Curvature-native layout
Floor plans organised around the geometric primitives the cognitive substrate uses.
Fields
Materials & silicon
Curvature-native compute substrates and the physics of doing more with less.
Geometry is a material property
Our materials-and-silicon program studies how the geometry of a substrate constrains the cognition it can support. The work spans analog block design, layout that respects locality, and a security drop-in that puts the root of trust inside the same fabric as compute.
conventional view
geometry is a constraint imposed by the foundry that the architect spends effort fighting against.
our view
geometry is part of the cognitive substrate — when layout, analog references, and root-of-trust share the same organising principle, locality and energy are free.
Where the science sits
Analog references
Bandgap, PTAT, and sense paths designed against the cognitive primitives, not retrofitted to fit them.
Hardware root of trust
Sealed storage, lockout, and post-quantum signing live inside the chip, not bolted on after the fact.
Four references, four stages
The analog corner of the substrate is small but load-bearing. We track each block by its honest status — IP-grade, SPICE-validated, in design, or in layout.
bandgap
reference voltage, temperature-invariant target
PTAT
proportional-to-absolute-temperature current source
sense-amp
low-offset comparator on the cognitive sense path
PTAT layout
matched-pair layout under symmetry constraints
Inside the fabric, not bolted on
Sealed storage, lockout, and post-quantum signing live alongside compute — the same die, the same provenance, the same audit.
- TPM inside-fabric trusted-platform core
- secmem secure-memory partition, separate read path
- sealed sealed storage bound to die identity
- BCH error-correcting layer for one-time keys
- Shamir split-secret recovery primitive
- audit append-only, tamper-evident event log
- lockout rate-limited retry policy in hardware
- PKCS#11 post-quantum signing surface (ML-DSA-class)
What is differentiating
The differentiating bet is that the substrate and the silicon share an organising principle. Where they do, the system gets locality and energy for free, because the physics is already doing the work the abstraction would otherwise have to enforce.
cross-cuts
The substrate ships with cognition, analog, and trust as one fabric
Where each lives in its own discipline elsewhere, we ship them as parts of the same material. The engineering surface is at geometry-native; the cognitive substrate is at cognition & memory.