Google recently announced a partnership with SkyWater Technology, a semiconductor engineering and manufacturing foundry based in Bloomington, Minnesota, to enable developers with limited funds to design and manufacture semiconductors using an open source design kit.130nm processto build chip products, and earlier announced that this service will be provided free of charge90nm process technology.
The 90nm process technology provided free of charge can still be used through the SKY90-FD open source design kit jointly developed by Google and SkyWater Technology, and can be operated in a web server environment that complies with the Apache 2.0 specification.
The 90nm process technology offered this time is based on the 90nm FDSOI CMOS process proposed by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, allowing designers to design chips with more complex circuits, resulting in higher execution speeds and lower power consumption.
Like the 130nm process previously provided, although the current process technology has been reduced to smaller specifications, the process technology provided can still be used in most IoT devices and passive component designs. By providing different process technologies, Google expects to drive the development of more diverse open source chip designs.
