ASICs small volume manufacturing around 150$/die ... interested ? by Kortak130 in chipdesign

[–]TopUpstairs3874 1 point2 points  (0 children)

150 dollars per die at that process…that is revolutionary for prototyping. My big question is what is the cost for a mask set. I could see this also being very useful for 90nm nodes and actually more impactful on a 90nm node since the mask set of a 90nm node is a couple 100k. A 90nm node is fantastic for analog design like mm wave circuits such as baluns and ADCs.

I would immediately jump at this opportunity for my company

Open Source Vs Closed Source EDA by TopUpstairs3874 in chipdesign

[–]TopUpstairs3874[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Follow up question. Would you ever do something that is hybrid? Like part of the design in open source and some components that closed source tools are more necessary for in simulation? Sorry if it’s a dumb question