Design Rules & PDK
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MPW #38 SOI 220nm Active
CORNERSTONE users are invited to submit designs to MPW #38 SOI 220nm. The sign-up deadline is Friday 26th June. The mask submission deadline is Wednesday 31st July.
For more information, full design rules and quick reference design rules, please download the CORNERSTONE MPW #38 – 220 nm SOI Call Design Rules documents and the .GDSII template files. To help you comply with the design rules, we offer a downloadable design rule check (DRC) checklist.
CORNERSTONE 38th Call – Design Rules
CORNERSTONE 38th Call – Standard Components
| Design Area [mm2] | 11.47 x 4.9 | 5.5 x 4.9 | 2.5 x 4.9 | 2.5 x 2.5 | Delivery Time ** |
| Access Cost* (Priority) | £61,000 | £36,600 | £18,800 | £10,000 | 26 weeks |
| Access Cost* (Standard) | £48,750 | £29,250 | £15,000 | £8,000 | 36 weeks |
| Staff and students employed at UK Universities (Standard)*** | £0 | £0 | £0 | £0 | 36 weeks |
*Quoted prices are exclusive of VAT, import duties/customs fees, withholding taxes etc. For further information about our pricing options, click here. **The indicated delivery time is subject to possible delays that may occur due to scheduled cleanroom maintenance or unforeseen shutdown periods. Users will receive timely notifications regarding any such occurrences. *** Access costs for staff and students employed at UK Universities is funded under the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) CORNERSTONE 2.5 project (EP/W035995/1). Free-of-charge access is limited to 1 design area per research group.
Get Discount
We encourage users to include the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funded CORNERSTONE (EP/L021129/1) or CORNERSTONE 2 (EP/T019697/1) in the “Funding” section of relevant journal publications. This is crucial for us to demonstrate the impact of the funding.
If you share the digital object identifier (DOI) of your published journal paper that references one of the CORNERSTONE projects, you will receive a 5% discount on the access charges listed in Table 1 for your first paper. For two or more journal papers, you will receive a 10% discount.
Previous Design Rules
MPW #37 SOI 220nm
The sign-up deadline was Friday 29th March.
CORNERSTONE 37th Call – Design Rules
CORNERSTONE 37th Call – Standard Components
CORNERSTONE MPW Run 37 GDSII Template
Ge-on-Si MPW #4
Suspended-si MPW #5
The sign-up deadline was Friday 29th March.
Suspended Si MPW #5 Design Rules
Suspended Si MPW #5 GDS Template
Standard Components Library Suspended Silicon
CORNERSTONE Suspended Si MPW #5 L-Edit DRC
MPW #36 SOI 340nm
MPW #35 SOI 220nm
SiN MPW #7
The sign-up deadline is Friday 1st December 2023
Silicon Nitride MPW #7 Design Rules
Silicon Nitride MPW #7 Quick Reference Design Rules
Silicon Nitride MPW #7 GDS Template
Process Design Kit (PDK)
The CORNERSTONE Process Design Kit (PDK) is accessible through Luceda’s IPKISS software, which requires the appropriate license for usage. To acquire the software and obtain a license key, please reach out to Luceda via their website. When contacting them, make sure to specify that you require a license for CORNERSTONE PDK usage.
It’s important to note that if you already possess a valid IPKISS license, the CORNERSTONE PDK is available to you free of charge.
Open source standard components
The CORNERSTONE platform has a number of open source standard components available for use for each of its platforms.
The documents below detail the standard device dimensions for each platform, as well as measured performance data:
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