A Multi Project Wafer is used to reduce the cost of making an ASIC. By using a lot of different designs on the same wafer the Non Recurring Engineering (NRE) costs of making the mask set are shared between all the participants.

The Google shuttle is an example of an MPW.

Our MPW submissions

So far we have made 4 tapeouts to the Google MPWs:

• MPW1
• MPW2
• MPW3
• MPW4

MPW physical implementation

We sent John McMaster some chips to take a look at from MPW1. Here presented his findings at OpenTapeOut

And you can browse his microphotographed die here

Course feedback

It is immensely helpful to have somebody who has gone through everything and know if something is not documented. You can read all day but you will not get the same out of it, so that was tremendously helpful.

Tommy Thorn (digital course)