The #IEEE conference paper I was working on last year is finally published!

The UC Santa Cruz team did all of the actual silicon design work, while I did the post-silicon bringup, testing, and characterization.

"#SRAM Design with #OpenRAM in #SkyWater 130nm", 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10181379

Also presented at OSDA 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm8VV4Ba224

The Wizard of Semiconductors https://hackaday.com/2023/05/22/the-wizard-of-semiconductors/ #MiscHacks #ICdesign #skywater #Parts

The Wizard of Semiconductors - If you have three hours and you want to learn the fundamentals of semiconductors, ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/05/22/the-wizard-of-semiconductors/ #mischacks #icdesign #skywater #parts

#TIL courtesy of #FOSSAsia:

"The SkyWater Open Source PDK on Github is listed as a collaboration between Google and SkyWater Technology Foundry to provide a fully open source PDK and related sources. This so that one can create manufacturable designs at the SkyWater foundry, that target the 130 nm node. Open tools here should mean a far lower cost of entry than is usually the case."

#MayaPosch, 2020

https://hackaday.com/2020/06/25/creating-a-custom-asic-with-the-first-open-source-pdk/

#OpenHardware #OpenSilicon #PDK #SkyWater

I recently came across Princeton's Reconfigurable Gate Array but I can't quite figure it out. I think perhaps it's a story for architecting FPGAs and then evaluating the architectures. Fabrication might not be part of the story - although maybe any foundry would do. Maybe a project for Google's Free Chips offer (see #skywater, #openlane)??

https://prga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

skywater:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755693

@vertigo