[Libre-silicon-devel] Announcement - Mumble session on Sunday 2021-05-16 @ 18:00 UTC

[Hagen SANKOWSKI]

Hello Martin.

Well, we got stopped during the 1 micron process by the Hong Kong
protests while already verifying our process on a test wafer named
PearlRiver.

Our man-power is limited, we are happy about any helping hand we can
get. So, the relatively new target of an 50 micron process is a
intermediate step to attract more developers/people to a silicon
manufacturing process at all. We have to spread the knowledge which
isn't rocket science. While publishing a quite simple process suitable
for basement or garage hopefully we will rise up more skilled people for
silicon-base chip-making technology..

Once we reach this 50 micron target, with more help and money, we can go
further to our 1 micron target and beyond. And yes, we need money as
long as the access to clean rooms has to be paid.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Hagen.

On 5/16/21 8:12 AM, Martin Geisse wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> my 2 cents since I again don't know if I can attend the session:
> 
> If I was thinking about funding LS, I would have some questions:
> - how does a 50u-in-a-garage process help establish 1u-in-a-lab? Making
> sure that the garage process is not a dead end.
> - will funding help you get back into a lab where you can do CMOS
> manufacturing (i.e. is money actually the problem here)? If that lab is
> not INL, which is it?
> 
> Other than that, you mentioned the open source toolchain. I'm not sure
> which one you mean, just making sure you have seen this one since
> knowing about tool development will probably raise the credibility:
> https://theopenroadproject.org/
> https://github.com/The-OpenROAD-Project
> This toolchain actually worked out of the box and gave me a GDS file for
> my verilog. With the toolchain from opencircuitdesign I gave up after a
> week of working around bugs and compilation errors. They are also
> working together with a tool like Magic called klayout that is actually
> meant to be used by human beings.
> 
> Greetings,
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 12:33 AM David Lanzendörfer
> <leviathan at libresilicon.com <mailto:leviathan at libresilicon.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi
>     As you all know, I'm supposed to have a panel discussion on Monday
>     with the
>     folks from NG Zero.
>     I've prepared some slides and would be interested into some feed back.
> 
>     Cheers
>     David
> 
>     On Saturday, May 15, 2021 9:20:31 AM WEST Hagen SANKOWSKI wrote:
>     > Hello List!
>     >
>     > This is our weekly announcement for the next Mumble Sessions on Sunday
>     >
>     >       2021-05-16 @ 18:00 UTC.
>     >
>     > Please join us as usual at our Mumble Server
>     murmur.libresilicon.com <http://murmur.libresilicon.com> at
>     > Port 64738, the Channel is IC.
>     >
>     > We like to follow-up our topics from mumble sessions before:
>     > - DMD chips for the Stepper
>     > - Glove Box
>     > - NLnet (virtual) Workshop
>     > - etc.
>     >
>     > Regards,
>     > Hagen.
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