# CHIPS Alliance

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chips-alliance/  
**Website:** https://chipsalliance.org  
**APIs profiled:** 0

CHIPS Alliance is a Linux Foundation project (founded in 2019) that develops open-source hardware (silicon) and tools, including CPUs, SoC subsystems, peripherals, IP blocks, and FPGA tooling. The Alliance fosters collaboration among 50+ member organizations across industry (AMD, Antmicro, Google, Microsoft, SiFive, Intel, Nvidia, Cisco, Synopsys, Microchip, SanDisk and others) and academia (Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and more) to lower the cost of hardware design, accelerate innovation in silicon, and provide an open and accessible alternative to proprietary EDA flows. CHIPS Alliance hosts more than a dozen technical projects including Chisel (Hardware Construction Language), F4PGA, Caliptra (Root of Trust), VeeR (RISC-V cores), Surelog/UHDM (SystemVerilog parsing), and the FPGA Interchange format. The Alliance does not publish a centralized REST API; technical assets are distributed via GitHub repositories under github.com/chipsalliance and member-driven mailing lists.

## Kin Score — 10.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (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 | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (1)

- **Chips Alliance Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Chips Alliance Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (8)

- **Open Source CPU/SoC Design**
- **FPGA Toolchain Development**
- **SystemVerilog Linting and Compilation**
- **Hardware Security Root of Trust**
- **RISC-V IP Verification**
- **EDA Tool Interoperability**
- **Academic Hardware Research**
- **Industry-Academia Hardware Collaboration**

## Tags

Chisel, EDA, FPGA, Hardware, Linux Foundation, Open Hardware, Open-Source, RISC-V, SiFive, Silicon, SOC, SystemVerilog

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