PHC01 @ SKY130 · bench eval kit · single-core RTL simulation — PhantasmPhi CPU

A chip should be something you can sit down with before anyone pays a foundry to make it. That is what this bench eval kit is for. PhantasmPhi PHC01, the "PhantomCore" CPU, comes here as a single core in simulation: the register-transfer-level design, the same description of the logic a foundry would one day turn into silicon, running on your own computer under a simulator instead of on a wafer. It is RTL-proven, meaning the design has been exercised at that level and holds, and it is SKY130-mapped, so the logic has already been fitted to a real process rather than floating as an idea. One core in simulation is the right size for an engineer who wants to read the design, run it against their own test programs, and form an opinion with nothing at stake but a few evenings.

This is the entry point of the PhantomCore group, product number 10326. It is for the engineering buyer asked to evaluate a CPU core before the company commits to anything larger, for the licensee who wants to see real RTL and not a slide, and for anyone curious whether PhantomCore does what the full calculator on the site says it does.

What you walk away with is the use of the blueprint for this single-core simulation edition. The PhantomCore design itself stays with the inventor, CRI-ONE; you get the right to run it on your bench, and a clear view of the larger editions of the same core once you have seen enough.