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How would you like a failed crowdfunded project? Cute idea and all, but "Tape-out in November" and "The peripherals like UART, PWM, I2C, etc., still need to be integrated." screams "we have no idea what we're doing".https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1032809991000997889 …
Seriously, this isn't how this works. This isn't how any of this works. You haven't even started validation. Where's the budget for the second spin, since the first one isn't going to work? $22k for an entire campaign to produce a custom ASIC? What?
I love the idea of cheap open-source low-volume ASICs but... that's not a thing, and this certainly isn't how you attempt to get there.
Are there open-source HDLs for many of the components: probably? Is integration easy: almost never.
Even if magically the entire design would be completed tomorrow, they wouldn't make tape-out for November. Chip validation takes a long time.
I'm not an ASIC guy but I have a rough idea of the order of magnitude, and I don't think you could get anything serious done for less than 10x as much money and with a timeline at least a year out from getting chips. And that'd still be on the rather low end of the scale.
$22k is maybe enough for one mosis run of, what, ten dice? *maybe*.
And probably not a run of three-core chips with peripherals, RAM, and 72 I/O.
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