Free Chips

Google is offering to fab open-source chip designs for free.

They have to be on 130nm and quantities are limited to 100 ICs.

In a FOSSi (Free and Open Source Silicon) Dial-Up talk, Tim Ansell of Google announced SkyWater PDK, the first manufacturable, open source process design kit. 


The PDK allows you to produce an IC to be manufactured by the SkyWater foundry on the 130nm node.


The first wafer run will be in November and there will be more next year.

All open source chip designs qualify.

Ansell’s talk can be seen here Tim’s Dial-Up talk or click and here Are the slides.

David Manners

David Manners

David Manners has more than forty-years experience writing about the electronics industry, its major trends and leading players. As well as writing business, components and research news, he is the author of the site's most popular blog, Mannerisms. This features series of posts such as Fables, Markets, Shenanigans, and Memory Lanes, across a wide range of topics.

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