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Wow, awesome thanks for the details! I have once or twice on projects added extra gates as fillers in some 28nm mixed-signal designs for metal layer re-work, but I had no idea that…

Modern commercial image sensors are made in process nodes down to 28nm [0], and for visible light have pixels measuring 0.7-1.5 μm. At [0] there a diagram which gives a feel for wh…

Can I ask how often you guys end up doing gate-level netlist ECOs, instead of re-running synthesis when you're close to a deadline? Also, post-fabrication, if a mistake is found, h…

Hey, I'm not a system-level digital designer, but for government-level initiatives to provide 130nm and 65nm fabs for public benefit, yes it exists! From the 2025 Free Silicon Conf…

I work in custom CMOS image sensor design, targeting scientific imaging applications like electron microscopes, X-ray microscopy, and detectors for high-energy physics. Our designs…

You're right that most professional designers historically haven't cared about open source tooling. But this is starting to change, largely because of the recent existence of open …

Yes, actually 180 nm still represents a sizable amount of the market, in terms of volume! In more niche applications where chips contain lots of analog functionlity, you can still …