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Sam Zeloof [1] is a high school student who produced an integrated circuit in his garage. He says that the gate size is 175μm, but he has produced test features
by jetrink 7y ago
Sam Zeloof [1] is a high school student who produced an integrated circuit in his garage. He says that the gate size is 175μm, but he has produced test features as small as 2μm. Looking at the photos of his lab, he has probably invested tens of thousands of dollars in the project.
So, that's one data point.
1. http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/ http://sam.zeloof.xyz/first-ic/
- bcaa7f3a8bbc 7y agoAlso, check LibreSilicon [1], a free and open source semiconductor manufacturing process, currently in development. The target is 1 μm, but the developers said 0.5 μm should be possible. Here's a comprehensive introductory talk [2]. And as usual, the project is on GitHub [3]. If things went well, they said they planned to manufacture an open source RISC-V microcontroller, pin-compatible with Atmel AVR ATTiny. [1] https://libresilicon.com https://libresilicon.com [2] https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9410-libresilicon https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9410-libresilicon [3] https://github.com/libresilicon/process https://github.com/libresilicon/process