sky130 gdsfactory PDK 1.0.0
July 2, 2026 · View on GitHub
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"
Installation for users
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.
Installation for contributors
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
Pre-commit hooks are centrally maintained in pdk-ci-workflow-public. make dev fetches the canonical config and installs the git hook.
make dev
Tests
Run the test suite:
make test