About Cologne Chip
German chip maker founded in 1994 as Cologne Chip Designs, originally for ISDN ASICs, which introduced the GateMate FPGA family in 2020. GateMate A1 has 20,480 logic elements on GlobalFoundries 28 nm SLP in Dresden, and the pin-compatible GateMate A2 with twice the logic became available through DigiKey in July 2026.
Cologne Chip was founded in 1994 and is based in Cologne, Germany. It is listed under FPGAs.
Compute Technologies
- FPGAs
What Cologne Chip works on
FPGAs
An FPGA, or field-programmable gate array, is a chip whose internal wiring can be changed after it is made. It contains a grid of small logic blocks, memory blocks and programmable connections. Loading a new configuration file, called a bitstream, turns it into a different digital circuit.
