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Firmware that starts before your silicon does.

As a member of Arm® Total Design, Insyde brings production-ready UEFI and OpenBMC firmware — plus the insydeICE™ kickstart program — to custom silicon built on Arm Neoverse™ Compute Subsystems, so chiplet-based designs can be validated before hardware even exists.

 

Validate your silicon before it exists.

Insyde has joined Arm® Total Design — a collaborative ecosystem built to simplify and accelerate custom silicon development powered by Arm Neoverse™ Compute Subsystems. As a Total Design partner, Insyde contributes production-ready firmware and deep engineering expertise so AI infrastructure providers can build faster, more secure platforms.

 

Shift-left by design

Firmware bring-up starts on emulation models — months before physical hardware arrives.

Standards leadership

Among the first to achieve Arm SystemReady SR-SIE compliance, and first to achieve Arm SBMR compliance on OpenBMC firmware.

Production-grade from day one

insydeICE™ starts you with proven UEFI and OpenBMC firmware, not a from-scratch build.

The Problem

Waiting for hardware is the biggest schedule risk.

Custom silicon lives or dies on how early problems get found. A firmware bug discovered after tape-out can cost months — and by then, it's the most expensive place to find one.AI infrastructure is moving to custom chiplet-based silicon faster than traditional validation cycles can keep up with.

The Approach

Emulation models that behave like the real thing.

Arm Total Design's shift-left approach lets firmware teams start UEFI and OpenBMC bring-up, debug boot flows, and catch integration issues before tape-out finishes.That only works with production-grade firmware and real emulation support behind it — which is the role Insyde plays inside the ecosystem.

How It Fits Together

From emulation model to production silicon, each stage builds on the last.

 

Emulation-Based Validation

Firmware bring-up starts on Arm Neoverse CSS emulation models, before silicon exists.

insydeICE™ Kickstart Firmware

Production-ready UEFI and OpenBMC firmware as your starting baseline.

Pre-Silicon Boot Debugging

Catch integration issues while they're still cheap to fix.

UEFI & OpenBMC Bring-Up

The same firmware foundation carries through from emulation to first silicon.

SystemReady & SBMR Validation

Standards-based interoperability and manageability, verified.

OCP Ecosystem Integration

Alignment with the Chiplet Marketplace and broader OCP-driven standards.

What Insyde Brings to Arm Total Design

Proven firmware, pre-silicon validation, and standards leadership across the Arm Neoverse CSS ecosystem.

 

insydeICE™ Kickstart Program

Production-ready UEFI & OpenBMC firmware, a low-cost entry point, full Neoverse CSS emulation support, pre-silicon boot debugging, and direct engineer access.

Arm SystemReady Leadership

Among the first to achieve Arm SystemReady SR-SIE compliance on advanced Arm-based server platforms.

Arm SBMR Compliance, First to Market

First company to achieve Arm SBMR compliance, with Supervyse® OPF OpenBMC firmware powering it.

OCP Chiplet Marketplace

Insyde's Arm Total Design contributions extend into the OCP Chiplet Marketplace ecosystem.

Pre-Silicon Validation

Full support for Arm Neoverse CSS emulation models — firmware bring-up starts before hardware exists.

Standards Alignment

Support for the latest Arm system architecture standards and OCP-driven technologies across the stack.

Built for the AI Infrastructure Era

The same validation approach, wherever your Neoverse CSS design is headed.

 

Chiplet-Based Silicon Designers

Validate architecture decisions before committing to tape-out.

AI Infrastructure Providers

Firmware built for the platforms carrying today's most demanding AI workloads.

Arm Neoverse CSS V3 Designs

Firmware support aligned to Arm's latest compute subsystem generation.

OCP-Aligned Server Infrastructure

Built to the open standards hyperscalers are already standardizing on.

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