If I understood correctly, JS Foundry in Japan just announced that they’re open sourcing some of their pdks. 0.3um~2um CMOS, 0.35um~0.8um BCM, etc.

@Mitch Bailey Link?

Just a screen shot for now.

Thanks @Mitch Bailey Translation would help

(not the best translation) PDK release for open source EDA Joint development and release of cells and IP Shuttles available Can create mask data Reduced mask cost using shift masks and other development cost reduction ideas welcome

That’s nice. Link to that announcement?

The announcement was made during part of a presentation at the 4th Open-source EDA Forum today. I haven’t seen any online link regarding the announcement.

Nice, do you have a link to the Forum?

It was registration protected. Let met see if I can find a recording.

Thanks

@proppy did you attend as well?

Looks like this was my misunderstanding. They said they will release they will release a PDK usable with open-source tools, but the PDK itself still requires an NDA. 😭 Sorry for the confusion.

yep, I noted the same thing (that they would release an open source PDK)

bummer - I wonder how they will test that it works with OSS tools

but maybe I also misunderstood

It would be nice to know for sure which way to interpret it

I checked with Moriyama-san.