GF180MCU PDK
As part of the Open Source Chips Inititive, Google and Global Foundries have partnered bring a commercial 0.18u CMOS process to the open source community. This is a game changer.
Since integrated circuits were first commercialized in the early 70’s, IC fabrication technology has advanced at a pace faster than anything else in the history of civiliation. In an amazing way this advancement of technology has brought the cost of a transistor down below a grain of rice, but the cost of designing in a modern CMOS technology has spriraled out of control in the other direction. In most cases today, designing a custom integrated circuit is a millioni-dollar plus committement and could easily be multiple times that. The cost is spread across multiple areas - masks, design tools, verification tools, IP, libraraies, and more. Through the Open Source Chips Inititive, Google and Global Foundries and others are building an ecosystem where all segments of the devopement costs are addressed, from design tools to masks.
The first tool in every IC design tool chain is the SPICE simulator. The San Fernando Valley SSCS is pleased to provide the fastest easiest way to get going with this technology. We’ve ported the GF180MCU device models to the Analog Devices LTSpice circuit simulator, the most widely used SPICE tool in the world. Within minutes, you can be up and running in designing circuits in a state of the art CMOS process, using comercially developed devices models covering noise, process variation, and Monte-Carlo effects.
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