Development Agreement	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Development Agreement	Development AgreementEffective March 31, 2020, we signed an OEM Supply and Development Agreement (Development Agreement) with a customer. Under the Development Agreement, Fluidigm developed products based on its microfluidics technology. The Development Agreement provided for up-front and periodic milestone payments during the development stage, which was completed in the third quarter of 2021, and on-going annual payments of $0.4 million for sustaining efforts. We recognized $2.4 million and $8.8 million of development revenue from this agreement for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

The entire disclosure for collaborative arrangements in which the entity is a participant, including a) information about the nature and purpose of such arrangements; b) its rights and obligations thereunder; c) the accounting policy for collaborative arrangements; and d) the income statement classification and amounts attributable to transactions arising from the collaborative arrangement between participants.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 808
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6931272&loc=SL5834143-161434

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 808
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