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Analog Spiking Neuron Circuit - Caravel Submission

This is the Google/EFabless/Skywater Caravel submission of an Analog Spiking Neuron Circuit. The submission also includes a SONOS transistor array.

Neuron circuit

The circuit in the original paper is in 130nm technology and has a vdd of 300mV. Skywater pdk is hybrid 180nm/130nm node where the minimum transistor length is 150nm. As a result vdd needs to be higher in order to get the circuit to work properly. In simulation 700mV seems to work well.

pinout

nodepadnodepad
i_biasmprj_io[13]v_buffmprj_io[22]
vadmprj_io[14]u_buffmprj_io[23]
vrmprj_io[15]a_buffmprj_io[24]
vkmprj_io[16]axon_buffmprj_io[25]
vthmprj_io[17]selmprj_io[26]
vwmprj_io[18]v_synmprj_io[27]
vaumprj_io[19]u_synmprj_io[28]
vsyn0mprj_io[20]a_synmprj_io[29]
vsyn1mprj_io[21]axon_synmprj_io[30]
i_inmprj_io[31]

SONOS array

A 2x2 array of nfet sonos cells with transistor sizing 420nmx150nm.

pinout

nodepad
WL0mprj_io[7]
WL1mprj_io[8]
BL0mprj_io[9]
SL0mprj_io[10]
BL1mprj_io[11]
SL1mprj_io[12]

Installation and Usage

To setup and install the repo for development:

export PDK_ROOT=(Absolute path where PDKs will be installed)
cd $PDK_ROOT
git clone https://github.com/google/skywater-pdk
cd skywater-pdk
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_io/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_pr/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_sc_hd/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_sc_hdll/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_sc_hs/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_sc_ms/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_sc_ls/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_sc_lp/latest
git submodule init libraries/sky130_fd_sc_hvl/latest
git submodule update
make timing
git clone https://github.com/RTimothyEdwards/open_pdks.git
cd open_pdks
./configure --with-sky130-source=$PDK_ROOT/skywater-pdk/libraries --with-sky130-local-path=$PDK_ROOT
cd sky130
make
make install-local

TODO: Finish Install instructions