Google’s Plan to Make Chip Development More Like Open Source Software #Google #Hardware
The Google Hardware Toolchains team is launching a new developer portal, developers.google.com/silicon, to help the developer community get started with its Open MPW shuttle program.
This will allow anyone to submit open source integrated circuit designs to get manufactured at no-cost.
With the last MPW-5 shuttle that closed up in March this year, we’ve seen a record level of engagement with 78 open silicon projects submitted for inclusion from 19 different countries.
We’ve seen a variety of designs submission to previous editions of the shuttle including:
Small digital, analog and mixed signal designs
Analog, SRAM and ReRAM generators
Dedicated crypto and ML operations accelerators
Fun designs like Sudoku accelerators, physically modeled guitars, hardware versions of Tetris or Wordle
Many System-on-a-chip designs ranging from award-winning RISC-V cores to larger Linux-capable 64-bit SoC
Group submissions like the Zero to ASIC course, often packing as many as 14 subprojects in the shared user area
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