Tiny Tapeout achieves the "impossible": anyone can now design a chip and get it fabricated -- on a feature-rich test board -- for as little as $300. This open source platform, community, and tool set offers a wide range of options to suit any background: from total beginner to seasoned professional; from basic digital to full custom analog and mixed-signal designs.
Click here to buy a ticket for any of the upcoming Tiny Tapeout shuttles.
Efabless sponsors Tiny Tapeout to make this amazing price point and opportunity possible. Your $300 purchase of a ticket (digital token) today unlocks the full potential of Tiny Tapeout...
NOTE: Final submission for fabrication requires a Github account and sharing your design on a public repository.
Free access to design tools for implementing your project, including:
Get one "tile" for your design, offering 160x100um of area; enough for up to 1000 standard cells. Buy more area if you need, at $50 extra per tile.
The chip's external connections are automatically shared through a multiplexer, meaning each design gets access to all of the following connections, all capable of at least 30MHz bandwidth:
PLUS unlock the option for up to 6 analog pins for your design, at different pricing options: Perfect for learning analog design or targeting very-low-volume and very-low-cost prototyping of an analog or mixed-signal design using the fully-featured open source analog design tools supported by Efabless: Xschem for schematic capture; Magic for layout and extraction; Ngspice for simulation; and a number of LVS and other verification options.
Leverage the excellent Tiny Tapeout quick start Digital Design Guide for beginners or the guide to Working with HDLs (such as Verilog) for those experienced with, or wanting to learn, more powerful digital design techniques (including anyone coming from an existing FPGA background).
Get into the Tiny Tapeout Discord community, where you can get friendly expert assistance from an ever-growing group of helpful people... including Tiny Tapeout veterans, strongly-experienced VLSI designers, others starting out and sharing new ideas, and even the creators of Tiny Tapeout themselves.
Gain insights with a digital copy of the whole-chip datasheet that details each of the projects implemented, with instructions on how to test them.
Use Tiny Tapeout guides to see how to get the most out of the test/demo board with its integrated RP2040 (Raspberry Pi Pico) running MicroPython, ready to plug-and-play with your Windows PC, Mac, or Linux environment... or even do it with an amazing new web-based interface to your own hardware!
You get a digital token immediately with your purchase. Start your design straight away if you like. Cash in your token whenever you're ready to make your submission.
Tiny Tapeout is built on the same technology as the Efabless chipIgnite service for amazingly affordable and accessible ASIC fabrication.
Migrating an existing Tiny Tapeout design to a 100-chip run (or large volume production runs) is easy, and it enables you leverage up to the equivalent of 600+ Tiny Tapeout "tiles" (15mm² die area), plus more I/Os and analog pins.
With Efabless chipIgnite you can:
Explore the hundreds of open designs that have already been taped out, and continue to be taped out 4 times per year, on Tiny Tapeout:
Tiny Tapeout is where imagination meets technology, and gets shared with the world. Witness how diverse ideas, from compact CPUs to interactive games, become reality with Tiny Tapeout.
TINY TAPEOUT CHIP DESIGN
Vendor
Matt Venn
System-Level
Free