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    mehdi

    07/07/2020, 8:06 PM
    (I think I used the wrong channel)
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    Tim 'mithro' Ansell

    07/08/2020, 6:41 PM
    set the channel topic: Channel for talking to employees at SkyWater Technology Foundry
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 2:46 PM
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 2:46 PM
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 2:47 PM
    The question I have for public discussion is what is necessary to extend qflow/yosys/openroad/openlane to support 3DSoC development/layout?
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 2:48 PM
    The business case is it would be far more cost effective and dramatically higher return on investment for me to build a supercomputer and the open source tools for 3DSoC EDA to run on it than pay to get the licenses for commercial tools.
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    Tim 'mithro' Ansell

    07/15/2020, 4:46 PM
    @User let's walk before we try to run
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 4:56 PM
    I've been running this marathon for a long time now, I'm looking at another 20 years before the investments I started making 7 years ago start to pay off. When I started talking to @User about full open source tools to GDS he told me the same thing.
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 4:58 PM
    And software is always the slowest thing to evolve, so if we have to modify the architecture of the synthesis, place and route, and other tools to handle 3D SoC design we need to understand what publicly available research is being done and how that software development plan will evolve
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    Tim 'mithro' Ansell

    07/15/2020, 5:13 PM
    @User Software dev shouldn't be the slow part -- the fact that it is currently the case shows what is wrong with the industry here
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 5:32 PM
    incremental improvements to existing software can go very fast, and is what open source is good at. If there's a patent minefield around 3DSoC synthesis, then I have to wait 20 years to implement it in a sane way
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    Troy Benjegerdes

    07/15/2020, 5:34 PM
    I want to understand the algorithms and what is going to be different from 2-D. Are there going to be fundamental algorithm changes required, or is this an incremental extension of existing methods?
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    Michael Stetzler

    09/21/2020, 5:48 AM
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    Elkim Roa

    11/12/2020, 3:23 AM
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    Anish

    11/26/2020, 1:17 AM
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    stefanoaz

    06/15/2021, 2:08 AM
    Question for the folks at Skywater: The lvt pmos device has a minimum gate length of 0.35µm, instead of the normal 0.15. Why is this? Is it simply to limit the higher leakage current of the device? Or is there something about the Vt adjust implant that requires this? I'd like to use the lvt pmos in cascode circuits where leakage is not so important.
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    Kennedy Caisley

    01/21/2022, 12:41 AM
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    John Kustin

    05/06/2022, 10:03 PM
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    Ahmed Ramadan (Mabrains)

    08/02/2022, 1:01 PM
    I get this error when running xschem
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    Leonardo Gomes

    08/16/2022, 9:27 PM
    Hey, everyone! I have a question about the MIM capacitors available at sky130: is there any data about the thickness of the top plate metal, and about the dielectric it uses? I'm trying to run inductance extraction to get the self-resonating frequency of the device, and I kind of run into a roadblock...
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    Amro Tork

    08/16/2022, 11:39 PM
    @Leonardo Gomes you should find that in the stack definition link
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    Leonardo Gomes

    08/16/2022, 11:41 PM
    Actually, it only contains the size of via4 / via3 and, or course, of M3, M4 and M5. There's no indication of the size of the gap, nor of the capm / cap2m layers
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    Amro Tork

    08/16/2022, 11:42 PM
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    Amro Tork

    08/16/2022, 11:43 PM
    Yss
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    Amro Tork

    08/16/2022, 11:43 PM
    Yes
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    Amro Tork

    08/16/2022, 11:48 PM
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    Amro Tork

    08/16/2022, 11:48 PM
    Check mim
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    Amro Tork

    08/16/2022, 11:49 PM
    @Leonardo Gomes
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    Leonardo Gomes

    08/16/2022, 11:52 PM
    Yeah, aside from an CAP ILD indication, and a CAPM and CAP2M sheet resistance, there's no other information. At least nothing helpful for inductance extraction
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    Leonardo Gomes

    06/21/2023, 8:29 AM
    Hey guys! Any news on the skywater 65nm node? I heard from a friend about Dr. Murmann's talk in IMS this year about it being available (or close to).