Mixed Signal SoC design Marathon using eSim & SKY130

Submitted by sashirekha on Mon, 09/12/2022 - 12:23
The online Mixed-Signal SoC design Marathon aimed to provide the participants with an open platform and guide them to explore the trending area of mixed signal chip design. This marathon used eSim (an open-source mixed signal simulation engine) and SKY130 (an open-source PDK).  The participants were expected to design Mixed Signal Circuits using the eSim Software and use SKY130 PDK and NgVeri to simulate and analyze their circuits.
 
More than 2,700 people registered for it. More than 300 designs that require quite a bit of work were submitted. From these, 114 circuits were selected as outstanding, excellent, very good and good. The results were announced on 4 Nov. 2022 in a closing function with Prof. Kamakoti Veezhinathan, Director IIT Madras, as the Chief Guest. Details are available through the results tab of https://hackathon.fossee.in/esim/. This is the third marathon in this subject area that the FOSSEE team organised under eSim.

The FOSSEE Team provided a custom made version of eSim for this marathon. It created the website https://hackathon.fossee.in/esim/, and provided the entire logistic support for the conduct of this event. VSD conceptualised this activity, helped conduct workshops, cleared the doubts of the participants, etc. The required SKY130 IPs were created during the past one year under the supervision of VSD. Google provided financial support for this activity.

There were four stages in this marathon: (1) The participants conducted a literature survey and proposed a circuit to be designed (2) Once approved, they designed the circuit using eSim and the SKY130 IPs (3) They created the required documentation (4) The FOSSEE and VSD teams validated the submissions, and announced the results. Students/faculty/professionals from more than 60 institutions, from all over the world, contributed circuits that are selected as Outstanding, Excellent, Very Good and Good, all ready for the tapeout.

For more details, please visit the link https://hackathon.fossee.in/esim/.
Start date of the event: 
Friday, September 9, 2022 to Saturday, October 8, 2022
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