A Multi Project Wafer is used to reduce the cost of making an ASIC. By using a lot of different designs on the same wafer the Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs of making the mask set are shared between all the participants. The Google shuttle is an example of an MPW. Our MPW submissions So far we have made 4 tapeouts to the Google MPWs: MPW1 MPW2 MPW3 MPW4 MPW physical implementation We sent John McMaster some chips to take a look at from MPW1.
