Libre Silicon – Free semiconductors for everyone

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  • skywater-pdk

    Open source process design kit for usage with SkyWater Technology Foundry's 130nm node.

  • It looks neat, but the process node is 1 um with 3 metal layers.

    The open Skywater PDK is 130 nm : https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk (though I don't know how reliable the PDK is?)

  • wokwi-verilog-gds-test

  • The easiest way to try Skywater PDK is through TinyTapeout: https://tinytapeout.com/ -- highly recommended.

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  • awesome-opensource-hardware

    List of awesome open source hardware tools, generators, and reusable designs

  • Indeed! I recently tried some basic examples from the likes of SiliconCompiler and related projects and found myself reading up and going down the rabbit hole of open-source hardware tooling [0]

    [0] https://github.com/aolofsson/awesome-opensource-hardware

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