What was built

The chip as a whole: what its projects add up to.

90

Projects

on the chip

86

Open source

with a public repository

2.5M

Transistors

across the unique designs

149k

Logic cells

gates and flip-flops

Counted inside the projects only, so these totals are smaller than the die's own figures on its run's page: the pads, Tiny Tapeout's multiplexer and controller and the fill are left out.

Get this chip, or make your own

Tiny Tapeout puts many small designs on one chip. Start with a tile, then come back with a whole die.

1
Get a Tiny Tapeout chip

Every Tiny Tapeout chip comes on a board you can plug in, with all of its projects ready to try.

Buy a chip and board
2
Put your design on the next one

Tiny Tapeout GF 26c and 26d take projects until 7 December 2026, to be made on wafer.space Run 3.

Submit a project
3
Make a whole chip of your own

When a design outgrows a few tiles, it can have a die to itself on wafer.space Run 3: orders close 9 December 2026.

Reserve a slot

The die

Every design rendered from the layout at the same scale and placed where it sits on the 3.9 × 5.1 mm die. Point at a project to see its name, and select it for its details.Every project is listed further down.

Project sizes

How many tiles each project took. A tile is the smallest piece of a Tiny Tapeout chip you can submit a design to.

1 × 1 tiles65
1 × 2 tiles15
2 × 2 tiles6
3 × 2 tiles2
3 × 4 tiles1
4 × 4 tiles1
Total90

Layout on GitHub

Shuttle status

Two schedules meet here: Tiny Tapeout collects the projects and builds the die, then wafer.space manufactures it on wafer.space Run 2 and ships the parts.

Done so far

  • wafer.space 1 March 2026 Campaign opens Run 2 slots available for purchase on Crowd Supply
  • wafer.space 30 April 2026, 23:59 AoE Early bird deadline Last day to purchase at early bird pricing, for whole-die slots on the run (not Tiny Tapeout projects)
  • Tiny Tapeout 24 June 2026 Tiny Tapeout GF 26b submissions close Last day to submit a project to this Tiny Tapeout shuttle
  • wafer.space 30 June 2026, 23:59 AoE Purchase deadline Final deadline to purchase slots, for whole-die slots on the run (not Tiny Tapeout projects)
  • Tiny Tapeout 4 July 2026 Tiny Tapeout GF 26b tapeout release Tiny Tapeout publishes the die's layout (tapeout-ws2607) and sends it to wafer.space
  • wafer.space 14 July 2026, 23:59 AoE Submission deadline Final deadline to submit clean GDS
  • wafer.space 22 July 2026 Tape-out to GlobalFoundries GDS files delivered to GlobalFoundries for fabrication
  • wafer.space 30 July 2026 Masks released Masks approved and fabrication started
  • wafer.space 17 September 2026 First wafers returned An initial set of wafers back from GlobalFoundries
  • wafer.space 8 October 2026 First wafers diced The initial wafers cut into individual dies

Still to come

  • Today, 24 October 2026
  • wafer.space 22 October 2026 (expected) First dies sorted Dies from the initial wafers picked and sorted by project
  • wafer.space 22 October 2026 (expected) First bare dies shipped Initial bare dies shipped to customers
  • wafer.space 12 November 2026 (expected) First packaged parts shipped Initial chip-on-board packaged parts shipped
  • wafer.space 10 December 2026 (expected) Main wafer lot returned The first full lot of Run 2 wafers back from GlobalFoundries
  • wafer.space 31 December 2026 (expected) Main lot bare dies shipped Bare dies from the main lot shipped to customers
  • wafer.space 15 January 2027 (expected) Last wafer lot returned The rest of the Run 2 wafers back from GlobalFoundries
  • wafer.space 21 January 2027 (expected) Main lot packaged parts shipped Chip-on-board packaged parts from the main lot shipped
  • wafer.space 5 February 2027 (expected) Last lot bare dies shipped Bare dies from the last lot shipped to customers
  • wafer.space 26 February 2027 (expected) Last lot packaged parts shipped Chip-on-board packaged parts from the last lot shipped

Missed this one? Tiny Tapeout GF 26c and 26d take projects until 7 December 2026: submit a project.

From the wafer.space run schedule and the Tiny Tapeout GF 26b repository.

How people used their silicon

Where the area of 90 projects (9 mm² of silicon) actually went

45%
49%
  • Logic cells 45% — gates and flip-flops doing the design's actual work
  • SRAM <1% — memory macros
  • Filler and tap cells 49% — inserted by the tools to keep rows continuous and wells tied
  • Other 6% — routing channels, analog and custom layout, power grid and empty space

Standard cell libraries

The ready-made gate libraries the designs were built from: how many tracks tall each cell is, and the voltage it runs at.

