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Tim Edwards - what happens between ASIC submission and sending to Skywater?

Tim Edwards - what happens between ASIC submission and sending to Skywater?

Tim Edwards - what happens between ASIC submission and sending to Skywater?

Zero to ASIC Course

March 11, 202130m 13sFull

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Show Notes

00:12 Tim Edwards introduction
01:00 next steps after submission before files sent to Skywater
02:00 infrastructure - getting all the latest from everyone's repositories
03:05 size of the repos can be a problem
03:41 revolutionary part of this run is that everything is Open Source down to the GDS
04:51 Open Source PDK is what makes it possible to do this for eFabless
05:12 Why didn't we submit the source rather than the final GDS?
09:42 Got all the GDS2 files from the repos, what's the next step?
10:00 3 scripts, 1st applies a user id
13:04 2nd script does fill generation
16:14 3rd script does compositing
19:39 DRC count for Caravel
23:00 lots of people have helped make this happen
23:50 biggest project at eFabless
24:00 When do you think the files will get sent to Skywater?

Open Source VLSI tools: http://opencircuitdesign.com/
eFabless: https://efabless.com/company