PHC01 @ SKY130 · 4-core workstation · tape-out ready — PhantasmPhi CPU

Think of the difference between a drawing of a house and a set of plans a builder will actually accept. The single-core kit is the drawing. This edition is the plans. PhantasmPhi PHC01 "PhantomCore" arrives here as four cores at 200 MHz on the SKY130 process, and the words that matter in the name are tape-out ready: the design has been carried past simulation to the point where it can be handed over for a run on that process. It is RTL-proven, so the logic has been exercised and holds, and it is SKY130-mapped, so every piece of that logic already corresponds to something the process knows how to make.

Four cores at that clock is a workstation-class part, and that is the intended home: a desk machine built around a CPU whose entire design you can read, rather than one you take on faith. It is for the engineering buyer who has finished evaluating and wants silicon, for the licensee who wants a small core to build a board around, and for anyone who wants to put PhantomCore in a box on a bench and work with it. The figures behind the part are laid out in the full calculator on the site; this is product number 10327.

What you walk away with is the use of the blueprint for this four-core, tape-out-ready edition. The PhantomCore design itself remains with the inventor, CRI-ONE. You get the right to use it, and the plans a builder will accept.