Standard cell libraryLogic cellsShare
7t-5V gf180mcu_fd_sc_mcu7t5v0 147k 98%
AS 7t-3.3V gf180mcu_as_sc_mcu7t3v3 2k 2%

Area budget of every design

Each bar is one project, split the same way as above. Sorted by how much of the project is logic.

Show all 90 projects
613 Simon Says memory game 288 100Mbps Ethernet Accelerator Wrapper 358 Pong 101 AER Reflex Chip - MCP2515 CAN gateway 610 PDM Voice Activity Detector 386 Elemental Harmony Game 549 Detronyx UART Trace Exerciser 517 I2C Slave Template with Emulated Sensor 100 Neuromorphic PUF (distinct-tap LFSR arbiter + memristor XOR, GF180) 103 Music for ASICs 581 Aswarby INT8 MAC 102 wafer.space Logo VGA Screensaver 135 2048 sliding tile puzzle game (VGA) 454 Spiking Neural Network WTA Inference Engine (GF180) 199 100Mbps 3 port Ethernet switch 453 Hardware UTF Encoder/Decoder 545 Quadrature sine generator 096 Asynchronous-AER Spike Router (4-phase REQ/ACK, 16-entry routing table, GF180) 450 Programmable Waveform and PWM Generator 098 CIM Controller with BIST and Fault Map (GF180) 547 Tiny RIng Oscillator PUF 034 Neuromorphic Spike Codec (GF180) 577 SPI-CPU 609 XORing given bits 039 ChaCha20 352 Procedural ASIC 005 spiPWMio 129 CWRU CHIPS Simple Counter with 7-segment Display 611 PolyTrig Digital Waveform Synthesis Core 512 SPI Slave with 8-Register File 614 Nearest Neighbor Interpolation 451 Universal Binary to Segment Decoder 485 Hardware Anomaly Detection 608 7SegmentDice 355 CORDIC sin/cos generator 069 triad01 359 Tremolo guitar pedal ASIC 519 BSD Convolution Adder Tree 578 ECC Scalar Accelerator 389 Traffic Light FSM 196 Fast Authentication Accelerator 032 8-bit Interactive ALU 518 PQC NTT Butterfly Core 357 Three Channel RGB PWM Controller 000 Chip ROM 194 ECC Processor 455 SPI Master Slave Communication 391 fibbonaci_tt 487 Multi-Protocol Communication Controller 514 4 bit Accumulator CPU 001 Tiny Tapeout Factory Test 385 PWM Generator 353 ttgf jct PoC 513 Project 387 WashingMachine_FSM 580 Configurable PWM Generator 516 Programmable Chaotic NLFSR 128 UART_SOC 449 Simple Sprinkler 486 V2X Collision Warning 007 ECC Scalar Multiplication 515 Simple SPI configuration for analog designs 483 AES S-Box Accelerator 480 Configurable 8-bit PWM Generator 481 Secure V2X Mini Demonstrator 579 I2C Master Controller 582 8-bit Comparator 198 TRNG using Ring Oscillator 484 8-bit LFSR Circuit 576 4-bit Maximum-Length LFSR 134 Secure TRNG Entropy Generator 192 ECDSA Verification 132 8-bit WNN Pattern Recognizer 130 Raksha 482 Digital Door Lock 003 TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct-sramrules 065 TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct-5V 583 TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct

Which parts of the process were used

Transistor voltages and optional devices across the 90 designs

Transistor voltages

3.3 V 4
5 V 88

A design counts for a voltage when its standard cells, SRAM or its own transistors use it. 5 V and 6 V transistors share the thick gate oxide; a marker layer in the layout tells them apart.

Optional devices drawn by designers

Not drawn by any design: Native transistors, 10 V LDMOS, MIM capacitors, MOS capacitors, High-resistance poly resistors, Unsalicided poly resistors, Salicided poly resistors, Diffusion resistors, N-well resistors, Metal resistors, Diodes, Well diodes, Deep N-well, Bipolar transistors, Schottky diodes, Zener diodes, eFuses, One-time programmable memory, Inductors.

Only devices outside standard cells, SRAM macros and I/O pads count, since every die has those. A single test structure counts the same as a large block.

