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chipIgnite
Rapid and Affordable Prototyping

Chip Design, Fabrication and
Bring-up for Product Companies

Looking for a quick, affordable way to prototype and produce low-volume custom chips? chipIgnite is your ideal solution. We offer custom chips tailored to your needs using open-source tools, reference designs, and automated workflows. Designed for ease of use, our platform requires no IC design experience.

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Benefits

Low-cost Development: Start your project with minimal upfront expenses using our open-source tools.

Accelerated Design: Bring your ideas to life faster with our reference designs and automated design flows for rapid development.

No Expertise Needed: Don't worry about being an IC design expert; our guided and automated flows make it easy for anyone to design.

Rapid Prototyping: Turn your vision into reality in just weeks, not months, with our efficient prototyping process.

Affordable Solutions: Significantly cut costs compared to traditional IC design methods when you choose chipIgnite.

Join a Thriving Community: Connect with a large Slack community for support, guidance and community design examples.

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What Do You Get with chipIgnite ?

A complete chip design with a RISC-V core for hosting your design

A complete chip design with a RISC-V core for hosting your design

Access to an open-source automated design flow

For implementing your design hosted inside the chip

10 sq mm of project space

Large area within the chip for hosting your design.

38 programmable IO's

Flexibly configurable supporting digital and analog signals

100 QFN or Bare Die

Fully assembled QFN parts. Pre-designed to match the chip IO pads

5 evaluation PCB boards

Your parts assembled on pre-designed evaluation boards ready to test

Firmware and test tools

Sample firmware, programming utilities and a test framework to jumpstart your testing.

Commercial EDA Tool Support

Use commercial EDA tools to implement your project or sub-project macros. Open-source tools can still be used for the final integration and assembly.

What do you need to get started?

Beginner

Software Developer / Product Designer

  • Start with an automated design generated from Python
  • Integrate new functions from a library of components
  • Regenerate and implement a new design in minutes or hours

Intermediate

Embedded / FPGA Designer

  • Start with one of many reference designs from our community
  • Modify or replace the Verilog code to create your new design
  • Extend the existing test benches to verify your project
  • Regenerate and implement a new design in hours or days

Advanced

SoC or Mixed-signal ASIC Designer

  • Start with a full chip reference design that integrates a custom digital or analog M/S project
  • Develop your circuit using open-source or commercial EDA tools
  • Add to the existing test benches for the chip carrier to verify your functionality
  • Implement a new design in days or weeks
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Exploring the Process

From Concept to Silicon with chipIgnite - Integrating Design through Caravel

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chipIgnite Shuttle Schedule

CI 2404CI 2406CI 2409CI 2411
Engineer Samples100 QFN100 QFN100 QFN100 QFN
Evaluation BoardsYesYesYesYes
Tapeout DateApril 24, 2024June 3, 2024September 16, 2024November 11, 2024
Delivery DateSeptember 20, 2024November 1, 2024February 14, 2025April 11, 2025
Bare Die OptionYes
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Checkout the Silicon Showcase

See examples of fabricated silicon in action.

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Jumpstart your project by leveraging an open-source design from our community

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Riscduino

Arduino compatible Risc-V Based SOC

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DeepSAC

A smart and wearable sleep apnea detection system capable of detecting apnea in real-time.

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Sermo-SoC

An industrial motor control SoC for sensored DC servos and sensorless AC FoC applications.

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See all open-source projects here.