Design Enablement
Empowering Innovation Excellence
The SkyWater definition of Design Enablement goes beyond a PDK and an IP book. We think about it more literally as Product Enablement. We approach the task of developing manufacturing processes for customer ideas with an open mind and think about what it will take to explore and develop these ideas into products that can be produced with high quality and at commercial volumes. For many technologies we support these activities with traditional PDKs, IP resources and design partners. For the less mature technologies we think of it as co-creating the future and it’s our Innovation Engineering Services that free customers to pursue their ideas with a Trusted Innovation Partner to support the journey.
Sophisticated Design Tools
- PDK, DDK for 90nm and 130nm design rules
- PDK uses Cadence frontend + Mentor Calibre verification
- TCAD and lithography simulation tools available
Proven IP over Billions of Devices
- I/Os and standard cells for logic synthesis
- Silicon proven IP – billions of devices made
- IP licensing available for 130nm SONOS NVM
- IP ecosystem hosted in XENA cloud
Design and IP Partners
- Linear ASICs: Mixed-signal IP & SoC
- Intrinsix: Mixed-signal, digital, ROICs, SoC
- More coming soon
- 90nm and 130nm recurring MPW FastShuttle program
- Program is ideal way to verify concepts and at low cost
- Factory rebate which brings cost to zero for participating in the MPW FastShuttle program
