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About ChipHarbor

The harbor for builders bringing open silicon to life.

ChipHarbor lowers the threshold for chip design and tapeout through ECOS55 open infrastructure, pre-verified templates, shared shuttle economics, online signoff, and traceable delivery.

Mission

Make tapeout accessible

We make chip design and tapeout open, affordable, and accessible, from ideas to silicon.

Vision

A harbor for open silicon

To be the harbor for the open silicon era, where every chip idea can set sail.

Operating model

Productized manufacturing

Users select a template and shuttle, submit design resources, pass signoff, pay, and track manufacturing WIP through delivery.

Values

What the platform should feel like to builders.

The values below come from the platform brief and are translated into product behavior for this prototype.

Open by Default

Invest in reusable PDK, IP, SoC, EDA, templates, and knowledge that compound for the ecosystem.

Accessible Silicon

Bring entry costs down with shared shuttles, tiny MPC regions, and online purchase-style flow.

Builders First

Keep the workflow direct: clear requirements, practical defaults, and no mystery around the next step.

Engineering Trust

Make signoff, manufacturing states, and delivery evidence explicit rather than hidden in email threads.

Shared Voyage

Use MPW and MPC economics so many builders can share infrastructure while preserving clear boundaries.

Learn, Tape Out, Iterate

Support students, labs, and independent teams as they move from first prototype to real silicon feedback.

platform/principles why this exists
01Lower manufacturing costshared resources
02Lower engineering complexitypre-verified templates
03Lower toolchain barrierECOS ecosystem
04Minimal workflow intrusionlocal EDA compatible
05Traceable deliveryTapeout Voyage
Next public surfaces Mock roadmap
  1. Online ordering coreSubmission, order, signoff, payment, WIP.
  2. Template catalogArk, Freighter, Cruise, OSOC with file requirements.
  3. Cloud-native chip design toolsPlanned integration with ECOS Studio and ECC flows.
  4. Expanded knowledge baseBring-up notes, boards, examples, and learning paths.