Google earlier launched an open source website service that allows users to design their own chips, which will help create chip products on the 130nm process.
The service is in partnership with SkyWater Technology, a semiconductor engineering and manufacturing foundry based in Bloomington, Minnesota, and provides an open-source design kit that enables developers with limited financial resources to build chip products on the 130nm process.
Although the 130nm process can still be used in the design of most IoT devices, passive components, etc., and through Google’s service, it will be able to correspond to the Microwatt OpenPOWER 64-bit bit core. Or based on the core chip of the RISC-V architecture, and can also be used to create various ASIC chip products.
The free cloud chip design platform Efabless will cooperate with Google’s service, and developers will be able to submit designs through Google’s service before June 8, and assist production through Efabless’s foundry resources.
