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SSCD Runs Workshop on Democratizing IC Design
In the quest to promote forwardlooking
topics and build new communities,
the Solid-State Circuits
Directions (SSCD) committee of the
IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
dedicated its second workshop to
the emerging topic " Democratizing
IC Design. " The online event drew
more than 970 attendees, nearly
50% of whom are in the Young Professionals
age group.
Over the past several decades,
society has strongly benefited from
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free and open source software. More
recently, the open source spirit has
expanded to hardware and has
energized a new maker community
that collaboratively tinkers with
embedded systems at the printedcircuit-board
level. Groundbreaking
developments have now also
opened the door toward democratizing
IC design and enabling open
and global collaboration.
Last year, Google, SkyWater, and
efabless partnered to launch a shuttle
program [1] based on SkyWater's SKY130
open source process (130-nm CMOS) [2].
This technology is offered to the community
along with a complete design
flow to enable designers to implement
their ideas. The SSCD workshop provided
an overview of this program and
highlighted upcoming opportunities
to benefit from it. In addition, it showcased
specific design work delivered by
community members and articulated a
call to action for volunteers to design,
teach, and mentor.
The workshop recording is available
online [3] and features the following
presentations:
■ Tim Ansell (Google), " Fully Open
Source Manufacturable PDK for a
130-nm Process "
1
Expert
Useful Chips
2
PDK
3
EDA
AND
4
IP
5
MFG, ASSY,
and TEST
Mohamed Kassem's illustration of the requirements for successful chip design. PDK: process design kit; EDA: IP: intellectual property;
electric design automation; MFG: manufacturing; ASSY: assembly; TEST: testing.
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Open Community
Collaboration
SKY130
Complete
But Limited
Somewhat Useful
Some Open
Obfuscated
Analog

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