Introducing Vyges: Metadata-Driven Infrastructure for Reusable Silicon IP

Structured like software. Verified by automation. Reused with confidence.

August 11, 2025 • By Shivaram Mysore

The Silicon IP Crisis

Every chip designer knows the frustration: you find the perfect IP block, but it's locked in a proprietary format, has no testbench, and the documentation is outdated. You spend more time reverse-engineering than building.

Even within a semiconductor company that has shipped many chips, a IP module that was developed for a production chip is not easily reusable as there is no central repository manifest of detailed IP information so that a quick evaluation can be made. Just knowing about the existence of an IP itself is deep tribal knowledge.

This isn't just annoying—it's a $50B problem. The semiconductor industry wastes billions annually on IP integration issues, version conflicts, and verification gaps.

There has to be a better way.

💡 Introducing Vyges

Vyges is the first developer-first metadata-driven platform built to unify and accelerate the entire silicon IP lifecycle—from planning to deployment—through intelligent automation, standardization, and ecosystem integration. It brings the best of software development — catalogs, CI, versioning — into silicon design.

Think of it as what GitHub did for code or Hugging Face did for models, now applied to chip building blocks.

What Makes Vyges Different

📦 Catalog-Driven Reuse

  • Discover IP blocks with rich metadata and build history
  • Understand structure, constraints, and interface protocols at a glance
  • Reuse with confidence, knowing exactly what you're getting

✅ CI-Backed Verification

  • Continuous testing using open-source flows (Verilator, GHDL, Yosys) or commercial tools
  • Real-time validation of changes and dependencies
  • Automated quality gates prevent broken integrations

🤖 AI-Ready by Design

  • Built for generative design and LLM integration
  • Automated testbench generation and metadata annotation
  • Block-level synthesis and optimization

🔗 Open Toolchain Integration

  • Use your favorite tools: Verilator, GHDL, Yosys, cocotb, PySpice or commercial ones
  • Portable and extensible from day one
  • Freedom from inflexible tooling choices - mix OSS and COTS tools in your workflow

👷‍♀️ Who Vyges Is For

  • Silicon IP creators building internal or open-source blocks
  • FPGA/ASIC teams managing reusable internal libraries
  • University researchers teaching chip design with modern workflows
  • Chiplet ecosystem builders seeking standardization and traceability

The Future of Chip Design

The semiconductor industry is at a crossroads. As we move toward AI-driven design, chiplet architectures, and increasingly complex systems, the old ways of managing IP simply won't scale.

Vyges represents a fundamental shift: from tribal knowledge to systematic, metadata-driven development. From manual verification to automated quality assurance. From isolated tools to integrated ecosystems.

🔗 Get Started

Vyges early platform is available now. Contribute to it by using, testing and providing feedback.

➡️ Explore the platform
➡️ Browse the catalog
➡️ Request access or partnership or support

"Vyges is the missing infrastructure layer for reusable, metadata-driven silicon IP. It's time chip teams moved as fast as software."

About the Author: Shivaram Mysore is the Founder and CEO of Vyges. With over two decades of experience at the intersection of software, standards, open-source and platform infrastructure with startups and companies such as Sun, Microsoft and Infoblox, Shivaram brings a rare cross-disciplinary lens to modernizing silicon development.

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