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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.

comes up to $20k only for a test run, that is quite reasonable, if that is successful you could well design and do wafer and go for chip productions?

Yes, it's not including engineering costs too, which are in the ballpark of 10.000 USD, and yes, that's the plan, 180nm full wafers are still affordable and we have good funding.

Cheers