Cadence TSMC .13u design kit?

[ASICK]

cadence tsmc

Hi where can I get TSMC .13u Design kit for cadence 5.0. please help

 

[eda4you]

If you work for a company I would contact TSMC directly. For academic projects there are number of design kits like NCSU CDK, Europratice design kit, ...

 

[ASICK]

Thanks for replyin' but none of these have .13u design, is there a way to get those design files for cadence??

 

[eda4you]

Thanks for replyin' but none of these have .13u design, is there a way to get those design files for cadence??

Hi!

If you join a academic programm like NCSU CDK you have access to 0.13µm! Believe me. Look at the MPW schedule list!

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[electronrancher]

I looked, the finest TSMC geometry i see on the mosis runs is 0.15. IBM has a 0.13, but joining a university does not mean you automatically get all PDK's - hence all the work NC has done to make a PDK for the "common man"

The bottom line is - the search is for the professional, multi-100$ PDK. It *may* be around but I don't know where. For the most part, every time I see a PDK floating around, it turns out to be incomplete, bogus, or some "ESD-add-on" or "Advanced metal slotting rules" that really does nothing. Especially for the user that believes they can untar a file then autoroute a 50k gate microcontroller.

ASICK - I would try drawing in a boring process, as I doubt you really plan to go to production with your IC. (And if you do, call TSMC, they'll be happy to send you a PDK if you promise 1000 wafers/month!)
If you want to see in a simulator how this TSMC process "feels", mosis extracts some crude models from every run they make.

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With the help of a spice manual, you can get your circuit running with these and have a pretty good (if only first order) approximation of what your circuit will look like in these low-linewidth processes. (And the answer is: it's fast but Rout sucks)

 

[zhaozenghui]

I just have tsmc.35 download in NCSU!

 

[Johnson]

is NCSU complete and compatible to all Cadence design tools? The reason for this question is the some empty folders in this design kit bundle!

 

[xiaguangme]

i need too. thanks!!