Pranav Matthew Venn’s zero to asic course 100%

zerotoasiccourse.com

Took me like 20 hours, and 'magic' almost drove me completely mad, but I finally got to sculpting at the nanoscale: 2 first analog layouts for the upcoming Tiny Tapeout TT06, and they're LVS clean! Exciting!

Ramiro easy is a relative term but it's very manageable I'd say. If you want to learn the EDA stuff I highly recommend Matthew Venn's zero to asic course

Thanks to efabless.com for sponsoring #TinyTapeout we still have some cheap early bird slots left!

mmm, gold 555! Design by Vincent Fusco and render by Maximo

'I can't tell you how excited I am about the fact that I can tape out some analog circuits for less than $1k now.'

#TinyTapeout 6 closes in 9 days!

Our community slack just hit 500 members! 🪩

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WLCSP is the #ASIC terminology of the week!
zerotoasiccourse.com/terminology/wl…

In the last month, WLCSP has been the 21st most popular out of 42 terms.

Selena Neutrino Experiment’s aSe/CMOS charge sensor pixel array “TopMetalSe” #opensource #ASIC chip design submitted by Xiaochen Ni to MPW6 & more:
github.com/harryxni/TopMe…

Keen on analog open chip design? TinyTapeout.com + ZeroToASICCourse.com can help!
#openASICs

#TinyTapeout 6 might be the first shuttle we sell out!

While waiting for some PCBs to arrive from assembly in China I had some spare time to pick up a project again.
Fully reversed the Colorlight K5+ Board/SOM Pinout. 118 3.3V GPIOs on easy to solder B2B connectors, 8MB SDRAM, ECP5-25 , dual Realtek Gig-E Phys
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To celebrate the show’s fourth birthday, we want to make a series that digs into the resource footprint of AI and asks how much computation is enough. Support on Patreon to help us hit our goal!

Work-in-progress trying to decap a recent chip from Matthew Venn's #tinytapeout

Unfortunately the fill pattern has made it really hard to see much of interest other than the I/O cells and power straps, even w/ good optics. Curious about options for removing the top metal layers!

I was challenged to make a chip from scratch in <2 weeks with no prior experience

Here’s how I’m planning to speed run the entire learning process for chip design & fabrication (suggestions welcome)

1. Prerequisites
> Review circuits physics - (semiconductors, p-n, junctions,…

Interested in what a modern waveform viewer can do? I presented Surfer at OSDA Workshop (Open-Source Design Automation) last week and here is a re-recording of that talk. It even includes an embedded demo!

youtube.com/watch?v=z3Rqzd…

Wafer is the #ASIC terminology of the week!
zerotoasiccourse.com/terminology/wa…

In the last month, Wafer has been the 39th most popular out of 42 terms.

I often get questions about my setup for taking macro shots, so I thought I'd finally do a short thread showing what I use. 🧵

A 555 submitted to #TinyTapeout 06 !
Super cool to see more analog projects coming in.

github.com/vincentfusco/t…

Check out the latest cool projects and videos from your favourite makers at makernews.substack.com/p/march-2024-r… !

Featuring MAYER MAKES 🦆 Becky Stern Chris Greening OSHWA (Open Source Hardware Association) and lots more!

Obviously I think bitluni's silicon rickroll is the best - but I'm biased!