Over the past few years, Google and SkyWater have worked together to develop an open-source design toolkit to enable chip designers to break through the manufacturing process. On Thursday, the two companies announced new plans to transition from their initial 130nm process to 90nm. And just a month ago, they launched a new silicon design portal for the open source project.
With Google and SkyWater announcing the latest expansion of their open source program, open source chip designs will specifically be able to take advantage of the 90nm technology in the SKY90-FD Process Design Kit (PDK).
The community received 90 new submissions of MPW-6 from 24 regions
Phoronix notes that the process design toolkit is based on the Apache 2.0 license and that its manufacturing shuttle program will continue to be available free of charge to project participants.
Total number of open MPW designs
SKY90-FD is said to be based on the 90nm FDSOI CMOS process technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory.
SKY90-FD process stack topology schematic
Finally, in addition to Google’s participation, SkyWater has received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).