Gate oxides

TransistorsDesignsWhich
3.3 V and 5 V/6 V 2 TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct-sramrules, TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct
3.3 V only 2 Detronyx UART Trace Exerciser, Detronyx Arithmetic Lab Tile
5 V/6 V only 86
86 projectsChip ROM, Tiny Tapeout Factory Test, spiPWMio, ECC Scalar Multiplication, 8-bit Interactive ALU, 60 Hz Grid-Forming ASIC with Dump-Load Control, Neuromorphic Spike Codec (GF180), Neural Spike Detector, Lightscan, ChaCha20, TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct-5V, Car Trip, triad01, 4-Neuron LIF Spiking Neural Network, Asynchronous-AER Spike Router (4-phase REQ/ACK, 16-entry routing table, GF180), CIM Controller with BIST and Fault Map (GF180), Neuromorphic PUF (distinct-tap LFSR arbiter + memristor XOR, GF180), AER Reflex Chip - MCP2515 CAN gateway, wafer.space Logo VGA Screensaver, Music for ASICs, UART_SOC, CWRU CHIPS Simple Counter with 7-segment Display, Raksha, 8-bit WNN Pattern Recognizer, Secure TRNG Entropy Generator, 2048 sliding tile puzzle game (VGA), ECDSA Verification, ECC Processor, LEA-128, Fast Authentication Accelerator, TRNG using Ring Oscillator, 100Mbps 3 port Ethernet switch, 100Mbps Ethernet Accelerator Wrapper, ASCON Integrated Crypto Processor, Procedural ASIC, ttgf jct PoC, PWM-Analyser, CORDIC sin/cos generator, Arctic0 16-bit CPU, Three Channel RGB PWM Controller, Pong, Tremolo guitar pedal ASIC, PWM Generator, Elemental Harmony Game, WashingMachine_FSM, Traffic Light FSM, Smerity-Mandelbrot, fibbonaci_tt, Simple Sprinkler, Programmable Waveform and PWM Generator, Universal Binary to Segment Decoder, Hardware UTF Encoder/Decoder, Spiking Neural Network WTA Inference Engine (GF180), SPI Master Slave Communication, Configurable 8-bit PWM Generator, Secure V2X Mini Demonstrator, Digital Door Lock, AES S-Box Accelerator, 8-bit LFSR Circuit, Hardware Anomaly Detection, V2X Collision Warning, Multi-Protocol Communication Controller, SPI Slave with 8-Register File, Project, 4 bit Accumulator CPU, Simple SPI configuration for analog designs, Programmable Chaotic NLFSR, I2C Slave Template with Emulated Sensor, PQC NTT Butterfly Core, BSD Convolution Adder Tree, Quadrature sine generator, Tiny RIng Oscillator PUF, BRISQ, 4-bit Maximum-Length LFSR, SPI-CPU, ECC Scalar Accelerator, I2C Master Controller, Configurable PWM Generator, Aswarby INT8 MAC, 8-bit Comparator, 7SegmentDice, XORing given bits, PDM Voice Activity Detector, PolyTrig Digital Waveform Synthesis Core, Simon Says memory game, Nearest Neighbor Interpolation

3.3 V transistors have the thin gate oxide; 5 V and 6 V ones share the thick one.

What fits on 1 mm² of GF180MCU silicon?

Theoretical maximum against what designers achieved

The maximum packs one cell type edge to edge with no room for wiring. Real designs need the wiring. Each box gives the most of a cell that fits with any GF180MCU library, then with the libraries this chip used.

~114k

Inverters per mm²

GF180MCU maximum,
with AS 7t-3.3V inv_2

With this chip's libraries:

7t-5V: 114k inv_1

AS 7t-3.3V: 114k inv_2

~91k

NAND gates per mm²

GF180MCU maximum,
with 7t-5V nand2_1

With this chip's libraries:

7t-5V: 91k nand2_1

AS 7t-3.3V: 65k nand2_2

~76k

Buffers per mm²

GF180MCU maximum,
with AS 7t-3.3V buff_2

With this chip's libraries:

7t-5V: 76k buf_1

AS 7t-3.3V: 76k buff_2

~17k

Flip-flops per mm²

GF180MCU maximum,
with AS 7t-3.3V dfxtp_2

With this chip's libraries:

7t-5V: 16k dffq_1

AS 7t-3.3V: 17k dfxtp_2

34k

Best core average

logic cells/mm² of core — 45% of the buffer maximum

Car Trip

47k

Densest 0.1 mm square

logic cells per mm² — 61% of the buffer maximum

Tiny RIng Oscillator PUF

21k

Typical project

median logic cells/mm² of core across 36 digital projects (1,000 or more logic cells)

58% of the core covered by logic cells

Percentages compare with the buffer maximum for each design's own library: buffers are among the smallest and most common logic cells, so a design made only of buffers, packed edge to edge with no wiring, would reach 100%.

