  Microelectronics development is critical to a wide number of DOE projects and
mission space. Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS)
and manufacturing Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) are important
to DOE, so the infrastructure that allows DOE to carry out its mission needs to
exist. This paper discusses the current initiatives and recommends a business
model to build an ecosystem for microelectronics design for DOE which includes
three main building blocks: the Computer Aided Design (CAD) - Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) design tools, basic design IPs, and access to semiconductor
fabrication facilities.
