Solid-State Circuits Society Directions Workshop: Democratizing IC Design

SSCS Workshop

Solid-State Circuits Society Directions Workshop: Democratizing IC Design

Description

Registration is now open for the Solid-State Circuits Society Directions Workshop: Democratizing IC Design on April 7th at 10 AM ET. This workshop is free and open to all. Over the past several decades, society has strongly benefited from free and open-source software. More recently, the open-source spirit has expanded to hardware and has energized a new maker community that tinkers with embedded systems at the printed circuit board level. Groundbreaking developments have now also opened the door toward democratizing integrated circuit design.

Last year, Google, SkyWater and efabless have partnered to launch a shuttle program based on SkyWater’s SKY130 open-source process (130 nm CMOS). This technology is offered to the open community along with a complete design flow to enable designers to implement their ideas. This workshop will provide an overview of this program and highlight upcoming opportunities to benefit from it. Finally, it will showcase specific design work delivered by the community members and articulate a call to action for volunteers to design, teach and mentor.


Date & Time

Wed, April 7, 2021 –
Wed, April 7, 2021

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Location

Virtual

Virtual