I suppose it depends what they're printing and why. There are plenty of structures that will want to be 180nm and larger for many years to come. But I definitely agree that pretty soon it will make no sense to…
You might find this course helpful then. There is a huge amount of information you need to consume to make an IC so having it all organized for you is pretty valuable. It will save you many, many, hours. :)…
That doesn't really match my experience. I could be totally wrong though because I don't get to look at the books. ASML it still announcing DUV systems on their product page. I would think this would mean they would be…
> The secret is that 180nm nodes are so legacy That's true but they keep upping the capabilities of what the designer can do at 180nm. Based on the wait times for my jobs, there's not a lot of spare cycles, at least at…
> 180 nm fabs are getting to the point where replacing machines is prohibitively expensive and spare parts have to be custom made. Do you have a reference for that? I'm not sure why it would be true. 180nm lines have…
If you just want to put your verilog into an ASIC then it can be done fairly inexpensively these days. For example: https://efabless.com/chipignite $10K for 100 packaged dies in QFN. Which is not totally out of hobby…
I suppose it depends what they're printing and why. There are plenty of structures that will want to be 180nm and larger for many years to come. But I definitely agree that pretty soon it will make no sense to…
You might find this course helpful then. There is a huge amount of information you need to consume to make an IC so having it all organized for you is pretty valuable. It will save you many, many, hours. :)…
That doesn't really match my experience. I could be totally wrong though because I don't get to look at the books. ASML it still announcing DUV systems on their product page. I would think this would mean they would be…
> The secret is that 180nm nodes are so legacy That's true but they keep upping the capabilities of what the designer can do at 180nm. Based on the wait times for my jobs, there's not a lot of spare cycles, at least at…
> 180 nm fabs are getting to the point where replacing machines is prohibitively expensive and spare parts have to be custom made. Do you have a reference for that? I'm not sure why it would be true. 180nm lines have…
If you just want to put your verilog into an ASIC then it can be done fairly inexpensively these days. For example: https://efabless.com/chipignite $10K for 100 packaged dies in QFN. Which is not totally out of hobby…