Kickstarting IC design

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  • skywater-pdk

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

  • Skywater Technology is a semiconductor manufacturing company which has made its 130nm CMOS process node and its standard cells open-source (due to the efforts of Google, yes, you heard it right- Google.) https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk

  • openlane

    OpenLane is an automated RTL to GDSII flow based on several components including OpenROAD, Yosys, Magic, Netgen and custom methodology scripts for design exploration and optimization.

  • And, there is a project called 'The OpenROAD Project' which has created an open-source framework for digital back-end design/physical design. https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project/OpenLane

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