<!channel>: (I'm doing a channel blast for Mehdi Saligane because channel blasting permissions got restricted on the workspace. The original message is above.) From Mehdi: "Please make sure to share your gds files when ready. We will have to run a check on our side. The final submission deadline is 17Jan. We need about a week to run all your designs. Please let me know if you have any questions."

Hello @mehdi @Tim Edwards, I hope you are doing fine. Unfortunately, after doing a detailed analysis of the remaining tasks and the available resources, our team in Chile realized it would be not possible to deliver the SAR design for the tapeout (we still don't have a working top level simulation, and therefore can't do block-level optimization and layout). This considers the fact that the university is closed until march , as I already informed to @Boris Murmann some days ago. We can commit to the following for the date proposed: • Full LDO design ready for tapeout and integrated to the pad ring • Help making possible that the top including pad ring and blocks for LTC2 is properly carried out to tapeout. • Regarding the SAR, we hope we can finalize it and deliver it in a future gf180 mpw free run. Please excuse the late change of plans, but it has been hard to deal with the gf180 technology and changes in our team.

@mehdi @Tim Edwards @Jorge Marin Wish you a happy new year. I'm working on the layout of DAC, but I'm not sure if I will finish it and be ready for tape-out. However, in my opinion, it seems that DAC design requires iterative steps with a unit matrix cell. So, if I can confirm this configuration once, it will accelerate the completion of the design.