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TFA doesn't really summarize what's available very well, so let me take a shot from a technical perspective: - 130 nm process built with Skywater foundry - Sky
by timerol 6y ago
TFA doesn't really summarize what's available very well, so let me take a shot from a technical perspective:
- 130 nm process built with Skywater foundry
- Skywater Platform Development Kit (PDK) is currently digital-only
- 40 projects will be selected for fabrication
- 10 mm^2 area available per-project
- Will use a standard harness with a RISC-V core and RAM
- Each project will get back ~100 ICs
- All projects must be open source via Git - Verilog and gate-level layout
I'm curious to see how aggresive designs get with analog components, given that they can be laid out in the GDS, but the PDK doesn't support it yet.
- raverbashing 6y agoI'm thinking 10mm^2 so kinda 3.3mm x 3.3mm. In 130nm (Remember 130nm gave us the late models Pentium 3s, the second model P4s and some Athlons, though all of these had a bigger die size) I'm thinking you could have some low power or very specific ICs, where these would shine as opposed to a generic FPGA solution
- moonchild 6y ago> 10mm^2 so kinda 3.3mm x 3.3mm 3.16mm x 3.16mm?
- raverbashing 6y agoSquare root by head is hard ;)