<@U016EM8L91B> Any ideas when is the upcoming tape...
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Amro Tork
01/13/2021, 5:57 PM@User Any ideas when is the upcoming tapeout?
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Tim Edwards
01/13/2021, 6:02 PMYou mean the upcoming shuttle run, or the one after that?
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Amro Tork
01/13/2021, 6:03 PMThe upcoming shuttle run?
Amro Tork
01/13/2021, 6:03 PMDeadline for the next tapeout time.
Amro Tork
01/13/2021, 6:03 PM?
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Tim Edwards
01/13/2021, 6:06 PMWell, we (at efabless) are still working on the process of getting the current set of designs to SkyWater; when you have an intermediary like efabless, "tape-out" means something different to the end-user as to the intermediary. The next time efabless will be accepting designs for a shuttle run is likely to be around May, from my last discussion with Tim Ansell, but the exact date has not yet been determined. The exact date will most likely be predicated on when SkyWater says they can run the wafer batch.
Tim Edwards
01/13/2021, 6:08 PMThe current set of designs will go to SkyWater as soon as we can run all the final scripts on all of them. We have just finished debugging those scripts, so we should be able to run all the projects through to generating final GDS in the next couple of days.
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Amro Tork
01/13/2021, 6:25 PMThanks @Tim Edwards for all that great information.
Amro Tork
01/13/2021, 6:26 PMI just wanted to get an estimate for planning our work for the next shuttle. I think we could say may be May.
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Matt Venn
01/14/2021, 9:23 AMalso see the latest video I posted on the zerotoasic youtube channel - interview with Tim answered a lot of these questions