MPW1 seems an age ago, we submitted in December 2020, but it needed some last minute DRC fixes in February. Silicon was received a few weeks ago, and unfortunately we have some serious issues that will prevent most designs from working. This appears to be due to a bad clock tree in the management section of the chip. Additionally, OpenSTA, the tool meant to verify the clock tree was also misconfigured.| Zero to ASIC Course
In this interview I talk with Sylvain ’tnt’ Munaut about his Google/Skywater ASIC application. The design is especially interesting to me because of the way it merges the SRAM blocks with the logic. This has been a major challenge in my own design. Here’s the link to the repository| Zero to ASIC Course