Free Silicon Foundation<p>The 2025 Free Silicon Conference is over. Slides are online, videos will follow. </p><p>Highlights: <br> * China to open a 55nm PDK in weeks<br> * ChipsJU DET call is open<br> * DE:SIGN + Taiwan partnership (submit pre-proposals by 1 October)<br> * Progress on parasitic extraction<br> * Former CTO of <a href="https://mastodon.f-si.org/tags/cst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CST</span></a> Studio (Peter Thoma) spoke at FSiC<br> * ElemRV: Open-source microcontroller taped in IHP130<br> * Visualization of chips in action: <a href="https://znah.net/tt09/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">znah.net/tt09/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br> <br> <a href="https://mastodon.f-si.org/tags/fsic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FSiC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.f-si.org/tags/silicon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Silicon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.f-si.org/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.f-si.org/tags/ngizero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NGIZero</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.f-si.org/tags/ihp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IHP</span></a></p>