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Open MPW Program

The Open MPW program was a project by Google which provided free manufacturing of chips to open source projects. The actual management was done by Efabless.

Their where; * 8 open MPW runs on Skywater's SKY130 process technology (https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk) * 2 open MPW runs on GlobalFoundries GF180MCU process technology (https://github.com/google/gf180mcu-pdk).

See also: tiny-tapeout

Shuttle runs:

• Pre-release – (Info about the strive ICs found at https://j.mp/du20-strive)
  • strive: RISCV using FF's
    • GDS found @ https://foss-eda-tools.googlesource.com/efabless/designs/strive/
  • strive2: RISCV using OpenRAM
    • GDS found @ https://foss-eda-tools.googlesource.com/efabless/designs/strive2/

• openram-tc-1kb: OpenRAM test
  • GDS found @
  • azonenberg's characterization
    • https://j.mp/du20-openram
    • Part 1 - https://youtu.be/lMmzrAdkaB0
    • Part 2 - https://youtu.be/ttLhiRsI8Pc
    • Part 3 - https://youtu.be/3-On3aQZCAc
    • https://github.com/azonenberg/sky130-validation

• : some broken links here (efabless1, etc ⇒ proper name)

• MPW1: first public submissions accepted
  • https://foss-eda-tools.googlesource.com/third_party/shuttle/sky130/mpw-001
  • https://foss-eda-tools.googlesource.com/third_party/shuttle/sky130/mpw-001/foundry/+/refs/heads/main/manifest-mpw-001.csv
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lKKtgcVXwYAe81afha8X3PpY4TEB0o6XlIWKrYT2A7c/edit#heading=h.nec58o1m3f9f
  • bit.ly/sky130-mpw1-manifest

Misc artsy photos: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11nSfUbzwplb1k0HrzEiKuinRtcOmv6G-?usp=drive_link

A number of pages are listed under vendor “efabless”. For example

• https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=bunnie:efabless:sky130-mpw7
• https://siliconpr0n.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:efabless:sky130-mpw1-pyfive

MPW1 test tile

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