sky130 gdsfactory PDK 1.0.0

SkyWater's SKY130 is a fully open-source 130nm CMOS process (with Google) — no NDA required, widely used for open-source chip design and education.

gdsfactory pdk based on skywater130

Installation

We recommend uv

# On macOS and Linux.
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# On Windows.
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

Use python 3.11, 3.12 or 3.13. We recommend VSCode as an IDE.

uv pip install sky130 --upgrade

Then you need to restart Klayout to make sure the new technology installed appears.

Then you can install with:

git clone https://github.com/gdsfactory/skywater130.git
cd sky130
make install
uv venv --python 3.12
uv sync --extra docs --extra dev

Pre-commit hooks are centrally maintained in pdk-ci-workflow-public. make dev fetches the canonical config and installs the git hook.

make dev

Run the test suite:

make test