Zero to ASIC Course

May 13 2024 38 ep. 1780 mins 38

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Interviews and news from the world of Open Source Silicon, ASICs and Semiconductors

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Rest in peace Z80, long live the open source Z80!

May 13 2024 37 mins

00:00 intro 00:56 z80 04:54 Submitted to TT07 06:52 NMOS 08:22 dynamic memory 10:28 z80 was everything in one chip 12:00 hand layout 14:10 most widely used CPU in the 80s 17:27 Tiny Tapeout compromise 18:56 voltage compatibility 19:58 Fits in 4 TT tiles 21:09 comparison table 22:47 What is Tiny Tapeout 24:28 next steps 26:29 bond pads 28:09 multicore z80 28:59 prici

Analog Philosophy - interview with Nordic’s principal IC scientist Carsten Wulff

Mar 01 2024 30 mins

* Carsten’s background and interest in analog circuit design * Open-source silicon and its benefits vs. challenges * Analog design tools evolution * Obstacles that hinder wider adoption of open-source silicon tools * Advice on approaching an analog design journey

Chips in days with Minimal Fab - An interview with Leo Moser

Feb 14 2024 24 mins

Talking about the minimal fab with Leo Moser. Leo recently won a competition run by minimal fab and had a design fabricated.He's published a few blog posts about it here:About the Minimal Fab: https://mole99.uber.space/2023/Minimal_Fab/About%20Minimal%20Fab%20and%20the%20ICPS%20PDK.html NAND tutorial: https://mole99.uber.space/2024/NAND_tutorial/Design%20of%20a%20NAND%20gate%2

An interview with Ed Conway - Silicon Supply Chains

Jan 24 2024 34 mins

Follow Ed here: https://twitter.com/EdConwaySky Buy his book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo... Sign up to my newsletter here: https://www.zerotoasiccourse.com/news...

September open source silicon news update - Tiny Tapeout, Conferences, Silicon bringup & more!

Sep 05 2023 4 mins

00:00 Intro 00:10 TT boards 00:51 TT04 closes on Friday 8th 01:09 ORConf https://orconf.org/ 01:21 Wuthering Bytes 01:53 FSiC videos released https://peertube.f-si.org/video-chann... 02:04 Hackaday Supercon 2023 02:19 YUG2 https://www.linkedin.com/posts/yosysh... 02:36 Silicon news - MPW3 and 2206 03:37 IHP workshop videos • Introduction FMD-QNC&

Interviews from the Free Silicon Conference, Paris, 2023

Jul 19 2023 21 mins

Interviews with:Luca Alloatti Thomas Benz Jørgen Kragh Jakobsen Thomas Parry Rene Scholz Dan Fritchman Harald Pretl

The MOnSter 6502 - how Eric Schlaepfer built a 6502 processor out of discrete transistors

Jun 12 2023 50 mins

Website: https://monster6502.com/ & visual 6502 http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/index.html Eric's socials: https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS & https://mastodon.social/@tubetime Other interviews: https://theamphour.com/609-open-circuits-with-eric-schlaepfer-and-windell-oskay/ & https://unnamedre.com/episode/58

First chip designed with ChatGPT? An interview with Dr. Hammond Pearce & Jason Blocklove

Jun 12 2023 27 mins

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13243 00:00 Intro 01:21 Hardware security 02:54 How long have they been using AI to generate Verilog 05:26 Methodology 17:40 Humans in the loop 21:21 Some designs already taped out on TinyTapeout 3 26:49 How to contact

Analog ASIC design with digital standard cells!

For TinyTapeout 3, Harald Pretl made an analog temperature sensor out of digital standard cells. In this interview he explains how he did it.

Jeremy Birch on Tiny Tapeout's static timing analysis

Jeremy Birch implemented a custom STA timing setup for Tiny Tapeout 3. In this interview we discuss his background, what we needed the check and the results.