Kwanan nan Labari ya bayyana cewa Google ya hada kai da su kamfanonin masana'antu Fasahar SkyWater da Efable don ƙaddamar da wani shiri wanda ke ba masu haɓaka kayan aikin buɗaɗɗen tushe damar gina guntuwar da suke haɓakawa kyauta.
Shirin yana nufin tada haɓaka haɓaka kayan aikin buɗewa, rage buɗaɗɗen farashin haɓaka ayyukan da sauƙaƙe hulɗa tare da masana'antar masana'anta.
Godiya ga himma kowa zai iya fara haɓaka kwakwalwan sa ba tare da tsoron babban farashi don samar da samfurori na farko ba. Google yana rufe duk samarwa, marufi, da farashin jigilar kaya.
Aikace-aikace don haɗawa cikin shirin samarwa kyauta ana iya aikawa kowane wata biyu. Ramin mafi kusa zai rufe a ranar 8 ga Yuni, kuma guntuwar da suka yi nasarar shigar za su kasance a shirye a ranar 30 ga Agusta kuma za a aika wa marubuta a ranar 18 ga Oktoba.
Daga cikin aikace-aikacen da aka ƙaddamar, an zaɓi ayyuka 40 (Idan akwai ƙasa da aikace-aikacen 40 da aka ƙaddamar, duk waɗanda suka wuce ikon gyara za a sanya su cikin samarwa). Dangane da sakamakon samarwa, mai haɓakawa zai karɓi kwakwalwan kwamfuta 50 da allon 5 tare da kwakwalwan kwamfuta da aka shigar.
TLDRs; Ƙungiyar Google Hardware Toolchains tana ƙaddamar da sabon tashar tashar mai haɓakawa, developer.google.com/silicon , don taimakawa al'umma masu tasowa su fara da Buɗewar shirin sufuri na MPW. Wannan zai ba kowa damar ƙaddamar da buɗaɗɗen ƙirar IC don ƙirƙirar ba tare da farashi ba.
Tun daga Nuwamba 2020, lokacin da Skywater Technologies ta sanar da haɗin gwiwa tare da Google don buɗe Kit ɗin Tsarin Tsari don kullin tsari na SKY130, ƙungiyar Hardware Toolchains a nan a Google ta kasance cikin tafiya don buɗe ginin silicon ga duk masu haɓakawa. Samun damar yin amfani da buɗaɗɗen tushe da ƙirƙira PDK yana canza matsayin da ke cikin masana'antar ƙirar siliki ta al'ada da ilimi:
Masu zanen kaya yanzu suna da 'yanci don fara ayyukan su ba tare da NDA da ƙuntatawa na amfani ba.
Masu bincike za su iya sake yin binciken su ta hanyar takwarorinsu.
Buɗe tushen kayan aikin EDA na iya haɗawa sosai tare da tsarin masana'anta
Aikace-aikace don ayyukan da aka rarraba cikakke a ƙarƙashin buɗaɗɗen lasisi ana karɓa, ba a haɗa shi da yarjejeniyar da ba a bayyana ba (NDA) kuma hakan ba ya iyakance iyakokin samfuran su.
Google ya ba da damar samar da buɗaɗɗen gwajin guntu kyauta
Dole ne a canja wurin bayanan don samarwa a cikin tsarin GDSII, wuce rukunin gwajin da aka bayar, kuma a sake bugawa daga fayilolin aikin na asali (watau ayyana buɗe aikin, amma ba zai yi aiki don canja wurin ƙirar mallakar mallaka zuwa samarwa ba).
Kowane aikin yana da ƙayyadadden yanki na 2,92mm x 3,52mm mai amfani da 38 I/O fil akan abin da aka riga aka ayyana don ƙarfafa ƙirar ku. Hakanan yana da mahimman kayan aikin gwaji don tabbatar da ƙayyadaddun bayanai da halayen guntu kafin a aika don yin rikodi.
Don sauƙaƙe ci gaban guntu, ana samar da kayan aikin buɗewa masu zuwa:
- SkyWater PDK (Kit ɗin Tsarin Tsari), kayan aiki na kayan aiki wanda ke bayyana tsarin ƙirar 130nm (SKY130) da aka yi amfani da shi a cikin masana'antar SkyWater kuma yana ba ku damar shirya fayilolin ƙira da ake buƙata don samar da guntu.
- OpenLane saitin abubuwa ne don jujjuya atomatik na da'irori na ASIC RTL zuwa tsarin GDSII da ake amfani da su a masana'antar guntu.
- XLS (Accelerated HW Synthesis) saitin kayan aiki ne don haɗa fayilolin aikin tare da guntun kayan aikin guntu wanda ya dace da bayanin babban matakin da aka bayar na aikin da ake buƙata, wanda aka ƙera a cikin salon haɓaka software.
- Saitin dokoki don tsarin taron Bazel tare da tallafi don kayan aikin buɗewa (Yosys, Verilator, OpenROAD) don aiki tare da harsunan bayanin kayan masarufi (Verilog, VHDL, Chisel, nMigen).
- OpenROAD wani tsari ne don sarrafa sarrafa buɗaɗɗen tsarin haɓaka da'ira.
- Verible saitin kayan aiki ne don haɓaka Verilog, gami da parser, tsarin tsara salo, da linter.
Finalmente idan kuna sha'awar ƙarin sani game da shi, zaka iya duba bayanan A cikin mahaɗin mai zuwa.