We sell silicon. We use software-style infrastructure to ship it faster than anyone else.
Vyges builds and licenses fab-ready SoC IP, commissions silicon for buyers, and operates the first open registry for silicon IP. The silicon is how we monetize; the registry is how we serve the field.
Vyges sells fab-ready SoC IP — complete, integrated, and proven — so companies don't have to spend millions and 6–9 months outsourcing integration just to get to tapeout.
Most SoC programs spend $2–5M and 6–9 months on outsourced integration just to reach tapeout. We replace that step with fab-ready SoC IP delivered in weeks.
The way we ship that fast is by treating silicon delivery like software: open registries, machine-readable metadata standards, automated promotion to fab-ready artifacts. The infrastructure is internal leverage; the silicon is what we sell.
Two ways customers buy from us, anchored on an open registry that the silicon ecosystem is converging on.
VyCatalog — the first open registry for silicon IP, 125+ IPs and growing. Built on the Vyges Metadata Standard.
Fab-ready SoC IP and commissioned silicon. Replaces $2–5M and 6–9 months of outsourced integration with weeks-not-months delivery.
Private catalogs that bring proprietary IP into the same metadata standard. Same engine as the public registry; customer-deployed.
Automated SoC generation and CI compound to deliver fab-ready silicon faster than anyone else. Internal infrastructure, not a product.
Two ways customers engage with us today: silicon products, and VyCatalog Enterprise. Both compound with the open registry — the more IP indexed publicly, the cheaper and faster every Vyges silicon program runs, and the more enterprise buyers depend on the same metadata standard for their own IP.
Fab-ready SoC IP licensing and commissioned silicon. One revenue motion, differentiated by customer stage.
Replaces $2–5M and 6–9 months of outsourced integration with weeks-not-months delivery.
Private catalogs for buyers managing proprietary, embargoed, or licensed IP at scale. Same engine as the public registry, customer-deployed.
Replaces spreadsheet-based IP tracking and retrofitted PLM with a silicon-native registry. Source-controlled metadata, customer-deployed (on-premise, your cloud, or Vyges-managed) — multi-target across ASIC, FPGA, and chiplet.
The flywheel: VyCatalog Enterprise revenue compounds with public-registry growth — every IP indexed in the public catalog increases buyer choice and lowers integration cost for Vyges silicon programs, and every silicon program reinforces the enterprise tier's gravity.
"Vyges builds silicon products; the registry and infrastructure are how we compound speed, reuse, and trust across generations of chips."
IP Creation → Metadata & Discovery → Integration & Deployment
This structure enables scalable workflows, ecosystem-wide reuse, and forward-compatible extensibility.
Learn MoreVyges delivers outsized ROI for teams building custom silicon, FPGAs, and IP portfolios. Whether you're taping out a new chip, scaling an internal IP library, or onboarding external vendors, Vyges creates leverage across your entire workflow.
High-leverage value for every chip program
"A single tapeout budget runs into millions. Vyges delivers payback within days, not quarters."
Accelerate time-to-IP and tapeout
Teach real-world IP flows with open tooling
Vyges was founded by a software technologist frustrated by the inefficiencies in the semiconductor world. While modern software development enjoys standardized tooling, seamless automation, and global collaboration, the silicon IP ecosystem remains fragmented, manual, and often vendor-locked.
We set out to change that.
Vyges brings software engineering practices — metadata standards, automation, templates, CI, and AI-agent-friendly tooling — to silicon design. We didn't start with fabs or tapeouts. We started with code, metadata, and the belief that silicon design should be reproducible, modular, and open.
Today, Vyges is helping teams—from chip startups to major semiconductor companies—build better IP, faster.
Four trends — each independently real — combine to make this the right moment to ship silicon-as-a-product on top of an open metadata standard.
Claude, Cursor, and other AI agents pre-screen products for human buyers via machine-readable surfaces. Silicon IP that ships with structured metadata gets discovered; opaque IP gets ignored. The Vyges Metadata Standard is built for that shift.
Sky130, GF180, OpenLane, OpenROAD, Yosys, RISC-V cores — the open-source silicon stack is production-grade for real tapeouts. The plumbing is now ready for products on top of it.
UCIe, Intel Foundry's chiplet roadmap, AMD/Apple's chiplet shipping — silicon programs are now composed of pre-integrated dies. Composition needs metadata; metadata needs a standard; the standard needs a registry.
Government-backed silicon programs across the US, EU, and Asia are scaling domestic capacity faster than the legacy IP-vendor + integration-services pipeline supports. Outcome-based fab-ready IP delivery is the alternative.
Built at the intersection of software and silicon.
Vyges is founded on a belief that modern hardware development deserves modern tools. We actively collaborate with chip designers, startups, and tool vendors to bring this vision to life.
Founder & CEO
A serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience at the intersection of software, standards, and platform infrastructure. Shivaram has held leadership roles at Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and Infoblox, and has been instrumental in shaping open standards through global organizations like W3C, ANSI/ISO, and the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).
With deep experience across software, infrastructure, and standards, Shivaram brings a rare cross-industry perspective — a unique outside-looking-in approach to modernizing silicon development, open tooling, and trust infrastructure.
VyCatalog, the Vyges Metadata Standard, the open IP catalog, and the tools around them are open-source under Apache 2.0. If your team relies on this work — or wants to see more of it — sponsorship helps fund maintenance, new IP onboarding, and standards stewardship.
Whether you're building chips, teaching students, or enabling tools—we'd love to work together.