This normally costs $75k/year. It's the "Entry" level of the ARM Flexible Access program [1]. It's limited to producing one chip per year. This seems low for

This normally costs $75k/year. It's the "Entry" level of the ARM Flexible Access program [1]. It's limited to producing one chip per year. This seems low for a startup which needs to iterate. They do not provide a DRAM controller. Startups will have to license one. There is a BSD-licensed controller: LiteDRAM [2]. This ARM offering helps with the first stage of creating an SoC. It's probably about 20% of the effort. The remaining 80% requires a lot of expertise and expensive software and prototyping hardware. University of Washington's Bespoke Silicon Group is developing free tools for the rest of the process: http://bjump.org http://bjump.org [1] https://www.arm.com/-/media/global/products/flexible-access-doc/Arm-Flexible-Access-Data-Sheet.pdf?revision=0ed48fce-bb33-43a3-804a-2b44deaa2665&la=en&hash=CF6B7355E089EF41207C0711997268B56F37A26E https://www.arm.com/-/media/global/products/flexible-access-... [2] https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram