EZ130 8T: 8-Track Library for IHP SG13G2
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Overview
The EZ130 8T library was created by the first cohort of the "VLSI 5: Design of a Standard-Cell Library" course, taught in Spring of 2025. It contains 220 cells designed for the external page IHP 130nm open SG13G2 PDK and a track height of 8 tracks (3.36µm). You can see a list of the available cells and their technical specifications here.
The EZ130 8T library has already been used to tape out more than 10 chips, many of them designed by our students as part of the "VLSI 2" course. EZ130 8T uses 33% lower area and energy than the default standard-cell library distributed with the SG13G2 PDK; more details about this comparison in our external page arXiv paper. So the next time you are taping out with IHP 130nm, make it EZ!
Download
By downloading the EZ130 8T library, you agree to the terms of the external page Apache 2.0 license. The EZ130 8T library is distributed as is.
Download the EZ130 8T v1.1 library: (FILES | DATASHEET)
If you use the EZ130 8T library (or parts of it), then please cite this reference:
@article{castaneda2026ez130t8,
author = {Casta\~neda, Oscar and Recchioni, Lavinia and Senti, Tobias and Cahenzli, Flurin and Ferroni, Marco and Heekenjann, Thorben and Kenter, Robert and Odermatt, Stefan and Richner, Daniel and Altendorfer, Gabriel and Cannone, Davide and Correa, Miguel and Herger, Ivan and Kr\"oger, Lars and Nanzer, Nicolas and Nonaca, Darja and Reinwardt, Christopher and Winklhofer, Lukas and Zelioli, Enrico and Zhang, Yiheng and Zhang, Yingxue and Keller, Domenic and Mirfarshbafan, Seyed Hadi and Jiang, Zerun and Muheim, Beat and Rubino, Arianna and Guichemerre, J\'er\'emy and G\"urkaynak, Frank K. and Studer, Christoph},
title = {An Open-Source Standard-Cell Library for {IHP} 130\,nm Developed by Students},
journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.29965},
month = {September},
year = {2026},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.29965}
}