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can you please share what's your NRE cost for 180nm process? Just curious if an opensource asic could be crowd funded?
Sure. Since we're avoiding most EDA tools licensing costs and going for a MPW process through University channels, our costs are in the figures of 120.000CNY for a test run of chips.
EDIT : 120.000 CNY are about 20.000 USD
Cheers.