The tinytapeout-to-radio-chip path now exists

· Adafruit Industries Blog · July 14, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
materials Silicon Manufacturing inductors Open Source Radio Technology silicon design EDA tools
Summary
A university team has successfully designed a frequency-synthesizer core for a 2.4 GHz radio using IHP’s open 130nm BiCMOS process with a completely open-source EDA flow, overcoming trust issues with open models for on-chip spiral inductors, which previously limited open silicon to digital designs.
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