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Open-Source Analog ASIC Toolchain Installation Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for installing a full-stack, open-source ASIC design toolchain for analog and mixed-signal IC design. The complete flow includes schematic capture, simulation, layout editing, and layout-versus-schematic (LVS) verification, as well as the installation of process design kits (PDKs) such as SkyWater SKY130 and GlobalFoundries GF180MCU.

This toolchain provides an end-to-end environment for ASIC design and verification using only open-source tools.

📋 Table of Contents

1. Prerequisites

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If your running a x64 bit Ubuntu or other Linux and find USB transfers hang at the end apply this fix:

echo $((16*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_bytes
echo $((48*1024*1024)) > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_bytes

I suggest you edit your /etc/rc.local file to make this change persistant across reboots.

sudo nano /etc/rc.local