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The #ChipsJU call for Design Enablement Teams (#DET) opened on 4 June. The deadline is on 30 July 2025 (soon!).

A DET provides support for designing chips. This includes application engineering support, cloud-based EDA infrastructure, setup of design environment, foundry access, supply chain management: https://www.chips-ju.europa.eu/Appendix6_I.pdf (page 10)

Call details: https://www.chips-ju.europa.eu/CallDetails/?id=c604c14f-6f1f-f011-9989-000d3ab0a56e

Past workshop: https://www.chips-ju.europa.eu/Events-detail/?id=61668f10-180b-f011-bae2-000d3ab909f8

See also slide 12 of: https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=One_year_of_experience_with_IHP_OpenMPW_shuttles:_a_review

Are you working in Germany? Are interested to cooperate with Taiwan for developing open-source EDA?

Then apply by 1 October 2025 for pre-proposals:

https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Update_on_German_Microelectronics_Design_Initiative

https://www.elektronikforschung.de/foerderung/bekanntmachungen/foerderaufruf-2025-deutschland-taiwan

#Taiwan #Silicon #FOSS #FSiC

Xueyan Zhao announced that #ICSprout is expected to open a 55nm PDK in July 2025:

* ICSprout is jointly established by Zhejiang Provincial Government and Zhejiang University
* It has 12-inch CMOS 180/55nm process lines
* First test chip on ICSprout 55nm Open PDK taped-out in June 15 2025
* Price range: 1400$ - 5600$/mm2

For more information see slide 16 of https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php?title=Making_Open_Silicon_Design_Everywhere:_Using_Cloud-based_Open_Agile_EDA_Platform

#OpenHardware #FSiC #Silicon #FOSS #NGIZero #IHP

The 2025 Free Silicon Conference is over. Slides are online, videos will follow.

Highlights:
* China to open a 55nm PDK in weeks
* ChipsJU DET call is open
* DE:SIGN + Taiwan partnership (submit pre-proposals by 1 October)
* Progress on parasitic extraction
* Former CTO of #CST Studio (Peter Thoma) spoke at FSiC
* ElemRV: Open-source microcontroller taped in IHP130
* Visualization of chips in action: https://znah.net/tt09/

#FSiC #Silicon #FOSS #NGIZero #IHP

FSiC2025 is fully booked.

120+ engineers, hackers, and researchers will gather in Frankfurt an der Oder to discuss libre EDA, PDKs, on-going projects and more.

Check the program at:
https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2025

Video recordings will be published after the conference.

#openHardware #semiconductor #silicon #freeSilicon #FOSS #NGIZero