Any book or tutorials which can be used for learni...
# sky130k
khush patil
06/22/2025, 5:13 PMAny book or tutorials which can be used for learning the Sky130 PDK!
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Lab Lecture
06/23/2025, 4:00 AMI think, it is a vast topic. Generally, as designer, you need to know the design rules. But, that is also vast. For digital designs you need not to worry about the PDK. Because the digital flow is automated and Design rule checks are taken care of.
For analog you need to know more about PDK. The best way to learn about it is to create a circuit in Xschem and lay it out using Magic. You will encounter design rule violations. Then you can ask those specific questions in this forum and people will be able to answer.
In one sentence - there is no book on any PDK and there won't be any.
Lab Lecture
06/23/2025, 4:07 AMTo elaborate further, to learn more about the PDK you can run the individual tools like Yosys, OpenSTA, power etc. Each of these tools use one property from the PDK. Yosys use the area information of each gate. OpenSTA use the timing information from the PDK. Power uses the voltage, current, capacitance information from the PDK.
You can create small designs and use those tools. From the results and log files you can learn about the PDK.
Lab Lecture
06/23/2025, 4:20 AMIf you have background on semiconductor physics, band structure, fermi level etc., and want to work on cell/library characterization then you may go through the whole documentation of the PDK. Otherwise, there is no need to go through.
As we all know this is a open-source PDK, the documents may not be complete.
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khush patil
06/23/2025, 4:38 AMI will be doing analog circuit design
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06/27/2025, 10:30 PMthere is a tutorial. First, I recommend you install the docker since it will have preloaded examples that are going to be really really useful. next, look at this website: Analog Circuit Design
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06/27/2025, 10:30 PMI am currently doing this on my free time.
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