Sizing your own design

What each tile size held on this chip, and what it would hold at its densities

Logic cells in its digital projects1,000 or more logic cells Logic cells at this chip's density Theoretical maximum, 7t-5V cells
Tiles Size  Core area Projects  Most Median  Typical21k / mm²Best34k / mm² NAND gatesnand2_1Flip-flopsdffq_1
1 × 10.35 × 0.16 mm 0.06 mm²65 1.9k1.3k 1.2k 1.9k 5.1k 880
1 × 20.35 × 0.33 mm 0.12 mm²15 3.3k2.4k 2.5k 3.9k 10.5k 1.8k
2 × 20.71 × 0.33 mm 0.23 mm²6 6.8k5.2k 5.0k 8.0k 21.3k 3.7k
3 × 21.08 × 0.33 mm 0.36 mm²2 8.2k7.5k 7.6k 12.1k 32.5k 5.6k
3 × 41.08 × 0.74 mm 0.80 mm²1 11.7k11.7k 17.0k 27.1k 72.8k 12.6k
4 × 41.44 × 0.74 mm 1.07 mm²1 30.2k30.2k 22.7k 36.2k 97.1k 16.7k

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Core area is the whole project. "Typical" and "best" multiply the core area by this chip's median and best core densities; SRAM and analog blocks take their area out of that. The theoretical maxima fill the core with nothing but that one cell of 7t-5V, the library most used on this chip, edge to edge with no routing.

Pick the tile size your design needs when you submit it to the next Tiny Tapeout chip, by 7 December 2026.

Logic density of every digital design

A digital project here is one with 1,000 or more logic cells. Solid bar: average over the core. Outlined bar: the densest 0.1 mm square outside SRAM, per mm² (a dash where memory covers most of the design). The scale ends at the buffer theoretical maximum (76k cells/mm²). The numbers are core / densest, in logic cells per mm².

Show all 36 digital projects
Every digital project's densities as a table
ProjectTilesLibraryLogic cells Inside core
per mm²
Densest 0.1 mm square
per mm²
Core coveredCore
mm²
Car Trip 067 1 × 17t-5V 1,901 33,946 39,800 80% 0.06*
LEA-128 195 2 × 27t-5V 6,850 29,236 38,300 76% 0.23*
Neural Spike Detector 036 1 × 27t-5V 3,296 28,537 40,700 72% 0.12*
Elemental Harmony Game 386 2 × 27t-5V 6,656 28,408 43,800 60% 0.23*
ASCON Integrated Crypto Processor 295 4 × 47t-5V 30,184 28,326 36,000 83% 1.07*
BRISQ 551 1 × 17t-5V 1,555 27,768 32,600 76% 0.06*
Arctic0 16-bit CPU 356 1 × 27t-5V 3,152 27,290 35,800 79% 0.12*
4-Neuron LIF Spiking Neural Network 071 1 × 17t-5V 1,459 26,054 30,000 77% 0.06*
PWM-Analyser 354 1 × 27t-5V 2,960 25,628 32,700 76% 0.12*
Smerity-Mandelbrot 390 2 × 27t-5V 5,977 25,510 31,700 65% 0.23*
Detronyx Arithmetic Lab Tile 612 1 × 1AS 7t-3.3V 1,427 25,482 32,400 74% 0.06*
60 Hz Grid-Forming ASIC with Dump-Load Control 033 1 × 27t-5V 2,936 25,420 30,300 70% 0.12*
PDM Voice Activity Detector 610 1 × 17t-5V 1,357 24,232 28,600 61% 0.06*
Lightscan 038 1 × 27t-5V 2,796 24,208 29,800 69% 0.12*
Simon Says memory game 613 1 × 17t-5V 1,301 23,232 37,200 64% 0.06*
Pong 358 1 × 27t-5V 2,680 23,203 28,700 63% 0.12*
AER Reflex Chip - MCP2515 CAN gateway 101 3 × 27t-5V 8,164 22,907 28,500 63% 0.36*
Hardware UTF Encoder/Decoder 453 1 × 17t-5V 1,220 21,786 36,100 51% 0.06*
100Mbps Ethernet Accelerator Wrapper 288 1 × 27t-5V 2,406 20,831 26,000 63% 0.12*
Aswarby INT8 MAC 581 1 × 17t-5V 1,146 20,464 28,700 53% 0.06*
Music for ASICs 103 1 × 27t-5V 2,360 20,433 27,800 53% 0.12*
wafer.space Logo VGA Screensaver 102 1 × 27t-5V 2,228 19,290 27,300 53% 0.12*
2048 sliding tile puzzle game (VGA) 135 3 × 27t-5V 6,736 18,900 30,000 53% 0.36*
I2C Slave Template with Emulated Sensor 517 1 × 17t-5V 1,051 18,768 23,100 56% 0.06*
Spiking Neural Network WTA Inference Engine (GF180) 454 2 × 27t-5V 4,367 18,638 28,700 53% 0.23*
Tiny RIng Oscillator PUF 547 1 × 17t-5V 1,039 18,554 46,600 46% 0.06*
Quadrature sine generator 545 1 × 17t-5V 1,017 18,161 27,400 50% 0.06*
Neuromorphic PUF (distinct-tap LFSR arbiter + memristor XOR, GF180) 100 1 × 27t-5V 1,971 17,065 26,500 55% 0.12*
Neuromorphic Spike Codec (GF180) 034 1 × 27t-5V 1,899 16,442 27,600 45% 0.12*
CIM Controller with BIST and Fault Map (GF180) 098 1 × 27t-5V 1,759 15,229 29,300 47% 0.12*
Programmable Waveform and PWM Generator 450 2 × 27t-5V 3,560 15,194 29,000 48% 0.23*
ChaCha20 039 3 × 47t-5V 11,717 14,661 35,300 38% 0.80*
100Mbps 3 port Ethernet switch 199 2 × 27t-5V 3,297 14,072 30,700 52% 0.23*
Asynchronous-AER Spike Router (4-phase REQ/ACK, 16-entry routing table, GF180) 096 1 × 27t-5V 1,594 13,801 23,000 49% 0.12*
Procedural ASIC 352 1 × 27t-5V 1,581 13,688 30,500 37% 0.12*
CWRU CHIPS Simple Counter with 7-segment Display 129 1 × 27t-5V 1,478 12,797 31,500 34% 0.12*

