In the semiconductor industry, chip design is a field with high thresholds, and it is expensive. All kinds of design tools can only be afforded by large companies. Now Google has launched an open chip design project, and ordinary people can also design Its own chip, but the 130nm process is not much advanced technology. As a technology giant with great ideas, although most of Google’s business is software, they launched a chip open source program as early as 2020, and cooperated with semiconductor manufacturer Skywater to sponsor the Open MPW Shuttle Program to design chips. The PDK development kit in is completely open source and free. In this project, netizens can submit chip designs at will, and make full use of open source EDA, PDK and other tools to develop the chips they need, and Google will be responsible for free chip manufacturing. The process they use is Skywater’s SKY130, which is a 130nm process. Compared with the current 5nm and 7nm processes, 130nm is obviously many years behind. After all, this is the level of 15-20 years ago, but it is still used for IoT chips. Yes, with both performance and power consumption, .
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