Efabless launches chipIgnite with SkyWater Efabless, a community chip creation platform, has launched its new chipIgnite program to extend chip design and fabrication and a collaboration with SkyWater Technology for the first node supported in the program. The chipIgnite program expands upon the SKY130-based open source chip manufacturing program sponsored by Google and supports private commercial designs that include non-open source IP. This initiative is being seen as another step forward in the industry to broaden access to chip design by giving people the ability to more easily create and fabricate chips. The chipIgnite program offers unique value to the designer which includes not only low-cost manufacturing, but also a development board and firmware stack to simplify design validation and test. All projects created as part of the chipIgnite program will utilize a full chip reference design template that implements the physical IO for the chip as well as provides a common management area to support test and evaluation of the userâs design.