Just a reminder that the deadline for MPW-7 is this Monday, September 12th at 11:59pm pacific daylight time.
An update has been rolled out to the platform that simplifies the shuttle submission process. The ‘Request’ page has gone away. Everything can now be done from the project detail view. In addition to completing a successful tapeout, you need to provide a shipping address by editing the project using the green icon shown below and then selecting the address tab on the left of the page. You can select a previous provided address or submit a new one.
You also need to accept the terms of service and complete the export agreement and attach it to the chat tab on the project.
Once you’ve completed the tapeout and provided the shipping address, the button to submit the project to the shuttle should be enabled. Select this to submit your project before the deadline.
Note — your project will show Acceptance as Pending until your project is reviewed after the deadline.
Hello everyone,
We are happy to finally announce readiness to resubmit MPW-7 projects. We are asking all project owners who met the original submission deadline to resubmit their projects on the Efabless platform for MPW-7 by December 5th at 11:59 PST.
PROJECT RESUBMISSION
As part of resubmission, please complete the following steps:
Update your project to include verilog/rtl/user_defines.v .
Within this file, you will need to specify the power-on default configuration for each GPIO pad for your project
The configuration determines whether the pad is connected to the user or management area, digital vs analog, input vs output, and pull-up or pull-down resistors for inputs.
Please see the Section - GPIO Configuration 4 of the Caravel User Project documentation for further information.
You can find a copy of user_defines.v here. You need to modify the configuration for each IO based on your project’s IO usage.
Run chip-level static timing analysis for your project integrated in updated Caravel design.
Post-layout static timing analysis has been updated to catch the timing violations seen in MPW-2 silicon.
A new script has been created to run the updated timing analysis flow
Please see the documentation for how to run timing on existing projects ( or Step 4 of the Quickstart documentation for new projects ).
A summary of timing results is provided at the end of the flow.
If you identify a timing issue with your design - please post your issue on the Slack channel #timing-closure and we will provide guidance on options to address timing issues with Openlane.
Rerun mpw_precheck and tapeout on the Efabless platform for your MPW-7 project.
mpw_precheck includes an additional check to verify that user_defines.v has been properly provided for your project.
tapeout will include the updated Caravel design correcting issues found with MPW-2 silicon testing.
PROJECT SELECTION
Projects that complete resubmission by the deadline will be selected based using the lottery process based on their original submission date.
Thank you again for your continued patience, encouragement and support for this program.
-- The Efabless Team
Congratulations on MPW-7 !!!
There were 108 projects and over 73 successful tapeouts. Qualifying projects have been selected using a lottery process. The projects were selected from those that successfully resubmitted their projects to include user_defines.v as well as address any timing issues. Projects selected for the shuttle have been marked on the Efabless platform as ‘Accepted’ on the Shuttle Management page. The next shuttle, MPW-8 is open and ready for those who were not selected on the previous shuttles. Stay tuned for further announcements! Please let us know if you have any questions.