Chip design and fabrication for university students and researchers

Chip design and fabrication for university instruction and research

chipIgnite provides affordable accelerated design and fabrication for university instruction and research as part of an electrical engineering program.

Attract students and prepare them for industry and graduate research by providing them with a real-world chip design experience that includes fabrication and test.

The chipIgnite platform provides an end-to-end solution:
- Access open-source EDA tools
- Customize SoC designs with integrated RISC-V processors
- Join a global design community through an open-source PDK
- Master silicon bring-up with expert support

Compete design and tapeout in single session, test and bring up in the next

Electrical engineering, VLSI design, digital design, FPGA design, class instruction, tapeout, silicon fabrication, graduate research