# Tela Innovations

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tela-innovations/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Tela Innovations, Inc. is a semiconductor design-technology and intellectual-property company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Los Gatos, California. It developed gridded, straight-line, one-dimensional layout structures and the pre-defined physical topologies built on them, sold as standard-cell libraries and embedded-SRAM peripheral circuits intended to let logic, memory, analog and I/O blocks scale to advanced process nodes with improvements in variability, performance, leakage and area — without forcing customers to change their existing design methodology, equipment set or process technology. Alongside the libraries it sold physical IC design services and layout- and power-optimization software; in 2009 it acquired Blaze DFM, adding patented design-for-manufacturing and power-optimization capability for digital logic in SoCs and ASICs. It was backed by Intel Capital, Cadence Design Systems, Qualcomm, KT Venture Group, Malloy & Company and Black Diamond Ventures, and a substantial share of its later activity was patent licensing, including a portfolio licence taken by Samsung in 2016. Tela never operated a developer program, public API, SDK, webhook surface or machine-readable specification — its products were delivered as licensed cell libraries, EDA software and design services under commercial agreement, not as a callable service. Its corporate host, www.tela-inc.com, still resolves in DNS but no longer runs a web service (ports 80 and 443 both refuse connections) and has no Internet Archive capture with content after January 2022, so it is deliberately not wired as a Website pointer. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 4.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 4.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Tela Innovations Domain Security** — HSTS

## Tags

Company, Semiconductors, Electronic Design Automation, Chip Design, Intellectual Property, Standard Cell Libraries, Design For Manufacturing, Patent Licensing, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/tela-innovations/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.