7th - 10th of July 2025, Istanbul, Turkiye
The authors of selected papers presented at the SMACD 2025 conference will have the opportunity to submit an extended version of their manuscript to a Special Issue of the International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU:Q2,IF:3.0).
These extended papers will undergo a full peer-review process. To support the timely dissemination of research, selected manuscripts will be fast-tracked for review and publication, aiming for a scheduled publication process.
Come find out what has happened since the launch of the 2020 SkyWater open source PDK and where things are going in the future. Now that over 300 designs have been taped out, find out about some of the cool and unusual things which have happened. See also what type of people are contributing and where in the world they are.
The presentation slides can be found at bit.ly/rvd22-sky130
Do not forget to visit the developers.google.com/silicon portal and accompanying blog post bit.ly/gdevsilicon
If you want to contact Tim, use @mithro in the slack channel https://join.skywater.tools/
Tim ‘mithro’ Ansell is a software engineer at Google and has been developing open source software for 20+ years.
Tim has recently started trying to shake things up in the hardware accelerator development ecosystem by removing roadblocks to having a completely open ecosystem.
In 2020 he worked with SkyWater Foundry, a domestic U.S. manufacturer of integrated circuits, to release the world’s first fully open source, manufacturable PDK for their 130nm process node and is funding a free shuttle program for open source designs.
He has also contributed to projects in the open EDA ecosystem like OpenROAD, OpenRAM, Magic and many others.
The latest SkyWater SKY130 PDK design resources can be downloaded from the following repositories:
On Github @ google/skywater-pdk
Google CodeSearch interface @ https://cs.opensource.google/skywater-pdk
foss-eda-tools.googlesource.com/skywater-pdk
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