The projects

Every project on this chip: an index, then grouped by what it does. Select one for its layout, its measurements and any die photographs.

Project index

All 90 projects by their address on the chip's multiplexer, with how many tiles each took and how much logic it packs.

AddressProjectAuthorTiles What it isLogic cells Cells per mm²
000 Chip ROM Uri Shaked 1 × 1 Other digital 226 4k
001 Tiny Tapeout Factory Test Tiny Tapeout 1 × 1 Test structures 108 2k
003 TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct-sramrules Staf Verhaegen 1 × 1 Other digital 8 <1k
005 spiPWMio Sönke Appel 1 × 1 Other digital 710 13k
007 ECC Scalar Multiplication Dhanush Kulkarni 1 × 1 Other digital 65 1k
032 8-bit Interactive ALU Matanel Kadosh 1 × 1 RISC-V and CPUs 303 5k
033 60 Hz Grid-Forming ASIC with Dump-Load Control Eric Pearson 1 × 2 Accelerators 2,936 25k
034 Neuromorphic Spike Codec (GF180) Prof. Santhosh Sivasubramani, IIT Delhi 1 × 2 Other digital 1,899 16k
036 Neural Spike Detector Layla Adeli 1 × 2 Accelerators 3,296 29k
038 Lightscan Emilio Perez Juarez 1 × 2 Other digital 2,796 24k
039 ChaCha20 Raphael Eguchi 3 × 4 Security 11,717 15k
065 TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct-5V Staf Verhaegen 1 × 1 Analog and mixed-signal 8 <1k
067 Car Trip Luke Silva 1 × 1 Retro computing 1,901 34k
069 triad01 Duan Yihe 1 × 1 Other digital 402 7k
071 4-Neuron LIF Spiking Neural Network Ilim Stankulov 1 × 1 Accelerators 1,459 26k
096 Asynchronous-AER Spike Router (4-phase REQ/ACK, 16-entry routing table, GF180) Prof. Santhosh Sivasubramani, IIT Delhi 1 × 2 Other digital 1,594 14k
098 CIM Controller with BIST and Fault Map (GF180) Prof. Santhosh Sivasubramani, IIT Delhi 1 × 2 Other digital 1,759 15k
100 Neuromorphic PUF (distinct-tap LFSR arbiter + memristor XOR, GF180) Prof. Santhosh Sivasubramani, IIT Delhi 1 × 2 Security 1,971 17k
101 AER Reflex Chip - MCP2515 CAN gateway khu-haeun 3 × 2 Communications 8,164 23k
102 wafer.space Logo VGA Screensaver Uri Shaked 1 × 2 Art and logos 2,228 19k
103 Music for ASICs d5smith 1 × 2 Other digital 2,360 20k
128 UART_SOC Siri Jagadeesh 1 × 1 Communications 56 1k
129 CWRU CHIPS Simple Counter with 7-segment Display Andrew Chen, John Paul Magbitang 1 × 2 RISC-V and CPUs 1,478 13k
130 Raksha Sinchana 1 × 1 Other digital 16 <1k
132 8-bit WNN Pattern Recognizer Your Name 1 × 1 Accelerators 23 <1k
134 Secure TRNG Entropy Generator Likitha 1 × 1 Other digital 16 <1k
135 2048 sliding tile puzzle game (VGA) Uri Shaked 3 × 2 Games 6,736 19k
192 ECDSA Verification Lyra 1 × 1 Other digital 26 <1k
194 ECC Processor Dhanush Kulkarni 1 × 1 RISC-V and CPUs 183 3k
195 LEA-128 awayzer JCT 2 × 2 Security 6,850 29k
196 Fast Authentication Accelerator Nagaraj 1 × 1 Accelerators 252 5k
198 TRNG using Ring Oscillator Karthik 1 × 1 Other digital 27 <1k
199 100Mbps 3 port Ethernet switch Julia Desmazes 2 × 2 Communications 3,297 14k
288 100Mbps Ethernet Accelerator Wrapper Julia Desmazes 1 × 2 Accelerators 2,406 21k
295 ASCON Integrated Crypto Processor Dr. Mohamed El-Hadedy 4 × 4 Security 30,184 28k
352 Procedural ASIC Conner Daehler 1 × 2 Other digital 1,581 14k
353 ttgf jct PoC awayzer JCT 1 × 1 Security 101 2k
354 PWM-Analyser Pauline Kreis, Muhammad Saim Bilal 1 × 2 Other digital 2,960 26k
355 CORDIC sin/cos generator Jacques Te 1 × 1 Accelerators 434 8k
356 Arctic0 16-bit CPU Einosuke Okazaki 1 × 2 RISC-V and CPUs 3,152 27k
357 Three Channel RGB PWM Controller Aiden Koch 1 × 1 Other digital 191 3k
358 Pong Lukas Hahne 1 × 2 Games 2,680 23k
359 Tremolo guitar pedal ASIC Preston Schuetz 1 × 1 Other digital 356 6k
385 PWM Generator Omar, Nitin 1 × 1 Other digital 118 2k
386 Elemental Harmony Game Aakarshitha Suresh 2 × 2 Games 6,656 28k
387 WashingMachine_FSM Charithma Perera, Kim Luu 1 × 1 Other digital 108 2k
389 Traffic Light FSM Eric Kiecksee 1 × 1 Other digital 296 5k
390 Smerity-Mandelbrot Stephen Merity 2 × 2 FPGA 5,977 26k
391 fibbonaci_tt Jake Sabree 1 × 1 Other digital 150 3k
449 Simple Sprinkler Noah Perez 1 × 1 Other digital 159 3k
450 Programmable Waveform and PWM Generator silicon_nomad 2 × 2 Analog and mixed-signal 3,560 15k
451 Universal Binary to Segment Decoder Rebecca G. Bettencourt 1 × 1 Other digital 606 11k
453 Hardware UTF Encoder/Decoder Rebecca G. Bettencourt 1 × 1 Other digital 1,220 22k
454 Spiking Neural Network WTA Inference Engine (GF180) Prof. Santhosh Sivasubramani, IIT Delhi 2 × 2 Accelerators 4,367 19k
455 SPI Master Slave Communication Nevin Philip 1 × 1 Communications 128 2k
480 Configurable 8-bit PWM Generator Vinuta 1 × 1 Other digital 57 1k
481 Secure V2X Mini Demonstrator Pushkar Kulkarni 1 × 1 Other digital 31 1k
482 Digital Door Lock Rameshwar 1 × 1 Other digital 9 <1k
483 AES S-Box Accelerator Santosh 1 × 1 Accelerators 62 1k
484 8-bit LFSR Circuit Satya Roop Bankuru 1 × 1 Other digital 16 <1k
485 Hardware Anomaly Detection Vinayak 1 × 1 Accelerators 450 8k
486 V2X Collision Warning PM Likhith Kumar 1 × 1 Other digital 115 2k
487 Multi-Protocol Communication Controller Chirantan J Tilavalli 1 × 1 Communications 110 2k
512 SPI Slave with 8-Register File Usha 1 × 1 Other digital 467 8k
513 Project DHR 1 × 1 Other digital 115 2k
514 4 bit Accumulator CPU Darshan 1 × 1 RISC-V and CPUs 101 2k
515 Simple SPI configuration for analog designs Alan G 1 × 1 Analog and mixed-signal 56 1k
516 Programmable Chaotic NLFSR Aishu 1 × 1 Security 82 1k
517 I2C Slave Template with Emulated Sensor Sebastian Budde, Janina Speckmann 1 × 1 First designs 1,051 19k
518 PQC NTT Butterfly Core Aishwarya Gadela & Bojji Reddy Rishika 1 × 1 Other digital 279 5k
519 BSD Convolution Adder Tree Vincent Mertens 1 × 1 Other digital 355 6k
545 Quadrature sine generator Framcesco Osti 1 × 1 Other digital 1,017 18k
547 Tiny RIng Oscillator PUF Manuel Roales 1 × 1 Security 1,039 19k
549 Detronyx UART Trace Exerciser Detronyx contributors 1 × 1 Communications 978 17k
551 BRISQ Poiku 1 × 1 Other digital 1,555 28k
576 4-bit Maximum-Length LFSR Geeta Doddamani 1 × 1 Other digital 21 <1k
577 SPI-CPU MS College of Engineering 1 × 1 RISC-V and CPUs 843 15k
578 ECC Scalar Accelerator PM LIKHITH KUMAR AND PRAJWAL T 1 × 1 Accelerators 325 6k
579 I2C Master Controller Akshaya Institute of Technology 1 × 1 Other digital 46 1k
580 Configurable PWM Generator Shivaranjani GR, Ganesh Ragava, Sidharth Kamalakkannan 1 × 1 Other digital 82 1k
581 Aswarby INT8 MAC Mark Shilton 1 × 1 Other digital 1,146 20k
582 8-bit Comparator Nagaraj 1 × 1 Other digital 57 1k
583 TT-Arrakeen-SPSRAM-direct Staf Verhaegen 1 × 1 Other digital 8 <1k
608 7SegmentDice Jannis Rohleder, Aishwarya Kanade 1 × 1 Games 538 10k
609 XORing given bits Jan Cerny 1 × 1 Other digital 837 15k
610 PDM Voice Activity Detector Kevin 1 × 1 Other digital 1,357 24k
611 PolyTrig Digital Waveform Synthesis Core Saeed Seyedfaraji 1 × 1 Other digital 601 11k
612 Detronyx Arithmetic Lab Tile Detronyx contributors 1 × 1 Other digital 1,427 25k
613 Simon Says memory game Uri Shaked 1 × 1 Games 1,301 23k
614 Nearest Neighbor Interpolation Dan Mangum 1 × 1 Other digital 583 10k

