In the AiT portfolio / Layer 1 — Intent
Requirements are the foundation modern silicon keeps building without.
Jama Connect is the AI-native engineering management platform, built on the requirements foundation engineers trust. In EDA 3.0 it anchors Layer 1, the spine that carries intent from the first stakeholder need all the way to yield.
Why we're paying attention
The layer everyone assumes someone else owns.
Almost all of the industry's tooling lives in architecture, RTL, verification, and physical design. Layer 1 — what the chip is supposed to do, for whom, and how we'll prove it — still lives in Word, Excel, and PDF for most teams. At modern SoC scale, a requirement that can't keep up with the design isn't a record. It's a risk. Jama Connect makes that layer live, and turns it into the trusted context that AI-assisted engineering depends on.
What Jama Connect is
The AI-native engineering management platform, built on the requirements foundation engineers trust.
Live Traceability™
Complete, current upstream and downstream context for any requirement — across every siloed tool and team. Suspect-link management surfaces the blast radius of every change as it happens.
Jama Connect for Semiconductors ↗
Pre-configured for fabless companies and IDMs, with a procedure guide from stakeholder MRDs and system-level PRDs through validation and verification.
Functional Safety
Pre-built frameworks for ISO 26262, IEC 61508, and IEC 62304; TÜV SÜD qualification; a Functional Safety Kit so teams start compliant instead of from an empty template.
Best-of-breed integrations
Requirements stay live across Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Excel — and extend upstream into EDA and verification tools instead of bolting on at the end.
The product context layer
The curated, traceable source of truth that makes LLM-assisted engineering trustworthy instead of plausible. AI requirements and test cases are only as good as the context beneath them.
Item-based, not document-based
Every requirement is an item, every relationship a link, every change tracked the instant it happens. A single source of truth that keeps pace with the design.
Where it sits in EDA 3.0
Layer 1: the anchor for the whole thread.
EDA 3.0 is AI-native lifecycle orchestration from intent to yield, across six layers. Jama Connect anchors Layer 1 — and because it keeps requirements connected to everything downstream, it's the layer that makes the other five legible to one another.
- L1 · Intent & Requirements — Jama ConnectThe living source of intent. Stakeholder needs, safety and security overlays, and the traceable thread that ties them to design and test.
- L2–L5 · Architecture → YieldEvery decision downstream stays linked to the intent that justified it. A change anywhere surfaces everywhere — before it becomes a respin.
- L6 · AI OrchestrationAI that can finally trust its context, because the context is curated, current, and traceable rather than scraped from stale documents.
The series
A View from the Watchtower: three posts on requirements.
Why the document era is ending, why Jama's safety pedigree is only the front door, and how requirements flow through the whole lifecycle when AiT orchestrates it.
The Spreadsheet Was Never the Plan
How requirements engineering got stuck in Word and Excel — and why modern silicon can't stay there.
Functional Safety Was the Front Door, Not the House
Jama's reputation came from FuSa. Why it matters to every silicon team is far larger than ISO 26262.
From Intent to Yield: Why We Partnered with Jama
Requirements as the living spine of the program — and why we welcomed Jama Software to the portfolio.
Intent to yield, unbroken
Carrying a modern silicon program on documents and spreadsheets?
That's not a process you have — it's a risk you're holding. Let's talk about making Layer 1 live.
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