Tiny Tapeout GF 26b · Die T26B on wafer.space Run 2

Car Trip

067 · Retro computing · 1 × 1 tile

by Luke Silva

Rendered from the layout at 0.33 µm per pixel. Layers: NwellDiffusionPolysiliconMetal 1Metal 2Metal 3Metal 4Metal 5Top metalPad openings

Logic density

Core average
logic cells per mm²
34k (45% of buffer maximum)
Densest 0.1 mm square
logic cells per mm²
40k (52% of buffer maximum)
Core covered by logic80%
Transistor density
transistors per mm²
305k average, 321k in the 0.1 mm square with the most logic cells

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

Let's go on a car trip (vga demo)

Size347 × 161 µm (0.056 mm²)
Macrott_um_LukeSilva_cartrip
Filesdocumentation · licence · layout and netlist in Tiny Tapeout GF 26b
Tiles1 × 1 at column 5, row 8 of the tile grid
Mux address67
LanguageVerilog
Clock25.175 MHz
Built withLibreLane 3.0.3, open_pdks 54435919abff
Transistors17,082
Logic cells1,901 + 1,406 filler and tap cells
Libraries 7t-5V (2k)
SRAMNo SRAM

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.

5 V7t-5V standard cells
Gate oxidesThick only (5 V/6 V) in the design itself

Where the area went

How this project's area splits between logic cells, filler and tap cells and other.

80%
12%
  • Logic cells 0.04 mm² (80%)
  • Filler and tap cells 0.01 mm² (12%)
  • Other 4,288 µm² (8%)

Most used cells

The ten standard cells this design uses most.

CellLibraryInstancesWhat it does
nand2_17t-5V 2442-input NAND gate
nor2_17t-5V 1592-input NOR gate
oai21_17t-5V 138OR-AND-Invert compound gate
aoi21_17t-5V 136AND-OR-Invert compound gate
buf_27t-5V 99Buffer (2x drive)
clkinv_17t-5V 92Clock inverter
nand3_17t-5V 833-input NAND gate
oai211_17t-5V 64OR-AND-Invert compound gate
dlyb_17t-5V 63Delay buffer
dffq_17t-5V 58D flip-flop (1 bit storage)

Logic density map

370 logic cells, 3,007 transistors 350 logic cells, 3,061 transistors 311 logic cells, 3,347 transistors 176 logic cells, 1,366 transistors 205 logic cells, 1,737 transistors 199 logic cells, 1,827 transistors 220 logic cells, 1,930 transistors 70 logic cells, 807 transistors Densest SRAM-free 0.1 mm square: 398 logic cells 37k 35k 31k 20k 20k 22k

Logic cells per mm² in each 0.1 mm square of the project (counted in the square, scaled up to a mm²). Hatched outlines are SRAM macros; the red outline is the densest 0.1 mm square that avoids them (40k logic cells per mm²), found by sliding a 0.1 mm square over the project in 20 µm 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.

Want your own design on a chip like this one?

Start with a tile: the next Tiny Tapeout GF180MCU chips take projects until 7 December 2026, for wafer.space Run 3. For a die of your own, wafer.space Run 3 takes orders until 9 December 2026.

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