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Designs that grew

Some designs on this chip have been made many times, on earlier and later Tiny Tapeout chips, and several now have a whole die of their own on a wafer.space run. The ringed marker is this chip.

Tiny Tapeout tile Google shuttle wafer.space die this chip
Each marker is one version of the design: hover over it or focus it for details, and select it to open its page. On a phone, the table below lists every one.

As a table

Other digital 47

Show all 47 in Other digital

Accelerators 11

Security 7

RISC-V and CPUs 6

Communications 6

Games 5

Analog and mixed-signal 3

First designs 1

Art and logos 1

FPGA 1

Test structures 1

Retro computing 1

Die T26B on wafer.space Run 2

The die as a whole, measured like every other design on its run: its size, pads, process features, density, precheck and photographs. See every design on wafer.space Run 2

Rendered from the layout at 2.5 µm per pixel. Layers: NwellDiffusionPolysiliconMetal 1Metal 2Metal 3Metal 4Metal 5Top metalPad openings

Logic density

Inside the core
logic cells per mm²
12k (16% of buffer maximum)
over the 12.90 mm² core: what the design itself packed
Inside the seal ring
logic cells per mm²
8k
over all 19.65 mm² of the slot, pad ring included
Densest mm²
logic cells per mm²
25k (32% of buffer maximum)
Core covered by logic35%
Transistor density
transistors per mm²
227k average, 306k in the mm² with the most logic cells

Every figure here is measured from the public layout, the same way for every design on the run: see data and method, and how its designs used the process.

Die3.93 × 5.12 mm (20.1 mm²)
Core area12.90 mm² inside the pad ring
the project template's, 442 µm in from each edge
Inside the seal ring19.65 mm² (the die less its 26 µm seal ring)
Placements1 on the reticle, in slot B3 T26B on the reticle
Bond pads74
Transistors2,927,843
Logic cells155,961 + 329,068 filler and tap cells
Libraries 7t-5V (154k), AS 7t-3.3V (2k)
SRAMcustom layout

Submission

LicenceApache-2.0 declared
Repository: Apache-2.0 in LICENSE — agrees
How it was checked
Commit and PDK pin The licence and template were read from the repository at commit 8c92b24e237f.
Chip-on-boardNot selected at submission
PrecheckPassed the check it was accepted on, 2026-07-04
Passed latest re-run, 2026-08-02, gf180mcu-precheck 1.7.3
step results and logs

Process features

Which parts of the GF180MCU process this design uses: its transistor voltages and where they come from, its gate oxides, and any devices drawn by hand outside the standard cells, SRAM and pads.

3.3 VAS 7t-3.3V standard cells, 38,977 custom transistors
5 V7t-5V standard cells, 7,382 custom transistors
Gate oxidesThin (3.3 V) and thick (5 V/6 V) in the design itself
I/O librarygf180mcu_ocd_io (1140 cells)

Where the area went

How this design's area splits between logic cells, filler and tap cells, other and pad ring.

22%
29%
13%
36%
  • Logic cells 4.47 mm² (22%)
  • Filler and tap cells 5.87 mm² (29%)
  • Other 2.56 mm² (13%)
  • Pad ring 7.22 mm² (36%)

Most used cells

The ten standard cells this design uses most.

