What is Arm Flexible Access for Start ups
Your guide to developing innovative SoCs while conserving cash and accelerating time to market.
For early-stage semiconductor startups, innovating and quickly testing ideas while building investor confidence is key to success.
Arm created the Arm Flexible Access for Startups to help startups develop innovative systems-on-chip (SoCs) while conserving cash and accelerating time to market.
By joining Arm Flexible Access for Startups, you can be confident that you're using world-class IP, and are reducing development risk with Arm's extensive ecosystem at your fingertips.
Are you privately owned with funding less than $20 million?
Is your annual revenue less than $1 million?
Arm Flexible Access for Startups opens the door to a broad portfolio of Arm technology – IP, tools, and support – via a company membership. With Arm Flexible Access for Startups you get:
No-cost unlimited access to included IP products, Arm tools, training, and support.
The ability to experiment, design, and then tape-out prototype silicon for free, with licensing fees due only at the point of manufacture, and only for the final IP used.
Transparent, simple-to-understand pricing terms with a license and royalty fee calculator so costs are known from the start.
Discounts when using multiple pieces of Arm IP and for deeply embedded applications.
No need to negotiate per-product contracts or navigate complex procurement processes. You can simply design right through to tape out with the support you require, while predicting and controlling costs for improved cash flow.
Freedom to explore and prototype different solutions, easily pause, pivot, and stop projects for increased agility in rapidly changing markets, and collaborate with third parties on designs before deciding which IP to use.
What's Included?
Arm Flexible Access gives you easy access to a broad range of IP products, tools and services. Here's an overview of what's available:
