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[2025-12-02 5:09 p.m.] polyfractal



[2025-12-02 5:09 p.m.] polyfractal
is that something that could be done in a regular mpw shuttle, or would the fab need to do a dedicated run or something to handle the overlap?


[2025-12-02 10:50 p.m.] mithro_
Depends what you mean by "regular mpw shuttle" - from the foundry point of view the wafer.space shuttle just looks like a production run with full mask set.


[2025-12-03 1:32 a.m.] polyfractal
ah yeah, good point. How does wafer.space structure it then I guess? Each wafer is split into sub-groups of 1000 chips per slot? 

If that's the case, I guess it wouldn't be hard at all to have a design that spans a larger area. Although it could make dicing tricky


[2025-12-03 2:18 a.m.] mithro_
The projects get laid out in a reticle and then the reticle is "shot" onto the wafer X number of times. There was a bunch of discussion about this on the #🏗️-die-sorter channel between @Leo Moser (mole99) who is responsible for the reticle stitching tool and @Andrew Wingate who is doing the robot that will be picking the die from wafers and putting them into tape reels.


[2025-12-03 7:32 a.m.] mole99
This is the current layout of the reticle. You can see that the smaller slot sizes are on the right side and the top.

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[2025-12-03 7:33 a.m.] mole99
Since we cannot do any laser dicing (yet), we cannot split up any of the half slots into quarter slots atm (without cutting the full slots).


[2025-12-03 7:35 a.m.] mole99


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[2025-12-03 7:35 a.m.] mole99
For the second run, we can add another cut here. This increases the number of quarter slots to three and adds another 14 half slots.


[2025-12-03 12:21 p.m.] mithro_
@Leo Moser (mole99) - MY EYES!!! 😝 -- The horrible fluro yellow/green is back! 😛

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[2025-12-03 12:21 p.m.] mole99
Well, that *is* the color of the boundary layer 😄


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