CellLibraryInstancesWhat it does
nand2_17t-5V 16,0962-input NAND gate
oai21_17t-5V 9,720OR-AND-Invert compound gate
dffq_17t-5V 9,396D flip-flop (1 bit storage)
nor2_17t-5V 9,3932-input NOR gate
clkinv_17t-5V 9,188Clock inverter
dffrnq_17t-5V 7,995D flip-flop with reset
dlyb_17t-5V 7,963Delay buffer
aoi21_17t-5V 7,798AND-OR-Invert compound gate
buf_27t-5V 5,436Buffer (2x drive)
aoi22_17t-5V 5,356AND-OR-Invert (2x2 inputs)

Logic density map

1,257 logic cells, 61,628 transistors 1,710 logic cells, 97,885 transistors 3,300 logic cells, 110,356 transistors 486 logic cells, 55,023 transistors 8,734 logic cells, 130,374 transistors 13,680 logic cells, 209,751 transistors 13,806 logic cells, 231,732 transistors 6,558 logic cells, 119,577 transistors 6,886 logic cells, 133,590 transistors 8,778 logic cells, 216,966 transistors 12,592 logic cells, 245,692 transistors 6,264 logic cells, 119,120 transistors 10,158 logic cells, 154,200 transistors 17,752 logic cells, 250,258 transistors 11,169 logic cells, 219,954 transistors 5,281 logic cells, 105,116 transistors 7,666 logic cells, 102,496 transistors 11,949 logic cells, 163,436 transistors 6,484 logic cells, 146,562 transistors 1,451 logic cells, 53,281 transistors 0 logic cells, 176 transistors 0 logic cells, 256 transistors 0 logic cells, 255 transistors 0 logic cells, 159 transistors Densest SRAM-free mm²: 24,556 logic cells 1k 2k 3k <1k 9k 14k 14k 7k 7k 9k 13k 6k 10k 18k 11k 5k 8k 12k 6k 1k

Logic cells per mm² in each square millimetre of the die. Hatched outlines are SRAM macros; the red outline is the densest mm² that avoids them (25k logic cells per mm²), found by sliding a 1 mm square over the die in 0.1 mm steps, so it can straddle the fixed squares and find more than any one of them. Squares at the edges are partial, so they read low.

Precheck

Before a design is made, the wafer.space platform checks it against the foundry's design rules. T26B was accepted on this check, and has been checked again since with newer rules.

All 16 steps passed, with 0 KLayout DRC errors, on 2026-07-04.

Every step, and the latest re-run
StepAccepted on
check 335, 2026-07-04, initial
Latest re-run
check 740, 2026-08-02, drc_update, gf180mcu-precheck 1.7.3
PDK open_pdks 1.0.604, LibreLane 5fe3db1
KLayout.ReadLayoutpassedpassed
KLayout.CheckTopLevelpassedpassed
KLayout.CheckSizepassedpassed
KLayout.GenerateIDpassedpassed
KLayout.Renderpassedpassed
KLayout.Densitypassedpassed
Checker.KLayoutDensitypassedpassed
KLayout.ZeroAreaPolygonspassedpassed
Checker.KLayoutZeroAreaPolygonspassedpassed
KLayout.Antennapassedpassed
Checker.KLayoutAntennapassedpassed
Magic.DRCpassedpassed
Checker.MagicDRCadvisory warningadvisory warning
KLayout.DRCpassedpassed
Checker.KLayoutDRCpassedpassed
KLayout.WriteLayoutpassedpassed
KLayout DRC errors00
Magic DRC errors (advisory)42,33642,336
Filessteps · log (gzip)steps · log (gzip)

The steps of the gf180mcu-precheck LibreLane flow, as run by platform.wafer.space. The design was accepted on the newest finished check before it was submitted; later re-runs check the same file with updated rules. KLayout DRC is the sign-off check. Magic DRC is advisory: its count does not stop a design. In the logs, Magic's "Error while reading cell" lines about fill cells are messages from its reader, not check failures.

Data and method

Everything on this page is measured from the public layout; the dates come from the published schedules.

  • Logic cells are standard cell instances, excluding fillers, taps, antenna diodes and tie cells.
  • Transistors are places where gate polysilicon crosses diffusion, not counting dummy fill.
  • Core area is the whole project.
  • Bond pads are the pad openings in the pad ring, or in a second ring of pads inside it for chip-on-board bonding; probe pads are the others, next to the blocks they test. Letters and logos on the pad layer are not pads.
  • Theoretical maximum tiles one cell at its placement boundary with no routing.
  • Densest 0.1 mm square is the best 0.1 mm square anywhere in each die, sliding in 20 µm steps and avoiding SRAM, given per mm².

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