Who are we? We are a research group at Oklahoma State University that specialize in the area of Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI), computer architecture/arithmetic, memory architectures, and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) design flows.

Skywater Technology has started a process thanks to partners Efabless and Google to revolutionize how we make semiconductors. The process here is an attempt to provide a simple way to make a semiconductors using open-source tools. In other words, we are democratizing hardware design through open-source chip design tools and methodology.

GlobalFoundries has also partnered with Google to revolutionize how we make semiconductors with open-source tools.

For this process we have created several tools that help with this process. We welcome your feedback as well as any comments to help with this process.

• Overview
• Tutorial for Layout with Magic
• YouTube Presentation on SKY130 standard-cells
• Wally RISC-V Architecture - partnership with Harvey Mudd College and UNLV on a configurable RISC-V architecture with many extensions (OpenHW Group Addition)
• CharLib - work-in-progress Python-based Characterization Tool for use with standard-cell libraries
• [Oklahoma State University (OSU) Standard Cell Libraries for SKY130]
  • 12 Track OSU SKY130 Library
  • 15 Track OSU SKY130 Library
  • 18 Track OSU SKY130 Library
• [Oklahoma State University (OSU) Standard Cell Libraries for SKY130 Radiation Hardened by Design (RHBD)]
  • Open Source Radiation Hardened Standard-Cell Library
• [Oklahoma State University (OSU) Standard Cell Libraries for GF180]
  • 12 Track OSU GF180MCU Library
• Prefix Adder Generation - understanding prefix adders and sparsity better as well as HDL generation (a tool made by our Ph.D. candidate Teo Ene)
• [CharLib] - Open-Source Standard-Cell Library Characterizer in Python
  • CharLib - An open-source standard cell library characterizer
• Stick Diagramming Tool - made by Nick Overacker who took our VLSI class and made a super tool!
  • Stick Diagramming Tool Source
• AES Implementations in SystemVerilog - open-source implementations of AES by our Ph.D. candidate Ryan Swann
• DES Implementations in SystemVerilog - open-source implementations in SystemVerilog for S-DES and DES used in Digital Logic Design courses at Oklahoma State University.
• Resources

If anything here is confusing (or wrong!), or if we have missed important details, please contact us.