In order to help small open source projects with chip manufacturing, Google not only bears the relevant costs, but also cooperates with skywater technology to provide an open source process design kit (PDK). Although the chip manufacturing was completed on the 130 nanometer process (sky130), it was a great success for the open source hardware project with limited funds. Today, Google launched a new website To help you create your own chip.
Today, Google announced a new chip design project - Google open MPW shuttle program. The project allows anyone to submit open source IC designs and make them free of charge outside the use of this open source PDK and other open source EDA tools. Facts have proved that 130 nm manufacturing is still useful for hardware prototype design of similar Internet of things.
The open MPW shuttle program covers a wide range of submissions, including the submission of microwatt openpower 64 bit kernel to risc-v kernel, Sudoku accelerator, hardware implementation of various games, sram/reram generator and other small ASICs.
Google's partner ebaless has announced that the "mpw-6" shuttle is accepting open source projects for their next round of manufacturing. The submission deadline is June 8. To help open source silicon design work, Google has launched a google. Com/silicon launched their new design website. For more details on this work, please see google open source blog。