RAIL →GENOMIA & WINS
Organizational twin and strategy simulation complete the Multipolar AI Suite around RAIL — making AI and hardware impact visible across the enterprise.
Explore GENOMIA →Turn mission requirements into hardware specifications.
Brief us on your mission and silicon requirements. We will design a SiliconAIR assessment tailored to your program — and show you how RAIL can close the loop from readiness through production.