Consider doing a tapeout using SKY130 using Google's no cost shuttle program

[mithro]

Have you considered doing a tape out of your VeriGPU using the SKY130 PDK and no-cost shuttle program?

My team launched the fully open source 130nm PDK with SkyWater (http://github.com/google/skywater-pdk) with a no-cost shuttle program (https://efabless.com/open_shuttle_program). You can see more information from my talk at ESSCIRC/ESSDERC last year, see slides @ https://j.mp/esscxxrc21-sky130 and the recording recording @ https://j.mp/esscxxrc21-sky130-video

While 10mm2 might be a bit small for a GPU, it could still be used to test a lot of interesting parts. Things like DFFRAM (https://github.com/Cloud-V/DFFRAM) can be used for optimizing things like the register file.

[hughperkins]

Thanks! Good idea :)

[glzhou97]

This looks interesting, I wonder if you have successfully tapped out using SKY130 shuttle?